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About Fresh Air


Fresh Air is an American radio talk show broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the United States since 1985. It is produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The show's host is Terry Gross. As of 2017, the show was syndicated to 624 stations and claimed nearly 5 million listeners.

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the trams are all empty, but under the Dutch lockdown, not everything is closed

in The Netherlands, has sought the adoption of a "smart lockdown", but the infection spreads fast, and it has one of The World 's highest mortality rates from the pandemic.

The Dutch have also been accused, to show it is a failure of solidarity with the countries in the South of Europe, most of coronavirus.

So, what are try the Dutch to reach, and how has responded to the troubled Italy?

What is a "smart lockdown'?

The low countries began among The Few who, by embracing open to the controversial idea of group or herd immunity. It is an approach characterised by a Dutch global health expert-cold and calculated.

With the shunned, the more stringent measures of the neighbouring countries pursued by the government in a "smart" or "targeted" lockdown. It wants to alleviate The Social , economic and psychological costs of social isolation and make the eventual return to normality more manageable.

bakeries can still be in operation, but The Beaches are all empty

My local florist, blacksmith, deli, bakery and the toy, are still serve customers. Poster on The Door with tape on The Floor to encourage People to give each Other Space . The employees at the cash registers wearing surgical gloves.

Only those companies that were forced to touch, such as hairdressers, beauticians and red-light brothels, cease trading.

schools, kindergartens and universities are closed until at least 28. April .

Children 's day-care centres are largely closed, except for employees, which are closed in the main professions

Bars, restaurants, and cannabis cafes, although they seem to be doing a roaring Trade In take-aways.

"we think we are cool-headed," explains Dr. Louise van Schaik of the Clingendael Institute for International Relations . "We don't want to overreact to Lock Up all of them in their homes. And it is not easier for the generations here, because grandma and grandpa live with their Children At Home . "

People have been advised to stay At Home , but you can't go, if you are able to work At Home , or have to grab food or Fresh Air , so long as you keep 1. 5m (5ft) social distance.

It helps that the Dutch seem to be largely compatible. A survey suggested that 99% of People keep Their Distance , and 93% remained At Home as much as possible.

Prime Minister , Mark Rutte , designated the Netherlands as a "grown-up country". "What I Hear around me, is that People are glad that they are treated like adults, not like Children ," He Said on Friday.

Sometimes feels lockdown invisible. Cities may be quieter, but the Children are climbing on climbing frames and young People to cycle side-by-side.

Like the Dutchman went through the UK on the immunity of the herd

When the UK's chief scientific adviser discloses to develop a plan that a broad immunity in the population, within a few days, researchers revealed, it could claim a quarter of A Million People , and the United Kingdom changed course.

Allows you to spread a deadly virus, in the company a degree of immunity implicitly means accepting, People die.

It was first adopted by the Dutch government, but then quickly repackaged as a useful by-product rather than the goal.

In a televised speech to The Nation on 16 March,

"We delay the spread of The Virus and at the same time Build Up the immunization of the population in a controlled way," He Said .

Dutch governmentThe larger The Group , acquires immunity, the smaller is the chance that The Virus made The Leap to make, to vulnerable older People or People with underlying health issue, Mark Rutte ,
Prime Minister of the Netherlands, 16 March 2020

"We have found that it can take months, or even longer, to Build Up the immunity of The Group , and during this time, we need to a shield of the People in greater danger, as much as possible. "

Prof Claes de Vreese of the University of Amsterdam believes that the British government, no measures for such a policy. "It dangle left People , and feeling like you are part of a bizarre social experiment," he says.

Can this work?

Dutch Public Health agency RIVM has commissioned a study to see how far the anti-bodies are created when People are exposed to, to remain effective in the prevention of re-infection.

"It's kind of like creating your own internal vaccine is exposed to it, And Then let your body produce the antibodies, of course, to transform into a vaccine that does not yet exist," Prof Aura Timen from the RIVM told The Bbc .

she stressed, they were still do everything she could to slow down the pace of the transfer of Covid-19 to "flatten the Curve ".

Covid-19 deaths in the nether land of deaths reported 16. March to 4 April source: RIVM,

the problem is that The Number of deaths in the Netherlands seems to be relatively high for a population of 17. 2 million. But in neighboring Belgium, has to pay a smaller population and more stringent lockdown, is also high.

Prof Timen believes that The High number in the Netherlands to the effective reporting: "We have a good reporting system for People who become infected have been in the hospital, but also for the death. "

reality is as the deaths

in The Netherlands, creep is the increase in the hospital capacity, with The Peak of The Crisis , expected in Two Weeks , and deaths as high as 175 in a period of 24 hours. Some of 1,650 People have died since The Crisis began, and over 6,600 were admitted to the hospital.

Some of the patients were transferred to Germany, in order to free beds, and the event centre Ahoy Rotterdam concert hall, which actually host the Eurovision 2020, is an emergency device.

There are plans to quadruple The Number of tests and the health workers not directly involved in the treatment of coronavirus patients will also be examined.

But there were setbacks.

If A Million masks were delivered from China as faulty, it was the government that urgent Recall .

Artist Laurie Schram to place in Fantastic running, a team of volunteers to sew masks

There is a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), so that the students in Delft are working on the conversion for a swim, Snorkelling in the surgical masks and local artists space Fantastic collecting fabric donations and running a legion of volunteers frantically sewing masks for those at The Front .

such As the Dutch wrath of the Italians

The Dutch are largely pro-European, so that, when a letter from prominent Italians in a German paper condemned for a "lack of ethics and solidarity in every respect," the engraved words.

The Italian letter published in a German paper condemned a lack of the Dutch solidarity and ethics

The Netherlands and Germany led the opposition to the relief of The Debt burden of the southern European countries by the granting of "corona bonds".

Both countries are paying more into the EU than they receive, but this "scroogy", arrogant Dutch approach was destined to backfire, says global health lecturer Remco van de Pas, of the University of Maastricht.

What's more, it can be self-defeating.

"When the whole of the South-Said to collapse, to exist the rich North stop", such as the Dutch National Bank ex-President Nout Wellink casually.

The low countries rely on other EU States by buying their exports, says Prof Claes de Vreese.

"We have a common interest, Bouncing from which it holds in economic terms, in a way, that The Union and The Euro in a Strong Place . "

Then a shot from the Dutch Minister of Finance came up. Yes, the Netherlands' first response, the Empathy was missing.

Getty Images " We were not sensitive enough to The Point that he has raised, the resistance. We had no success in mediation, what it is, we want to Hoekstra doWopke.
Dutch Minister of Finance

Prime Minister Rutte proposes an EU emergency Fund to cover the direct medical costs of The Crisis , with the contributions from the member States. "It would not be used as a credit or guarantee, but as A Gift to People in need. "

her hand was forced.

"The Dutch have benefited enormously from the European Union , its open labour market and mobility," Dr. Van de Pas has Said it to me.

But the idea of an intelligent lockdown, driven by facts and figures, is very different from the stricter approach in neighboring Belgium, where deaths have also been high.



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Source of news: bbc.com

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