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The housing crisis in Amsterdam has really gotten out of control.
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Already?!?!??!!? We just did this. I want a raise.
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Press conference about new measures likely on Saturday evening
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Press conference at 19:00 tonight. We're...uh....preparing.
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Hello from the Netherlands, where it is one thousand degrees and every Dutch person who spent all of the year up until this point complaining that the weather is shit is now complaining it is too hot.
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You all know there's a press conference on Friday night right?
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We're getting ready for the press conference tonight.
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We have snow! It may not be much, but it is the first time in a couple of years.
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It's that time, folks. We are sober. We don't want to be here. We don't want to be living during a global pandemic. We really don't want to be staring at the coif of a certain health minister. But here we are.
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The Netherlands faces three weeks of partial lockdown, cafes to close at 7pm
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If you hear a lot of sirens in Amsterdam this evening, don’t worry. It’s the sound of more than 300 ambulances, fire engines and police cars taking 1,500 children with chronic health conditions and their families to the annual KinderBeestFeest at the city’s Artis zoo.
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The lines at Schiphol are no joke.
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Ok we were thinking about live tweeting tonight but then we heard that gyms were going to close and we just can't deal with gym Twitter. (We kid, we kid, we can handle conspiracy Twitter, we can handle the gym folks. Yes, we will be live tweeting.)
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I'm back, baby. There's a press conference tonight, so we're starting the day off like Churchill: whiskey with breakfast.
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Big turnouts today on the Dam.
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The Dutch lockdown is what happens when you order your public health response to a global pandemic from Wish.
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Well it's come to this. We've drank all the good stuff and this is all we've got left. Hopefully we don't go blind before the press conference starts.
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Dutch students are preparing for lockdown and so are we. (We have better alcohol though.)
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We're ready.
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As infections rose again this week, the government agreed to organise a series of mass events for people who are sick of lockdown, so they can get sick with coronavirus instead. That and more on the podcast.
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Police chief Willem Woelders told current affairs programme Nieuwsuur: ‘Things were relatively quiet until 7.30pm, but then all hell broke loose.’
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We're gonna start drinking now to prepare for the live tweeting.
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4 years
Dutch prime minister to hold coronavirus press conference on Tuesday evening
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Too many people don't keep to the measures, Rutte says. (Oh are you saying the southern europeans are better at keeping to the rules?!?!?)
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Are you ready? We are drunk.
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Rutte says legally it is tricky to make mondkapjes obligatory. (Buddy you have had six months to figure this out what have you been doing exactly.)
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The Netherlands is disqualified from Eurovision final
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That's it. We are done. Could this have been an email announcement that was leaked ten hours ago? Yes.
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Thanks, we hate it.
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Coronavirus press conference tonight, ‘test for entry’ system may be dropped
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"The only way out is with vaccinations," de Jonge says. [Super glad we were the last country in Europe to start then.]
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(God who decorated this office? An 87 year old woman from a second hand shop?)
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All set up and ready to go.
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Now, still, he says, 1.2 million people are not vaccinated. At the end of the winter, probably everyone is protected, either by vaccination or from infection. (He didn't go as far as the German politician who added "or dead.")
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Stop ask us to distract you from US elections. No Twitter feed can do that. You need drugs for that. All of them.
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"How disappointing it is to look back and see the opportunities we left behind." [Excuse me I have to go die of rage now.]
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"The final cause is our behavior" Rutte says. (And the fact that there are basically no measures and the government has failed at contact tracing and testing. MINOR DETAILS.)
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There will be expectations. People who are traveling for work but you will need a statement from your employer. You can walk your pet, but alone. [We see you cat owners.]
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(God those shoes are awful.)
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For people who are not a household, a max group of four outside of the house. 4=4 no discussions, unless of course you're a government minister who wants to get married.
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There's a press conference tonight and your loyal live-tweeter had an actual nightmare last night about being smothered to death by piles of ugly shoes. Brace yourselves.
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It's bad enough that people constantly tag us in things we have nothing to do with, but please leave the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador of it. Canadians are very nice.
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@Roxann_Minerals @markrutte @Europarl_EN @DutchNewsNL @dutchdailynews @ContainmentNu Please note that we are the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and not the Netherlands. ^hg
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Over to van Dissel who kinda looks a little like Santa, which I guess means we are all on his naughty list.
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He says it is difficult for them because it is a difficult decision. (Dude your job is to make difficult decisions, feel free to find another job if you're not up for that.)
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Theaters and cinemas can remain open but max seating is 1250. Covid:
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The Prime Minister is unchanged because this is the Netherlands.
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Prime minister Mark Rutte and health minister Hugo de Jonge will outline the latest situation at a press conference this evening.
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"We have to do this together with understanding everyone's opinion," he says. (No you absolutely do not have to consider the opinion of people so disconnected from reality that they think Covid is a hoax for Bill Gates to microchip you.)
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Most corona patients in the hospitals are not vaccinated, he says. Many of these people wouldn't be in the hospital if they were vaccinated. He says this is a "harsh" message. (Dutch directness: ok for insulting your new haircut, not ok for telling you basic health info.)
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(Wear a mask, law or not.)
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We are drinking green tea. We wouldn't wish this experience on anyone, including our ex who broke up with us via Twitter DM and STILL WATCHES OUR INSTAGRAM STORIES.
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Two weeks ago, everything was greent. The choice to reduce measures was "logical" he says. (Counter point: It wasn't logical and plenty of people said this.)
