I don't get why it had to such blanket restrictions either. There's loads of forests and rural areas within the province, who's going to benefit from wearing a face mask when going for a walk or bike ride there? I live in the middle of Antwerp center so I'm fecked either way, though I'd still like to go out and ride my race bike. I haven't tried it but I don't see that working with a face mask. I guess my only option is to stay in my apartment for another 4 weeks, work all day and feel fecking miserable.
The politicians have let us down when they eased certain restrictions way too early. Most people were perfectly content seeing 10 fixed contacts per household, I certainly was. Why did it suddenly need to go to 15 variable contacts
per person per week when there were still 80 daily new cases? Or allowing indoor events with 100 people? All while not giving a shit that
contact tracing has not been working for months. They've let us down and we're paying the price now. Then again, they've made an entire career of doing exactly that, letting people down, over and over and over again.