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‘The neighborhood police’ and ‘Family’ actress Dorien Reynaert has written off her frustration about the corona crisis in an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Alexander De Croo. “To avoid overload in care, you simply should have done your job,” she writes. Reynaert talks about a period that was “overshadowed by stress, depression and financial worries”.
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She hesitated for a long time to write the letter, Dorien Reynaert writes in her open letter. The actress from family on The neighborhood police In his own words, it was no longer possible to see how the government is tackling the corona crisis. “I raise a very loud alarm bell, in the first place for my husband, for myself and by extension for everyone who works in the event sector, nightlife & hospitality industry,” she writes. “Because we’re not doing well, and that’s putting it mildly. Not financially, but certainly not mentally.”
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In addition to acting, she also runs an event agency with her husband, Atmosphere Concept Agency, which she believes would get off the ground in 2020 and they would also become parents for the first time. “But all that was overshadowed by stress, depression and financial worries. In the beginning we were still up to date with the slogan ‘Take care of everyone’ and we could more or less resign ourselves to stopping work from one day to the next.”
Empty promises
But in the meantime, according to Reynaert, the slogan ‘Take care of everyone’ has changed to ‘Take care of everyone except for all those who do the job to entertain people’, she writes. “Because here I am at my computer screen, again with a terrifyingly empty agenda for the coming months and with a man who can’t act out of sheer misery. Because it is misery, Mr. De Croo.”
Reynaert talks about “empty promises” and “empty words” and believes that the government has failed to do what is necessary. “To avoid the overload in care, you should have simply done your job,” she writes. “Namely assessing this situation in advance and taking preventive action. How? For a year and a half (!) you have had the time to provide more beds and equipment, to turn empty buildings into pop-up hospitals, to train the unemployed to assist/unburden the nursing staff… Then the care would have now we had more margin and we didn’t have to stop working again and pay for your laxity.”
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So it goes even further. “You have not taken any preventive action but just waited and then it is very easy again to place the responsibility on the citizen and the working person and point the finger and threaten sky-high fines and penalties. As if we (catering & events) hadn’t already paid enough out of our own pockets to invest in safety and clean air and Covid Safe Ticket scanners and extra staff and and and…”
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