| S.Peelman said: The mayor of Amsterdam is a dumb ****. |
These one off large gathering won't have that much of an effect. It was already noted at the very start that closing large events doesn't have all that much impact. It's a numbers game. 5000 people, only a few infected, won't spread all that much out doors. Of course the ones that do get it will then pass it on to family.
In contrast, opening bars etc up, even with max 30 people, will have a national effect.
Still, not smart to do this, especially not in a hot zone which I assume Amsterdam is (or was). It's not so much getting infected at the event, all these people need to travel there and back, more exposure on the way, crowding public transport driving others closer together as well.
Anyway a rise in the coming weeks is to be expected, yet much more so from schools, bars/restaurants, terraces, cinemas, musea/monuments, cultural institutions, all of your phase 2 changes.
If it goes on for days in multiple cities like in the states, an effect is to be expected.
It's the same here anyway, Toronto protests for Regis Kachinski-Paquet
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/protest-toronto-regis-korchinski-paquet-1.5591745
But it looks to have been a one time protest, I don't see any follow up stories.
The government here says it's ok to protest but asks people to wear masks and use signs and other ways to make noise instead of shouting.
