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Dutch students are preparing for lockdown and so are we.
(We have better alcohol though.)
(We have better alcohol though.)
Because the government leaks worse than a rental apartment faucet, we pretty much know what will be said tonight. https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/12/the-netherlands-faces-lockdown-from-tonight-to-january-19/
Why another lockdown, you might ask, if you've been living under a hunebed?
Well, because it's real, real bad with corona. https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/12/the-netherlands-faces-lockdown-from-tonight-to-january-19/
Well, because it's real, real bad with corona. https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/12/the-netherlands-faces-lockdown-from-tonight-to-january-19/
Also Germany is going into lockdown on the 16th and you gotta stop those cross-border Christmas shoppers somehow!
You can watch the presentation from Prime Minister Mark Rutte on the NOS.
We're doing it for you, so don't bother, but in case you like even more pain in 2020, go for it.
In less painful things, however, there is no question session so we will be unable to make fun of our colleagues for asking questions about football or whatever.
Thankfully it's Rutte making the statement and not Hugo "I get paid by the word" de Jonge so hopefully we'll be done here before the ice cubes in our g&t melt.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte says, almost 9 months ago he had his first speech from his office about corona. He hoped it would be the last.
[9 months later a corona resurgence was born.]
Rutte says that the corona virus is growing faster than they calculated last week. (Did you try using the multiplication function or...?)
"The Netherlands closes," he says. This will be a lockdown for five weeks.
(God who decorated this office? An 87 year old woman from a second hand shop?)
Rutte says to remember the last time: empty roads, empty trains, empty schools. (I DON'T WANT TO REMEMBER THAT IT WAS YOUR JOB TO KEEP US FROM HAVING TO RELIVE IT BUDDY)
