The petition from employees of the Amphia Hospital in Breda against the arrival of the 538 Orange Day party was signed 100,000 times within 24 hours. The milestone was reached just before nine o’clock Sunday morning. Around three o’clock Sunday afternoon, the counter was already at 170,000 signatories. Surgeon Rogier Crolla, initiator of the petition, said on Sunday that he was ‘very surprised by the overwhelming attention’.
“The success of this petition and all the media attention shows how much this is living in the Netherlands and how people think about it,” he wrote in a statement. “I don’t want to take away from the audience, the artists and their party, I don’t want to set up groups against each other, but I want to say that this is not the right time and the right time and that the priorities have to be different,” he continues . “Vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate and sail one course. That is better for our health and for the economy.”
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The enormous interest in the petition against the celebration of the 538th Orange Day in Breda led to overload on petities.nl on Sunday. The site is regularly closed due to crowds, a spokesperson reports.
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Surgeon initiative
Met the petition care workers want to get the event to be canceled on April 24. They are campaigning under the motto: ‘Ten thousand partygoers with 538 on the Chassé field: a blow in the face of the care providers in the hospital 400 meters away. Stop this event! ‘.
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“A clearer signal from healthcare cannot be given”, Nardo van der Meer, chairman of the board of the Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven, responds to the enormous support for the petition. “Large meetings on trial? Not a good idea for several reasons,” he says.
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10,000 visitors may be present at the music station’s Fieldlab experiment. Interest in the event was enormous: more than a million people tried to get a ticket. The cards were distributed by draw.
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Hospitality furious
Catering entrepreneurs in the city previously reacted furiously to the test event. They felt insulted that a major event is allowed in the city, while they have not been allowed to receive guests for months due to the corona measures.
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On Monday there will be an extra meeting in which mayor Paul Depla of Breda has to give a text and explanation to the city council about the event.
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