Dutch police fire warning shots as COVID riots hit Rotterdam

If antivaxxers want keep going they way they have up to now, it is going to get worse for them, much worse!

The lockdowns are not all that effective and people are sick of them. Japan is doing better than most countries that have had much stricter lockdowns.

Governments need to stop trying to do things that make them look like they are in control for upcoming elections and get a bit more creative.

Suga might not have had much of a plan in Japan, which was quite frustrating but the Japanese mindset of wanting a consensus before taking action meant that we didn't have any horrible knee-jerk policies either.

The Japan constitution also provided the people with some air cover.

Compare that to Australia where the peace-time-created constitution offered no protection to the population from harsh knee-jerk "we are in control" policies that locked them all up.

I guess it's a shame that after seeing a variety of different strategies in different countries that had some successes and failures, we don't see many countries trying to learn from what happened in other places.

Holland is a rogue state.

They really need to start enforcing exercise in these countries to whip high risk folks into better health.

If antivaxxers want keep going they way they have up to now, it is going to get worse for them, much worse

Yeah, trample on the freedoms of your citizens. This is just not going to go down well for society when the governments of nations think that they have the right to smother the rights of their citizens.

Yeah, trample on the freedoms of your citizens. This is just not going to go down well for society when the governments of nations think that they have the right to smother the rights of their citizens.

Brilliant dear sir!!!

Though you should also care for the people falling sick and dying from the virus!!!

Holland is a rogue state.

Sir, you are confusing Russia with Holland.

Russia is a rogue state along with China and N.Korea, that I am sure you will agree with.

Governments need to stop trying to do things that make them look like they are in control for upcoming elections and get a bit more creative.

Curious, what, be 'more creative might include, because appealing to reason has not helped sway the self- pro claimed freedom fighters to try to convince them that the virus is in fact deadly, regardless what their Qanon Shaman and so many other quacks and their media might say. It looks like the anti-government mis anthropic sorts are bent on seeing their nations and societies and economic systems weakened and will continue their missions to negatively affect the lives of as many people as they possibly can in the name of something they call 'freedom which for those in extremist movements seems to mean they can do whatever they want, including further spread deadly diseases.

bass4funkToday  12:07 pm JST

If antivaxxers want keep going they way they have up to now, it is going to get worse for them, much worse

Yeah, trample on the freedoms of your citizens. This is just not going to go down well for society when the governments of nations think that they have the right to smother the rights of their citizens.

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Sir , you have previously mentioned that you don’t care what foreigners think about US.

My Dutch friend tells me she doesn’t care what fringe right wing Americans think about Holland!!!

Sir, you are confusing Russia with Holland.

Russia is a rogue state along with China and N.Korea, that I am sure you will agree with.

Top 3 Rogue States:

Switzerland

Israel

Honorable mention to Germany.

Sir , you have previously mentioned that you don’t care what foreigners think about US.

True.

My Dutch friend tells me she doesn’t care what fringe right wing Americans think about Holland!!!

That's ok, on social media site, we can comment for the most part on what we think.

Top 3 Rogue States:

Switzerland

Israel

USA 

Honorable mention to Germany.

Sir, the depth of your knowledge is just breathtaking!!!

Are these random names or do you have any reasoning behind your assertion.

Adult self restraint seems to be in decreasingly short supply. How would these people handle real hardship? Even with Covid-19 restrictions our first world lives are about a thousand percent better than the lives of the great majority of people on this Earth. There is a global pandemic that has killed millions. The expectation that life is going to be normal right now doesn't seem reasonable. Be patient. It will slowly improve.

@PT, realize there is a big chunk of the right wing that is so disenchanted with their lot in life, so alienated, that they want to burn it all down. Destroy society and government both. That is what we are seeing.

fight for freedom!!

@shortmemories

You're right about lockdowns- they don't work. The strictest lockdowns in the U.S. last winter were in California and New York and both had the largest spikes. And Japan, while not perfect, provided a good roadmap of how to live with COVID.

The Dutch, like many around the world, are tired of the attempts to divide people based on the false narrative that only vaccines can end the pandemic.

If Dutch authorities were truly interested in ending the pandemic, they would follow the lead of Florida, Texas, or India by utilizing one of the many available therapeutics. While all utilized vaccines as a tool, they realized that vaccines alone cannot cure COVID.

And Japan, while not perfect, provided a good roadmap of how to live with COVID.

Yeah, Japan has the highest vaccination rate in the G7 and everyone wears masks everywhere. Food for thought.

You’ve been warned more than once, that your beloved ‘living with the virus’ as well as denying the effectiveness of real lockdowns will lead into nothing else than graves individually and near hell situations in society. Abide and get used to it now and don’t complain everyday about your own wrong choice!

And Japan, while not perfect, provided a good roadmap of how to live with COVID.

Definitely dear sir, 70% of population vaccinated, everyone wears masks....

I am glad you agree that this is the right model.

The Dutch, like many around the world, are tired of the attempts to divide people based on the false narrative that only vaccines can end the pandemic.

A few hundred lunatics is not 'The Dutch', its just that these ones make a lot of noise. Most of the Dutch are happy with their government.

 they would follow the lead of Florida, Texas, or India by utilizing one of the many available therapeutics.

All 3 places you have mentioned were in dire straits a few months ago, no hospital beds available, hundred and thousands dying on a daily basis. Vaccinations have brought the situation under control.

Even if their governments were against vaccinations the people went ahead and got them anyway. That is the kind of defiance we need!!!

Sir, the depth of your knowledge is just breathtaking!!!

Are these random names or do you have any reasoning behind your assertion.

No.1 Switzerland: Capitalism being the root of all evil and Switzerland being the main facilitator of it's most primitive form.

Main facilitator of big organized crime.

Became the home of a very large amount of Nazi loot.

No.2 Israel: apartheid settler state. Al Qaida's air force. Regional lieutenant of No.3 though many people, especially Americans insist it's the other way around.

No.3 USA: Main imperialist power and all that entails.

Spends $billions a year bombing and killing defenless people but can't afford to basic necessities such as health care and accommodation for 10s of millions of it's own citizens.

That's ok, on social media site, we can comment for the most part on what we think.

Wonderful dear sir, your thoughts are indeed valuable to the fringe right wing.

The Dutch don't really care about them!!!

Crazy world out there.

Glad Japan is just chilling.

That's their choice, unvaxed people are not a risk to the vaxed, only to themselves

Though you should also care for the people falling sick and dying from the virus!!!

Warning shots are supposed to go into the air

Damn you, Newton!