-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.

Als je wilt beoordelen of het wat voorstelt wat ik schrijf, blader dan eens terug of ik in de afgelopen drie jaar beweringen heb gedaan die niet waar waren of achteraf onzin bleken. Naar mijn idee heb ik het altijd bij het rechte eind gehad, zelfs waar ik mijn intuïtie wat meer de vrije hand gaf. Dat is de "dat kan toch niet anders"-fout die gemakkelijk leidt tot complotdenken. En soms kan het inderdaad niet anders en blijkt het ook zo te zijn. Soms kan het inderdaad toch net iets anders, en blijkt dat ook als na een half jaar of een jaar de werkelijke toedracht in de openbaarheid komt. Maar nog vaker lijkt het inderdaad echt niet anders te kunnen en wordt de ware toedracht geheim gehouden.

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

AI ithy.com thinks about it as follows:

ithy Review

Je zult nergens op het Internet informatie vinden over mijn corona-gerelateerde werk. Er zijn bij mijn weten geen factchecks over virusvaria. Dat geeft helaas aan dat ik echt faliekante nonsens schrijf want pas als ze je gaan factchecken, zit je in de buurt, lees ik altijd... 😉

The trick may be to stay under the radar. That is a special talent of mine, which benefits me a lot. My articles are read by opinion leaders and leading scientists. I know that because I now have 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, they were also quite 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 place them on maurice.nl. In the meantime, Herman has caused a furore - also internationally, mainly through his X account and for some time now he has also had a own website. Statistician Hans Verwaart has its own Substack, also very worth reading.

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 work is marketing communication. In retrospect, my study of language proficiency (at the UvA) has actually been about marketing communication. I have benefited a lot from my additional computer science, PR/mass communication and statistics & 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.

Het grootste deel van mijn loopbaan ben ik preferred supplier geweest van enkele multinationals, als concept/design/productiestudio. In de dertig jaar dat ze mij aangemoedigd hebben om mij aan te sluiten bij een groot reclamebureau (als kleine studio word je toch gezien als liability) was ik zowat de enige constante factor van de communicatie-afdelingen. Die prijswinnende reclamejongens fuseerden, reorganiseerden, gingen uit elkaar, hadden sowieso personeelsverloop waardoor ze als bedrijf niets leerden... nou ja.

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! 😉