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It's not worth the risk. The organising committee has ruled out the event happening this year because of Covid and the risk of creating a super-spreader event.
by Freak_NL 6y ago
It's not worth the risk. The organising committee has ruled out the event happening this year because of Covid and the risk of creating a super-spreader event.
- holoduke 6y agoThere is no risk. Corona hysteria has gone out of hand. Even here on hacker news. Elfstedentocht is a perfect moment to say goodbye to all Corona measures and get back to normal life and accept that the virus is amongst us.
- mcv 6y agoIt would be a shame to overwhelm hospitals and have thousands more die just when the end is within reach through vaccination.
- arp242 6y agoIn a hypothetical alternative universe where there is no vaccine in sight I might agree with this, but now we are just on the cusp of rolling out wide-spread vaccinations. It would waste all of the last years' measures.
- rocqua 6y agoNot quite true. The statement released 14 hours ago says: "het is onder de huidige corona-maatregelen niet mogelijk en niet verantwoord een Elfstedentocht te organiseren." (www.elfstedentocht.frl/geen-elfstedentocht/) Which means that, under the current measures taken by our government, it is not possible, nor responsible to organize an 11 stedentocht. Their main point is that it is not possible to organize the event and get everyone to stick to 1.5 meters. Besides that, they also state they think it would be irresponsible to organize an event that would attract hunderds of thousands of people, and put more pressure on hospitals. Admittedly, that final point would not change if the government decided to grant an exception. But such an exception would be cause to re-evaluate this decision. Since the current rules are such a large part of the justification of this decision.