Corona in Tilburg

Overview March 2 - April 2

(opinion/blog) Thursday evening Feb 19 I was at a veterans meeting, there were already some carnival parties in the center. The parade would be Sunday Feb 22 but suddenly 200 parades were canceled due strong winds. I joked about how maybe it was because of the virus. Feb 25, first patient was registered. The days before he celebrated carnival in Tilburg and Loon op Zand. At this moment the virus was seen as "not very contagious" and "not easily transmitted from human to human" by RIVM, National Institute of Public Health and Environment and also by National Coordination Center for Infectious Disease Control. RIVM said, the three patients were not contagious during carnival.Yes. Well, we know what happened next. If we might die out, I just realized, aliens will discover in two light years, that while we did, we wrote hundreds of thousands of surveys, reports, posts, and articles cause we had to work from home. Right. Clever, that script by governments.

March 18 - Some ask me, whether I am afraid of the virus. Maybe I worry when a virus actively can spread trough water or air. No, I'm not scared by numbers, that are never accurate, or just as the medical services, are lagging behind. And I will not be frightened by how some media exaggerates or misrepresent dangers and deaths. As result, citizens have panicked and bought everything in the shops. Governments are even prepared for looting. As I said, some people have become really frightened by media. I'm not petrified of being out of toilet paper or food. And I am not afraid, of the news. If an institute publishes 1 press report, dozens of sites take over and that makes everything 100 times worse. No, what doesn't even really keeps me awake is the intens way, people are disinfecting everything. Did they not just tell us, you can not escape this virus ?. This could well be the start of a (another) new generation of resistant bacteria - which really could be dangerous. Maybe some glyphosate can kill this virus. Where am I ?. LockDown or Locking people up ? Always, in this case not a solution. Patients were locked up at home in the fight against TB. Later it became clear that fresh air and physical exercise, 2x p/day to keep lungs clean, were deciding factor in treatment. No. what didn't struck me at all, past weeks, is how scared people are, to get sick. Welcome to the world of the chronically ill. Some of us have lived like this for years. Most of our disorders are inflammatory.