News from The Netherlands

[Alinda]

Did you see this info? You can ask for a reassessment if you were denied for not doing GET of CBT.

https://www.uwv.nl/nl/arts/herbeoordeling-me-cvs

But it wouldn't mean anything if the "arbeidsdeskundige" decides you aren't fully disabled anyway. As they don't even really know about your medical situation or treatments.

I definitely think I could have gotten the benefits if I was more sick. But if you aren't bedbound it really seems impossible to qualify for them (unless you decide to lie..), as they have written out my disabilities and needs very well (in the parts that I managed to read, at least) but still found possible tasks.

(thank you for the link though! The one about this that I found previously was only about WIA.)

 

[Turtle]

Just got denied a few days ago, they say I can work for 2 hours a day and need to do more CBT and GET - thus I am denied and will be forced to either stay in school for as long as possible or be fully dependent on family.

I cannot comprehend how stupid the people that came up with these laws must have been.

 

[Sean]

This will make a lot of people very stressed.

And worse.

 

[Dolphin]

This was posted on a list I’m on. Note: they call lots of things quackery, I haven’t dug into what it is about myself.

Programme: Zembla
Station: NPO-2 TV
Date: April 9, 2026
Time: 20:15-21:00 BST (19:15-20:00 UTC, 21:15-22:00 CET)
WebTV: https://npo.nl/start/live/npo2
WebTV: Rerun,
https://npo.nl/start/serie/zembla/afleveringen/seizoen-26
With subtitles,
https://www.youtube.com/@ZEMBLA_BNNVARA
URL: Google translation from Dutch to English,

https://www-bnnvara-nl.translate.go...-medicijn?_x_tr_sl=nl&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en

Item: Quackery and (Post-)Covid

 

[Dolphin]

This was posted on a list I’m on. Note: they call lots of things quackery, I haven’t dug into what it is about myself.

Programme: Zembla
Station: NPO-2 TV
Date: April 9, 2026
Time: 20:15-21:00 BST (19:15-20:00 UTC, 21:15-22:00 CET)
WebTV: https://npo.nl/start/live/npo2
WebTV: Rerun,
https://npo.nl/start/serie/zembla/afleveringen/seizoen-26
With subtitles,
https://www.youtube.com/@ZEMBLA_BNNVARA
URL: Google translation from Dutch to English,

https://www-bnnvara-nl.translate.go...-medicijn?_x_tr_sl=nl&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en

Item: Quackery and (Post-)Covid

This was posted on a list I’m on. Note: they call lots of things quackery, I haven’t dug into what it is about myself.

[Since yesterday, the version with multilingual subtitles has been available on YouTube]

Programme: Zembla
Station: NPO-2 TV
Date: April 9 and 14, 2026
WebTV: Dutch original,
https://npo.nl/start/afspelen/zembla_134
WebTV: With multilingual subtitles,

URL: Google translation from Dutch to English,

https://www-bnnvara-nl.translate.go...-medicijn?_x_tr_sl=nl&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
Rem: The paper by Amsterdam University Medical Center authors has been retracted.

Item: Quackery and Post-Covid

 

[Turtle]

This is really horrible.
Experimenting on LC patients.
Just lidocaine was less than one euro, needed several a day, adding a sugar molecule and a new patent, cost went up to 25 euro's per injection.
The new formula had not been tested on patients.
Passing out while the needle is still in the body?
That's not what I call safe.

 

[Alinda]

We have a thread of the study somewhere