| S.Peelman said: It's not like they're not tracking anything, they'll just won't report daily anymore. The government will obviously know if on any given Thursday shit hits the fan, they don't have to wait until the next Tuesday. We'll live. |
True, it won't turn around / accelerate that quickly anyway, yet you think China wouldn't have gotten any flack about switching to weekly updates not long after getting below 100 cases per day. Just kinda odd when transparency is the only way to keep people's confidence in the government up nowadays. Cancelling the daily press conference is expected yet how hard is it to just stick the numbers in a publicly accessible database.
Quebec wanted to switch to 3 day reporting here after getting where the Netherlands is/was and got immediately called out for it and is now back to daily reporting. In fact they were the only ones to report on the national holiday together with Nova Scotia (reported 1 case)
Anyway I never thought highly of the Dutch government's transparency. I lived in Amsterdam during the Bijlmer disaster (El Al plane crash) and whether or not anything 'fishy' was going on, the government left way too much room for conspiracy theories and paranoia to surface.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/20-years-on-el-al-crash-in-amsterdam-still-spawns-conspiracy-theories/
As well as the fuck up with Dutchbat in Sarajevo, the Sabrenica massacre.
(I left a few months after the assasination of Pim Fortyun)
Just a little background why I'm a bit wary of the Dutch government :)