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Yes, there's a press conference tonight at 19:00. Yes, we will be live tweeting.
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Cafes and bars face closure, says RTL. New measures to be confirmed Tuesday night
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"Everyone needs gezelligheid," he says. (You know what everyone needs more? Lung capacity.)
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In your house it is a max of three people per day. No rotating birthday parties Dutch people. WE SEE YOU.
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So yes, we will be live tweeting from tonight's presser tonight, but our regular tweeter is in rehab on an island somewhere. So you get the boring, sensible one instead.
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Here's the thing. The Dutch are using "lockdown" the same way they use "party." They think it's a lockdown, everyone else thinks it's coming up short.
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For those of you for whom this is your first time at a corona press conference live-tweeting therapy session drinking game, we do the dumb jokes on Twitter and immediately afterward my VERY SERIOUS™ colleagues publish a VERY SERIOUS™ article with all the VERY SERIOUS™ info.
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Rutte says it will be a "sober" Christmas. (Metaphoically. Literally, we will be drinking a lot.)
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Cafes and restaurants will close, also terraces and coffeeshops (please send us photos of the line out the door from the coffeeshops again please)
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Good luck if you're heading out for the first King's Day celebrations in two years. (And enjoy avoiding the crowds if you stay home.)
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"I understand that it feels like "here we go again,"'" he says. (THAT'S BECAUSE THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS. IT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE IT, IT IS IT.)
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It is up to us, Rutte says. (It is also up to the government to set rules that help but don't tell him that.)
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The measures will start tomorrow at 10PM so while corona takes a break you can go to the bar tonight.
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Everyone over the age of 18 will get an invitation by Jan 7. (An invitation! Please let me remind you that Belgium has been giving boosters for everyone over 18 since November.)
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THE MOMENT EVERYONE HAS BEEN WAITING FOR: MONDKAPJES Oh wait they still can't figure out how to do this legally so no mondkapjes but you really should wear them Rutte says.
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(How can you have regional measures in a country that is basically an overgrown metro area in any reasonable country?)
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The Dutch are very fond of international comparisons if they come out well, but when it comes to coronavirus, they see the Netherlands’ position as one of ‘superior failure’, writes @bencoates1 .
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"We cannot go without healthcare," Kuipers says, "but we cannot go without each other." (Speak for yourself buddy, I can live without the vast majority of you.)
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Rutte says they have difficult news. (This has real you're 12 and your parents are telling you they are getting divorced vibes.)
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Deeply mad about this ruining my Saturday evening.
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Thinking about making a really ugly cocktail and calling it Hugo's Shoes.
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We see everyone else complaining so we've decided to start our own Twitter thread dedicated to all of the travel headaches the Dutch News crew experiences this summer.
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Now over to Hugo de Jonge, whose shoes are exceptionally ugly today.
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This kinda sorta lockdown will go on for four weeks. They will evaluate in two weeks. If it's not going well after two weeks, we will go into a full lockdown. (What happens then? They close grocery stores an hour earlier?)
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"We know what we have to do," he says.
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And if you hate our tweets...why are you here?
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"Good evening," says Prime Minister Mark Rutte. (This is a lie, it is not good.)
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(CRAZY IDEA: Make the behavior required)
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The numbers didn't go down fast enough AND we have to deal with the British variant. (Sure, blame the British. It's bad enough you're stealing their sandwiches and their leader has worse hair than Hugo.)
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Second question: Mondkapjes - will they be required and when? Rutte says they have talked a lot about it. (Oh great, this is like me trying to decide what vacuum cleaner to buy. I talked about it a lot and am still using the same one I have had for ten years.)
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Can you explain why you close museums but not shops? (Finally a good and useful question) They want to decrease the amount of contacts and travel, Rutte says, clearly a person who hasn't been in an Ikea in the last two weeks.
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The R is 1.3 and that's the same as two weeks ago. (PERHAPS BECAUSE CLOSING THE BARS TWO HOURS EARLY ISN'T A MEASURE?!?!)
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Also there's gonna be a PowerPoint and honestly, I do not care how much money I am offered, I am quitting on the spot, moving to another country, changing my name and never using the internet again if a single word in that presentation is in Comic Sans.
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Happy New Year!
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We go now to Hugo de Jonge, whose beard appears to be smuggling in the new B.1.1.529 variant.
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(Fuck this fucking roadmap.) (You can fire me for the swearing, I no longer care!!!!!!!!!!)
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Rutte says that he wants to "stress our enormous support for people in education." (So long as that support doesn't involve paying them more money.)
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Rutte says, he doesn't think so, it was a logical decision. "We assumed that cases would rise." (I'm sorry I am dead, I have been murdered by absurdity.)
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FOLLOW UP QUESTION (GIVE THIS LADY A PRIZE): Oh so Dutch people keep to the rules less? Rutte says: I won't do a social analysis.
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Max 75 people in groups at higher education. Covid, again:
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Usual rules apply: Starts at 19:00 Bring your beverage of choice (or nine of them, we don't judge.) Contractual obligation to make fun of Hugo's hair four times per press conference.
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It's a mess. You are responsible. Can you remain? (SOMEONE GIVE THIS MAN A PRIZE)
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Now over to health minister Hugo de Jonge who looks like he is ready for another job, any other job.
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A question about rapid testing. "What about countries who are not as well prepared as us?" [The Netherlands....? Well prepared?]
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