It is not a good message that Prime Minister Mark Rutte aimed his arrows at young people in our country on Thursday evening. Millennial expert Talitha Muusse thinks that. Bee Heart of the Netherlands she says she is “very disappointed” at the press conference.
In the speech, the Prime Minister and Minister Hugo de Jonge of Health focused on young people, because the number of infections with the coronavirus among that group is rising sharply. The cabinet is afraid of a new, “dangerous” advance of the virus.
‘Wrong message’
“It was said literally during the press conference: too many young people ignore the rules,” Muusse noticed. “It was also getting worse, according to Rutte and De Jonge, young people don’t stick to anything.” She finds it crooked that the cabinet picks out young people. “At the beginning of the corona crisis, we did not say either: it is the elderly who cause the infections.”
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According to the 28-year-old generation expert, the cabinet is sending the wrong message to the young generation. “I think that when your message is ‘together’ and ‘putting on the shoulders and a little more discipline’, you shouldn’t take one group out and put the blame there.” Muusse points out that there are 259 fires. “Tell me how many of them are people under the age of 25.”
Young people ignore 1.5 meters
Research from What does the Netherlands think turned out earlier that one spaciousness of people under thirty do not follow the rule to keep a meter and a half away. The young people indicate this themselves. Muusse is not yet familiar with that research and states that all generations are less adherent to the corona measure.
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Nevertheless, the conscious research gives a different picture. People aged fifty or older still adhere massively (76 percent) to the imposed measure. Just over half of people aged between thirty and fifty say they do so.
Many social contacts
According to immunologist Ger Rijkers (1952), the big difference between young people and the elderly is that young people have much more social contacts. “It is of course a bit in young people that they want to do fun things when summer comes,” he added Heart of the Netherlands.
That makes contact research a lot more difficult, he thinks. “If you have had seventy contacts, it is very difficult to find out who all that was. And that also takes a long time. ” Millennial expert Muusse believes that the cabinet should put its hand into its own bosom. “RIVM and the cabinet have caused confusion with very contradictory measures.”
She also blames them for lack of openness in the risk assessment of measures for young people. “They can hardly get seriously ill and die. If the risk for them is so small, it is very much in demand to significantly limit the entire social traffic for them. ”
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