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– een paas-prent over vergankelijkheid en de twijfel over de de mogelijke wederopstanding van Jort uit zijn grafKelder nadat ook zijn tijd gekomen is, of denkt hij dat hem het eeuwige leven beschoren is.

Ondertussen blijven de publieke omroepen deze 21ste eeuwse ‘sociaal darwinist’ en pleger van leeftijdsdiscriminatie een podium bieden. (sociaal darwinisme = overleving van de sterksten volgens de leer van Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) die zijn eigen interpretatie gaf aan de studie van Darwin “The origin of the species” (1859) en deze gebruikte voor zijn elitaire economische theorie.

Voorts zijn de ‘premisses’ over wie wel of niet meetbaar of onmeetbare besmet was is of wordt, kortom de statistieken waar Jort Kelder zijn redenering op bouwt, volstrekt onbetrouwbaar, iedere medische statisticus houdt een slag om de arm, en verklaart dat wat gezegd wordt niet meer dan hypothesen kunnen zijn. Vooral hierin schuilt het gevaar van statements zoals die van beroepsbabbelaars als Jort Kelder, die keer op keer die te onpas en te onpas een landelijk mediumpodium waaraan wij allen meebetalen geboden wordt.

Referentie TV gids intro: “Jort Kelder is een van de weinigen die momenteel zijn minder populaire mening over de coronamaatregelen nog durft te laten horen. Hij maakt zich zorgen over de economie en vreest dat die onnodig hard getroffen wordt..”
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Jort Kelder:
“Wat als je die 81% van de mensen die niet of nauwelijks last hebben van het virus gewoon laat doorleven?”

TV gids: “Bejaarden minder belangrijk voor economie
Hij denkt dat die grote groep gewoon hun werk moeten kunnen doen en vervolgt…”

Jort Kelder:
“Die bejaarden die nu doodgaan, god hebbe hun ziel, maar die zijn voor de economie in die zin minder belangrijk. Dat zijn mensen met pensioen.”
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https://www.gids.tv/video/194641/jort-kelder-over-coronamaatregelen-bejaarden-minder-belangrijk-voor-economie-video
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ik geef ook nog even dit meldpunt voor gevallen van leeftijdsdiscriminatie van omroepMAX: https://www.maxmeldpunt.nl/topic/leeftijdsdiscriminatie/


Deze tekst publiceerde ik eerst op Facebook op tweede Paasdag en één van mijn Facebook contacten reageerde met:

“Is het belangrijk om je over Jort Kelder op te winden? Clowns hebben we ook nodig, toch?”

Ik reageerde met:

“beroepsbabbelaars als Jort Kelder – op 2e paasadag zag ik hem bij het zappen weer zitten wachtend op zijn podiumplaats in een VARAbabbeltafelprogramma samen met een viroloog die in dienst van de NPO lijkt te zijn – beïnvloeden wel degelijk het publieke debat… de gruwel is wellicht dat wij door clowns geregeerd worden. Niet voor niets zijn er velen die clown ‘eng’ vinden.”

Facebook-contact:

“Juist een beroepsbabbelaar. En inderdaad geregeerd te worden door een clown b.v. door Rutte lijkt meer om voor op je hoede te wezen.”

Mijn reactie:

“Dat zijn toch twee verschillende soorten clown die vriendjes… Kelder is het ‘etterbakje’ en Rutte is de ‘spreekstalmeester’ (“iemand die in een circus tot taak heeft de optredende artiesten en hun acts aan te kondigen”; ENSIE) Curieus is natuurlijk dat Rutte een meester is in de zichzelf aankondigende verkondiging.”

Facebook contact:

“Ach nee, zoveel macht heeft kelder toch niet; hij is een van de vazallen.”

Mijn reactie:

“his masters voice, saying what the master can not say… zoals bij de onnutte bejaarden… in de UK zijn er suggesties gedaan om pensioentrekkers te laten meebetalen voor de extra kosten om ze in leven te houden… let op mijn woorden… shoot this messenger (overdrachtelijk dan).”

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>> ageism is unique in targeting our future selves <<

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“HALF OF CORONAVIRUS DEATHS HAPPEN IN CARE HOMES, DATA FROM EU SUGGESTS”
The Guardian on Second Eastern Day 2020
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Snapshot data from varying official sources shows that in Italy, Spain, France, Ireland and Belgium between 42% and 57% of deaths from the virus have been happening in homes, according to the report by academics based at the London School of Economics (LSE).
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ref: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/13/half-of-coronavirus-deaths-happen-in-care-homes-data-from-eu-suggests
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“22 RESIDENTS OF BETH SHALOM CARE CENTER SUCCUMBED TO CORONAVIRUS”
Het Parool on Second Eastern Day 2020
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The outbreak of the coronavirus in the Jewish care center Beth Shalom in Amsterdam-Buitenveldert has already caused 22 victims among the residents.
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ref: https://www.parool.nl/amsterdam/22-bewoners-zorgcentrum-beth-shalom-bezweken-aan-coronavirus~b81457dc/
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen: “CORONAVIRUS: SENIORS WILL NEED TO LIMIT CONTACT FOR MONTHS MORE”

