Dancing at home
With no festivals this summer due to the Coronavirus, student house Huize Willem (Willem’s House) in Utrecht, the Netherlands, decided to throw their own festival, with the usual intake of some ecstasy pills.
True: Long-term loneliness is as damaging to your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day
In the prominent Dutch early-evening talk show De Wereld Draait Door (The World Keeps on Turning/DWDD) on Friday 20 March Rutger Bregman, historian and author, stated that long-term loneliness is as damaging to your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
Following the numbers
From Aarhus, Denmark, I saw from a distance as a foreigner living abroad how the infections and deaths from COVID-19 rapidly accumulated in the Netherlands. When I returned home and was in the middle of it, the numbers stopped for me.