Dutch Protest Against Vaccine Passports

Demonstrations against vaccine passports have been taking place across the world over the weekend, including in the Netherlands, where people protested against the “medical apartheid” barring those who haven’t been vaccinated or tested for Covid from bars, restaurants and theatres. The Guardian has the story.

Hours after the requirement to show the pass or a recent negative coronavirus test took effect, the Government of caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte sacked a cabinet minister who had publicly questioned the measure.

Rutte’s office said Deputy Economic Affairs Minister Mona Keijzer had been dismissed because her comments went against cabinet policy on an issue “of such importance and weight”.

In an interview with the Telegraaf newspaper, Keijzer questioned whether the requirement was justified. “If we end up in a society where we have to be afraid of each other unless we can show proof, then you really have to scratch your head and ask yourself: is this the direction we want to go?” she was quoted as saying. …

Several hundred protesters gathered in The Hague, the seat of the Dutch Government, to march through the city centre.

Most Dutch people support the introduction of the admission pass, but it has drawn criticism from the hospitality sector.

More than 40% of bar and restaurant owners do not plan to ask clients for the vaccination certificate, said Koninklijke Horeca Nederland, the country’s hospitality industry association, citing a survey of its members.

It said many businesses saw the requirement as a “political tool” aimed at boosting vaccination take-up.

“It is not only impossible to enforce, but will financially damage a sector that is just starting to recover,” the association added in a statement.

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mishmash
4 years ago

Every protest against this fascism is vitally important, but it boggles my mind that you chose to report on the Netherlands over what’s been happening in Australia.
Still no mention on this website, not even in the news roundups.

Mark
4 years ago
Reply to  mishmash

There have been a few mentions in the Roundups, I think (I can recall at least one recently), and Toby is clearly aware of it and refers to the horrors of Australia quite often. But I agree, it would definitely justify a full story or two.

I am Spartacas
4 years ago
Reply to  mishmash

What is currently happening in Nazistralia would have been condemned worldwide if it had been happening in say somewhere like Russia.

Checkout the behaviour of this Australian police officer – this is not the actions of a sane person – he is quite clearly a psycopath. He has a protestor around the throat and is throttling her – if this was a black protestor in the USA there would be riots everywhere right now….

Why should Australia be treated different to any other tyrannical regime?

https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1441529707049140226

helenf
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

uniformed people like this aren’t police. They are paid thugs, getting off on inflicting cruelty on others. Disgusting.

Mogwai
4 years ago
Reply to  helenf

What’s the betting he hits his wife and kicks his dog?! I sincerely hope he’s not a father! Utterly vile.

Susan
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Aussie Lives Matter

caipirinha17
caipirinha17
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Sadly I think it’s fairly easy to convince people that this behaviour is not only OK but necessary, if they’re given the right kind of programming. See the Stamford Prison experiment.

Mogwai
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

I saw that and it was shocking. I can honestly say, if that girl had been my friend or relative when she was attacked by that scum, I’d have reacted just like if anyone else had attacked her and cracked him over the head with the nearest object, or just my fist! Uniform is irrelevant, he’s still a psycho and needs to face criminal proceedings stat! I’d love to know the outcome for him on this going viral.

Paul B
4 years ago

Clearly it is illogical, clearly the people do not want it, clearly the world’s government do not care.

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

Actually, some German people seem to love it – just read the comment section of any Spiegel article.

Mark
4 years ago

Tim Spector
@timspector

The evidence is building for masks in schools with 3 fold protection according to CDC reports as infections in kids continue to increase in U.K. driving total daily infections up past 50k again according to your Zoe app data

https://twitter.com/timspector/status/1441725737220837377

Weren’t there some people around here who thought Spector was a human being, last year?

A Heretic
A Heretic
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

3 fold protection. Sure that’s entirely believable because every country following a mask mandate in the past 18 months has shown a massive drop in cases. oh wait…

rayc
rayc
4 years ago
Reply to  A Heretic

Today Germany introduced a new mandate to store two masks in every automobile first aid kit… It will be interesting to see if this requirement is ever removed or if it is a permanent subvention for the mask industry (with ties to some politicians here).

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  rayc

Yeah, because if you’ve been badly injured in a car. rash, you won’t be screaming for an ambulance or emergency treatment or painkillers, you’ll be screaming for your face knickers.

Susan
4 years ago
Reply to  A Heretic

A CONTROL study to determine if smothering or ADE is more effective.

CynicalRealist
4 years ago
Reply to  A Heretic

It would be so easy for the media to ask any of these people claiming that face-nappies are effective to explain why this is nowhere visible in the infections graphs* – it’s not possible to even tell whether there was a muzzle mandate, never mind when, on the graph for any country or US state which I’ve seen. There is also no correlation between countries with lower cases and whether or not there was a muzzle mandate.

