Exit strategy

 On Friday, members of the government and of the High Council of Health gathered in Brussels to talk about an exit strategy for the corona measures.

They came up with a plan, but like always it isn't much to talk about. For instance, they'll allow to gather with groups of (more than) 10 people outside (in which children younger than 12 are not to be counted), but dining with 2 in a restaurant is not allowed.

In their plan cafés and restaurants will reopen in May, but then everybody who enters must take a self-corona test. How crazy is that? 

Like everything in Belgium, planning is not their forte. There are just too many governments (federal, regional, municipal) that stand in the way of organising something. Take the vaccination campaign. A computer system will send out invitation letters to those who can be vaccinated. But that computer program wasn't working properly (who was surprised??) and so there was already a delay of two weeks. They have been vaccinating for over two months now and not yet a million Belgians have got their shot. They are around 600,000 by now.

Yeah, Belgium... They could learn a bit from Israel, the UK and even the USA. But here it's talk, talk, talk - and doing nothing!