Herstel-NL

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Herstel-NL (English: "Recovery-NL", also written as Herstel.NL and Herstel NL) is a Dutch organization that presented a plan in February 2021 to reopen Dutch society instead of continuing the hard lockdown that was introduced in December as a measure to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands. Herstel-NL was created as a result of an April 2020 article by economist and political scientist Robin Fransman [1] [2] about the costs and benefits of the coronavirus crisis measures in the magazine Economisch Statistische Berichten . [3] [4]

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Public call and national public campaign

The organization initially consisted of Fransman and a group of fifteen economists, doctors and other experts, including professors Barbara Baarsma, Ira Helsloot and Coen Teulings, who published a public appeal on 4 December 2020 to achieve better coronavirus policy. The core of the call was a request to the government to have the proposal, a risk-based policy with targeted protection, evaluated by RIVM. Herstel-NL considered the hard lockdown as disproportionate, pointing out that the lockdown itself also caused health damage, not just economic damage. In January it was decided to set up a public campaign after the request to evaluate the plan was rejected. On February 18, 2021, a nationwide campaign was launched with radio spots, billboards and posters, financed by crowdfunding. The slogan was "Er is een plan waarmee Nederland open kan" ("There is a plan with which the Netherlands can open up"). [5] [6] [7] The proposal was supported by the Artsen Covid Collectief ("Doctors' Covid Collective"), a group that claims to represent approximately 1500 doctors. [8]

Criticism

Teulings explained the proposal in the television program Op1  [ nl ], but especially the idea of establishing "safe zones" for vulnerable people did not appeal to everyone. Criticism came from several sides: [9]

A few days after the plans were presented, Teulings announced that he was no longer active for Herstel-NL. Baarsma also quickly withdrew after the criticism. According to the board of Herstel-NL, Teulings and Baarsma resigned due to political pressure, but they themselves deny this. [12]

According to Fransman, it was a misunderstanding that Herstel-NL wanted to "put the elderly in reservations" or "open everything up", and the intention was precisely to find a better balance between the interests of people with vulnerable health on the one hand, and people who were harmed by the lockdown, such as students, shopkeepers and people who work in the catering industry. To make this clearer, another public campaign was launched on 8 March 2021 with new newspaper advertisements and TV spots. [13]

The fate of the founder

On 3 December 2021 Herstel-NL's founder Robin Fransman announced via his Twitter account that he had tested positive for COVID-19. His comment was "Corona positief, Het werd ook een keer tijd" ("Corona positive, It was about time too"). [14] Shortly afterwards, he was admitted to the OLVG hospital in Amsterdam, where he died as a result of the infection on Tuesday, December 28, 2021. Fransman himself did not want to be vaccinated and publicly expressed himself in a very critical way about the effect and desirability of vaccines. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ Fransman, Robin (3 April 2020). "We zullen moeten rekenen aan de kosten en baten van economie en gezondheid". ESB.nu (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  2. ↑ Bokkum, Milo van (29 December 2021). "Robin Fransman was een dwarsdenker die de kosten van de lockdown veel te hoog vond". NRC (in Dutch). Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  3. ↑ "Herstel NL-voorzitter over besluiten van de overheid omtrent coronamaatregelen". www.nporadio2.nl (in Dutch). 2021-05-27. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
  4. ↑ "Dutch vaccine sceptic and anti-lockdown economist dies of Covid aged 53". The National. 29 December 2021. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  5. ↑ "HERSTEL-NL is een oproep om tot beter coronabeleid te komen" (PDF). www.herstel-nl.nl (in Dutch). 3 December 2020. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
  6. ↑ Teulings, Coen; Jacobs, Bas; Baarsma, Barbara; Bal, Roland; Fransman, Robin; Kremer, Jan; Helsloot, Ira; Teulings, Coen; Jacobs, Bas; Baarsma, Barbara; Bal, Roland; Fransman, Robin; Kremer, Jan; Helsloot, Ira (16 December 2020). "Deze lockdown is disproportioneel". www.nrc.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2021-06-28.
  7. ↑ "Herstel NL dacht de sleutel te hebben, maar sloot zichzelf buiten". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). 2021-02-26. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
  8. ↑ "Artsen Collectief steunt plan van Herstel-NL: per 1 maart Nederland weer open". artsencollectief.nl (in Dutch). 2021-02-17. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
  9. ↑ "Op1, seizoen 2, Aflevering 34". www.npostart.nl (in Dutch). 2021-02-18. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
  10. ↑ "Econoom Arnoud Boot over de onrust bij Herstel-NL". Op1 (in Dutch). 2021-02-23. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
  11. ↑ "Letterlijke tekst persconferentie minister-president Rutte en minister De Jonge". www.rijksoverheid.nl (in Dutch). 2021-02-23. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
  12. ↑ "Opgestapte economen Herstel-NL ontkennen onder druk te zijn gezet]". www.ad.nl (in Dutch). 23 February 2021.
  13. ↑ "Herstel-NL geeft strijd tegen lockdown niet op, ondanks turbulente start". www.ad.nl (in Dutch). 2021-03-08. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
  14. ↑ Fransman, Robin (3 December 2021). "Corona positief. Het werd ook een keer tijd". Twitter (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-01-01.
  15. ↑ "Ruben Koops en Jesper Roele - Robin Fransman, vaccinatiescepticus en oprichter Herstel-NL, overleden aan gevolgen coronabesmetting". www.parool.nl (in Dutch). 29 December 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-29.


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