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Europe’s senior citizens will need to continue limiting their contact with the outside world at least until the end of this year due to the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. // Without a vaccine, seniors’ contacts need to be limited as much as possible, especially those who live in nursing homes, von der Leyen was quoted as saying in Sunday’s edition of the German daily Bild. // I know it’s difficult and that isolation is a burden, but it is a question of life or death, we have to remain disciplined and patient,” she said.
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ref: https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/106074/coronavirus-seniors-will-need-to-stay-put-for-many-more-months-eu-warns/

(*) Unlike other prejudices such as racism and sexism … ageism is unique in targeting our future selves
ref: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/sep/14/the-ugly-truth-about-ageism-its-a-prejudice-targeting-our-future-selves


post scriptum 1: the horror is also that in most cases it is not the neglect of the elderly by the staff, but the neglect in financing the elderly home facilities – from not enough and underpaid staff to lack of space and equipment – that can be pointed as the cause. Even worse in many cases the staff itself (and their relatives) have been put at risk for months with the coronavirus outbreak. On all levels of the care system for the elderly there was simply ‘no plan’ what to do in case of a contagious epidemic.

post scriptum 2: Machine translation of article in Het Parool 8 April 2020 with more details on elderly home The Jewish care center Beth Shalom in Amsterdam and the coronavirus outbreak, also nthe number of corona infections 900 in 2500 Dutch elderly care homes and proposed measures:
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The Jewish care center Beth Shalom in Amsterdam-Buitenveldert is mercilessly hit by the coronavirus: fifteen residents have already succumbed, presumably as a result of a violent outbreak that started at the end of March.

Marc Kruyswijk8 april 2020, 8:57
In addition to the high number of deaths, 22 residents of Beth Shalom are currently suspected of corona. After an exciting period, the health of three or four residents seems to recover very cautiously. In total, the care center has 120 nursing home places.

Beth Shalom says it has seen a stabilization in the number of suspected infections since last weekend. In most cases, testing is no longer carried out in the care center, because there are departments where several cases have surfaced at the same time.

Close community
A Cordaan spokesman, of which Beth Shalom is a part, says he has no explanation for the fact that the corona virus was able to strike in this care center. “If you recalculate from the start of the outbreak, you have to conclude that the first contamination occurred when the doors were still open and many people walked in and out.”

The residents and the care staff form a close-knit community where many Jewish traditions are celebrated. It is not uncommon for visitors to come and go in the house.

There are more than fifty apartments on the first and second floors. People with dementia live on the third, closed floor and on the fourth, the somatic ward is home to several dozen residents. There are also more than sixty sheltered homes.

Auschwitz
The care center with a strong Jewish identity is home to many Jewish residents who have lived an eventful life. Some of them survived Auschwitz, many lost relatives during World War II. There are also people who went into hiding during the war. In the past few days, death reports have been sent out in the Jewish community.

The coronavirus outbreak now precedes Passover, one of the most important festivals in Judaism. Passover commemorates the end of Jewish slavery in Egypt and the exodus from Egypt. These events are central to Jewish ethos.

This Passover, however, the corridors of Beth Shalom are controlled by personnel in protective clothing. Residents are kept in their own departments and rooms as much as possible.

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Isolate on site
There are ‘corona centers’ for infected residents of nursing homes, says a letter of 41 pages that Minister of Health Hugo de Jonge sent to the House of Representatives on Tuesday evening.

These are temporary care locations for ‘cohort nursing’. That term refers to the isolation of people with a certain disease.

The locations must offer a solution for situations in which it is impossible to nurse infected residents in isolation in their own nursing home, the minister writes.

RIVM director Jaap van Dissel said in a briefing to the House of Representatives on Wednesday morning that at least 900 of the 2500 nursing homes in the Netherlands have reported corona infections. He also said that the number of infections among caregivers has been decreasing more recently than among other populations.

Professional association V&VN states that many nurses do not dare to go to work, for fear of contamination. More than a thousand reports were received in a week. These come largely from nurses and carers in nursing homes, and from neighborhood nurses who visit the elderly at home.

Most reports are about lack of protective equipment. Some say they visit clients with store-bought masks, firework glasses and household gloves. That is unacceptable, according to V&VN.

The professional association speaks of a ‘silent drama’ in nursing homes and district nursing.
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ref: https://www.parool.nl/amsterdam/zorgcentrum-hard-getroffen-door-coronavirus-15-bewoners-bezweken~b9e53e31/

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