According to the signatories – including former CPB director Coen Teulings, economics professor Barbara Baarsma and assistant professor of health economics Eline van den Broek-Altenburg – too little attention is paid to the negative consequences of the current policy in which everything is aimed at ‘eradication’. of coronavirus.
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‘Examples of this are late diagnoses that require more severe treatment, with delayed operations and more mortality as a result. In recent months, policy seems to have become increasingly focused on keeping the virus out from all Dutch people, ‘according to the manifesto.
Furthermore, the group of critics says they see an impact on the common good. ‘Such as the increase in unsafe home situations now that people are more often at home, the deterioration of the position of children from underprivileged families who fall further behind due to distance learning, the increase in loneliness among older people who are not allowed to receive visitors in the nursing home (and the fear of this among family members), the increase in workers who lose their jobs and become long-term unemployed and the increase in young people who see their prospects for studies and traineeships deteriorating sharply. ‘
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