>This has - as far as I'm concerned - no place on HN, it is a Dutch centric affair.

Mah.

It seems to me like you can replace Netherlands with any other country and the government and/or scientific advisors to the government and/or the whatever structure that should have been prepared for these emergencies have shown the same or very similar behaviour:

1) minimize the danger (either in seriousness or sheer quantity of expected cases or both)

2) assure that everything is ready (when it isn't)

3) delay too much the whatever measures that have been taken

To be frank, given the amount of local SF news that makes it to the front page, I think that doesn't matter.

It's a good overview of the Dutch response. I found it interesting. Most such articles aren't written in English so this is far more accessible. If you didn't want us reading it you should have used Dutch :-)

FWIW I enjoyed it at least.

(And for those that wasn't aware, parent is the author.)

I'll make the suggestion to repost it in Dutch and not English.

Did you publish it to any Dutch news outlets or opinion platforms?