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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoKalsbeek" data-source="post: 2309234" data-attributes="member: 401801"><a href="https://coronadashboard.government.nl/" target="_blank">https://coronadashboard.government.nl/</a> gives you the relevant numbers. I'm currently in a phase 2 area. Most people who catch it now are students. It's spreading rather rapidly in student housing in the big cities (Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Utrecht etc), and especially when the introduction weeks started and there was plenty of booze and a lot of no-distance-observing. These people don't get as sick as the more vulnerable ones, but as their numbers rise, well... In three weeks, if things don't change, we'll be looking at 10.000 cases diagnosed a day. Not that the labs can keep up, as it is. (Mind you, there's 17 million people in the Netherlands. We're small.). So while infections are up, hospitalisations and deaths aren't as bad as they were at the beginning of the outbreak, as that included a lot of care homes and such, where deaths were frequent. Those people are mostly still fairly shielded now. The odds those students infect others though... They don't seem to exactly care, as they don't get as sick, as a rule. Never mind their (grand-) parents and other family members, or people at a super market, or... You get the idea. It's spreading amongst the Typhoid Mary's right now. the ones that don't get hospitalised but happily spread it everywhere. They won't get much harm from it. Others, however, will, if numbers continue to rise as they are. Basically, people are idiots. "I can't go to school because I had a corona test and don't have the results yet, so I'm hitting the town this afternoon for lunch with mum and some fun!", was one of the posts online that went viral. That's the level of idiocy we have to deal with here. (And really, these are the people smart enough to go to university?!)I am bad with numbers. I'm really good with anxiety though. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />Jo</blockquote>

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