Exceptions
For people who cannot wear a mouth mask due to a disability or chronic illness, an exception to the mouth mask applies. It concerns, for example, people with a motor or physical abnormality, an intellectual disability, anxiety disorder, hyperventilation or PTSD.
It is up to the people themselves to demonstrate that the exception applies to them. That is something that interest group Everyone (in) worries about. “There would be a pass, as in Australia and England, but the Justice Department did not want that because it would be susceptible to fraud. Now the burden of proof lies with people themselves,” said director Illya Soffer in the report. NOS Radio 1 News. “So you will soon have to show the greengrocer your medicines or your prosthesis.”
Soffer emphasizes that it is very unpleasant for people to have to tell them all day long that they have a disability. And having a medical statement drawn up is also not easy. “An independent doctor has to co-prepare this and it costs money,” says Soffer. “You drive people up costs with that. That cannot be the intention.”
According to Elke (in), there are approximately 1.5 million people in the Netherlands who cannot wear a mouth mask due to a disease or condition.
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