At the Dappermarkt in Amsterdam, Lemar says that he has not been vaccinated out of conviction. “It doesn’t feel healthy for me to take that syringe.” He experiences that the pressure from the cabinet to have you vaccinated, for example by means of a corona admission ticket, is increasing. “It feels to me as if it is forced indirectly anyway. It is made very difficult for you.”
Still, that won’t change his decision. “If you want to be different, you have to be strong,” said the Amsterdam twenty-something. And don’t go out, he will keep that up for a while. “I haven’t been to all those things in the past 1.5 years, so if it takes a little longer, then so be it.”
stay at home
The unvaccinated Stefanie also has great difficulty with the cabinet’s intention. “I have a bit of trouble with the fact that in the Netherlands we always pretend that it is a free country. And it is still presented as if it is a free choice, but in fact it means that you should always stay at home”
Although she does not like it, she does not rule out the possibility of getting vaccinated. “The reasons I don’t want it are for medical reasons, because I’ve been through quite a lot. But I’m starting to doubt now: should it be? But that’s not how it should be, because I don’t want it .”
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