But of course the media don’t ask such things, because it would go against the approved narrarive.

*yes, I know these graphs are not especially reliable in terms of numbers due to PCR test unreliability, but the trend should still be visible, if it existed.

RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

I think many also saw him as a fake significance-seeker, riding on the back of the Scary Fairy.

Unfortunately, some fell for the Zoe stuff as ‘hard data’.

The Twitter stuff shows up his actual expertise – as a feed for knicker wetters.

Of course – only an ignoramus would, after all this time and evidence, see children as a significant vector. It’s obvious the prat is describing yet another testdemic, and opportunity to keep the loot rolling in.

RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

The Jerk-Bot’s in business again, I see.

helenf
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Not me. Always thought he was bought and paid for. Glad to see I can still trust my gut instinct.

caipirinha17
caipirinha17
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Does 3 fold = 3 masks?

Encierro
4 years ago

This is not the first time Keijzer has been in the Corona news.In December last year she hinted that high street stores certain shops could remain open, even though the cabinet had implemented lockdown in which shops selling non-essential products could not open.In fact there was a bit of confusion as to what shops were able to stay open. Some felt her clarification was clear. In March, this year, she was diagnosed with Covid. thus the entire cabinet had to be tested for the virus after attending a cabinet meeting. This the interview from the Dutch newspaper. It maybe behind a paywall. This is in English and says the app collapsed under the load. Some businesses are not checking if their clients have the app or even if it reads negative. It is not needed to sit on a terrace. However to go to the loo the app is needed as the customer has to enter the building. This is the news about the protests in Dutch. Another one. Use your fav online transalting website to read in English. BTW In March this year the Dutch held a general elections. It is normal for the government to hold a coalition… Read more »

RickH
4 years ago

Well – keep away from the News and Current Affairs, and Auntie still broadcasts some decent stuff.

Not Holland – but I’ve just watched ‘The King’s Choice’ – about Haakon’s resistance pressure from Hitler and the anti-democratic and servile Quisling – Norway 1940. I had a personal interest, since my father was seconded to the Norwegian navy in exile, and received a campaign medal from Haakon.

Again, it’s a personal reminder of the hard fought-for principles that are being so casually floated down the stream. Brenda (Haakon’s equivalent) cheerfully eats the fascist shite, whilst there seem to be more Quislings around than resistance.

MikeAustin
4 years ago

Again, no mention of ANY of the protests in the UK. Surely someone on DS must have their finger on the pulse? The last one on 28th August marched from Hyde Park Corner through Victoria, Vauxhall, Kennington, Brixton and ended up on Clapham Common. It was not so well-attended as previous marches but there was a lot of positive response in Brixton. Today’s protest followed a similar route but not so well chosen. It cut a bit shorter and went through Wandsworth to end up once more at Clapham Common. I think there were fewer than before because many other events were going on round the country. Brighton was a big event, I hear (DS – take note please!) At Clapham Common, there was a lorry with a loud sound system and a DJ. It was not my cup of tea, so I walked back to Hyde Park Corner. However, what happened later was a series of speeches – many by youngsters – all very peaceful. Jo Rogers of Lawyers for Liberty UK was speaking when the police took this down! Dan Astin-Gregory’s Facebook page shows this here. OK, so this was not rubber bullets like in Melbourne – but… Read more »

JayBee
4 years ago

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/israeli-tv-drops-bombshell-vaccine-seems-useless
This mainstream media analysis confirms the total medical uselesness of and lack of any justification for vaxx passports and the discrimination of the unvaxxed by them and by any differing testing, travel and quarantine rules.
They state that the number of cases is similar among the vaxxed and unvaxxed, as is the viral load and as such infectiousness.
Even the Covidian presenter, who harps on about the still existing but equally questionable mortality benefit, boosters and suggests that people go back into their caves, questions why the vaxxed are then not tested and subject to the same restrictions as the unvaxxed?!
And that omits that the vaxxed are far more likely to be vectors now in light of their unjustified feeling of safety in that regard behaviour and the in truth much higher risk of and prevalence of asymptomatic infectiousness with them.
Still thinking that this is about health, or a cockup?!
When they refused to address and change anything with regard to the PCR tests by June 2020 well known flaws, above all standardization and hete above all max. CTs, that idea went out of the window for me.

Mogwai
4 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

Somebody shared this clip here from Twitter yesterday. Nobody on there was able to verify if this is true though, as I guess Hebrew isn’t everybody’s strong suit. I was just worried the subtitles might be wrong and wanted to check my own confirmation bias before I shared it, only to find it was fake. I will share this far and wide once it’s established that is in fact what he’s saying.

Susan
4 years ago

“It will damage a sector just beginning to recover.”
Purposefully.

Peter W
Peter W
4 years ago

Oh dear. Wrong person has been sacked. It should be their prime minister.