The mayors of about 30 cities asked the Cabinet to fundamentally revise the coronavirus policy

The current policy lacks logic. It puts too much pressure on citizens and local governments, mayors Femke Halsema (Amsterdam) and Paul Depla (Breda) wrote in an opinion piece.

According to the authors, the ad hoc measures taken by the government "is too great a burden on the stamina and trust" in local governance. "It is in fact impossible, but also undesirable under the rule of law to forcefully convince citizens of the correctness of measures with repression. It not only exhausts the enforcement apparatus, but a repressive government comes up against its own citizens. With so many citizens on the verge of drowning, the coronavirus policy must not succumb further to the repressive temptation. Then authority will crumble further."

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