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Thanks for that, very interesting. Also interesting that there is a mask mandate on public transport, but nowhere else - another set of mental gymnastics to acknowledge that it's helpful and effective on a bus / tram / ferry, but not in a shop.
I guess my 'challenge' (not to you personally) would be that I would consider indoor places (I'm thinking mainly of supermarkets here) shared spaces, so people should respect that and avoid spreading their potentially infectious aerosols everywhere.
I'm more surprised than annoyed at the resistance to it, though there are thankfully a lot more people wearing them now.
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JWestland
So, I think this is how it works:
Shared Resource Rules are... rules. Littering, being antisocial on public transport, not paying taxes, being a greedy shit (hi ABN Amro Bank!), big egos, not cool. Boris would have 0 chance in NL.
The idea is rules are there to make society fairer (which is arguable...it depends on the rule, as this NI living Dutch finds out, but yeah, that's the idea) like you know...traffic lights. Same for all, chaos without them (though again, that's not always true) and of course rules can be unfair, like in any place. But sticking to them as a sign of common shared responsibility is a Scandi trait the Dutch also tend to have in society.
But when it comes in personal life/your body, well, that is not seen as a shared resource, but your own thing and so... as long as it does not interfere with shared society that is all fine.
I think that is where the mask resistance is coming in, and the PM should really point out that when it comes to SHARED stuff, like train seats, the Dutch are fine with rules.