About the Blog Owner

This author page is viewed quite often so I have to do something with it.

I find that difficult because it's not about me at all. I'd rather you read the articles and form an opinion about that. It is also my private blog, a mixture of sometimes furious resentment of the corona policy and cool analysis of data (which often gives rise to anger).

So don't come up with ad hominems, that's pointless, it only says something about yourself.

If you want to judge whether what I write is worth it, look back to see if I have made claims in the past three years that were not true or turned out to be nonsense. I think I've always been right, even where I gave my intuition a bit more free rein. That's the "there's no other way" mistake that easily leads to conspiracy thinking. And sometimes it can't be any other way and it turns out to be so. Sometimes it can indeed be slightly different, and it turns out that even if after six months or a year the real facts become public. But even more often it seems that there is no other way and the true facts are kept secret.

Maybe I should make a timeline of virus varia hypotheses and observations and how they have been dangerous.

You won't find any information about my corona-related work anywhere on the Internet. As far as I know, there are no fact checks on virus varia. Unfortunately, that indicates that I write really disastrous nonsense because it's only when they start fact-checking you that you're in the neighborhood, I always read... 😉

The trick is to stay under the radar. That's a special talent of mine, which I benefit from a lot. My articles are read by opinion leaders and leading scientists. I know that because I am now in personal contact with them. Like me, they want to operate independently.

I work closely and publicly with the research team around maurice.nl (the co-productions with Herman Steigstra, for example). Until now, these were also fairly anonymous people, except for Maurice himself, of course, but he acts more as a kind of editor-in-chief when it comes to whether or not to post on maurice.nl and in what form. In the meantime, Herman has caused a furore - also internationally - mainly through his X account. Statistician Hans Verwaart has his own Substack, which is also very readable.

I made one mistake: at the very beginning I resisted the people who refused to wear masks. At the time, I thought it helped a bit. And it was also at the very beginning, when I still found my own conviction sufficient to dare to take a stand. So I made the same mistake that the OMT has continued to make for three years.

Work and hobbies

Married, two children (out of the house) and two boomers.

My job is marketing communication. In retrospect, it turns out that my Language Proficiency study (at the University of Amsterdam) was actually about marketing communication. I benefited greatly from my minor courses in Computer Science, PR/Mass Communication and Statistics and Methodology.

I only found out how important IT and statistics were in practice, originally as a strategy concept creator and copywriter. Over time, I became more and more specialized and enjoyed the means (the information carriers) that have to convey a concept. I learned that flawless execution cannot exist without conceptual thinking.

For most of my career I have been a preferred supplier to several multinationals, as a concept/design/production studio. In the thirty years that they encouraged me to join a large advertising agency (as a small studio you are seen as a liability) I was pretty much the only constant factor in the communication departments. Those big boys merged, reorganized, broke up, had staff turnover anyway so they didn't learn anything as a company... well.

For me, more efficient marketing communication started with creating company magazines, automating translation processes, DTP workflows and prepress work and later devising and creating Flash banners and micro-sites for product launches. I seized my opportunities when I replaced fax and courier workflows with online communication, first over the phone line, then seamlessly on the web, including self-developed online PDF formatting tools. When the large print runs began to evaporate, the PDF and online work remained. Since 2010 I have been focusing on designing, building and managing WordPress websites, with everything that comes with it in terms of positioning and presentation. Especially for SMEs, foundations and sole proprietorships. So if you have a job in that area, think of me! 😉