Notes from 6th of April

Weekly Zuidoost CPT Meeting

Reigersbos:

  • People made a complaint about the Test bus because it was blocking the entrance of a storage space.
  • They will look for a new place to move it to. 

Stedelijke overleg:

  • Naast de testresultaten veel besmettingen die niet ichtbaar zijn, bijvoorbeeld besmettingen bij kinderen.
  • Deze week 18% stijging, in alle leeftijfsgroepen (vooral kinderen door scholen – the whole class is tested if one child is sick, this influences the numbers to grow.
  • The problem is also that through schools they infect their parents who infect their parents)

Ondernemers kant:

  • They didn’t notice much business in the shopping streets or markets this weekend.
  • I didn’ agree, I’ve been to Ganzenhoef and it was very busy there, both at the market and at the shopping street under the metro line.
  • In ArenA Poort it’s more regulated. Venserpolder as well, and it’s still being monitored. 

Huisfeestjes studenten:

  • Illegal parties are happening at the student housings.
  • Wat wilt het stadsdeel hier? Wat is het visie van de CPT? Willen we iets doen met de handhavers? Willen we een andere anapak? Doelgroep jeugd, hoe groot is dit groep?
  • Waar wonen hun ourders (in Zuidoost of in een andere stad of in een andere land – in case they are international students?).
  • An alternative way to think about the problem can be that – if they don’t see their parents very often, then perhaps they also don’t cause the danger of infecting their parents.
  • However, because they are residents in Zuidoost, it is still possible for them to infect others in places like supermarkets (interesting to think about the places where strangers meet).
  • It has been already tried out to send handhaving there. This didn’t stop them from having parties, and at the same time, the Stadsdelen don’t have the capacity for prevention.
  • Another option is to hand out flyers but most probably they won’t be looked at. What are the weekly rhythms of the students?
  • I proposed that rhythm approach could be interesting there and that I will check whether looking at this issue could be interesting for us (the youth who live at the student housing can be interesting because they are at a specific location, it could be relatively easy to go talk to them, and ask them about their (daily, weekly and monthly) rhythms. We could even do a mapping of their social networks, and when they meet the rest of the residents or not. This could maybe even show that people with certain rhythms don’t create any risks for the rest of the society). 
  • Identify places where people from different communities and age groups can come together (supermarkets, markets…).

Testing:

  • It can be an option to place a gastvrouw there (through the organization Venzo, which offers temporary jobs to people).
  • The new location of the test bus will be next to the Kraaiennest mosque. 

Vaccination:

  • The urgent question right now is about vaccination, especially in Zuidoost. Weekly theme sessions are being organized about this.
  • I was also invited to join to think form the rhythm perspective. I am planning to introduce the idea about integrating buurthuizen, less communication but more structural information. [make a reflection on why the buurthuizen are important for city and community rhythms].


Weekly Researchers Meeting 

Vaccineren en hoe ver zijn we?: landelijk geen inzicht qua leeftijden en ethnicities.

  • Nummers huisartsen niet duidelijk als ze vaccins hebben of niet. Wie wordt door de huisarten gevaccineerd? Wie wordt gebeld / brief gestuurd?
  • Bepaalde groepen achterblijven.
  • Postcode van de gevaccinneerde mensen weten we wel (this way it can be said that Zuidoost is behind, for example).
  • Leeftijdgroepen zijn bekend
  • Hoeveel vaccins worden bested

Difficult for the stadsdelen to suggest people to be part of the research on the Moroccan community. They are planning to do a focus group session at the schoolpleinen. Everybody in West thinks that vaccines are mandatory. This is also connected to what is said on the news about vaccination passports. 

  • Behavioural change wheel doesn’t work for larger groups.
  • Beter in zicht brengen de sociale netwerken.
  • My proposal here was to make use of the buurthuizen as important places for spreading information. 

Discussion about me joining the stadsdelen group. Karen also agreed that I will develop something with my research in Zuidoost that can be used by the GGD as a strategy for all stadsdelen. They also asked me to bring back what I hear from my meetings with the Stadsdelen. 

Test strategy and self-testing: self-testing may not work as predicted because if the result is postivie, then the person is still required to go to the GGD to be registered as a corona patient. Or they might test themselves and not do anything about it.


Weekly CPT Larger Team Meeting

  • De taak van de CPT: beïnvloeden van gedrag – transform this into  het aansluiten aan de ritmes van mensen.
  • Testbussen: aantrekkelijk maken zodat mensen ze het kunnen herkennen. [pinar: if they were already at places people know well, like the buurthuizen, you wouldn’t have to do this. Making use of the existing networks/reference points]. 
  • A good example here is vaccination at mosques (it is being discussed whether this is possible) --> Importance of 3rd places in vaccination.


Discussion about testing and work:

  • I asked to the team whether they have thought of getting in touch with the employers (of large companies) as part of their strategy for making testing more diffused.
  • At the moment residents with a migration background are being framed as those who are not willing to be tested because of their cultural reasons, but actually, there is also the issue that same people also do particular types of jobs in which they have less secure contracts, have to be more in physical contact with others and have to travel further to go to work. For them, to be tested causes anxiety, not only because they find it hard to structure their daily lives but also because if the results are positive, then they are not sure whether they can still get a paid sick leave.
  • It was told to me that it is not the role of the GGD to look into this. Their role is to advice the residents accordingly. This as a strategy would be out of their scope. 


Discussion about a successful session in Oost:

  • There was a meeting with people with a Surinamese (both Hindoestani and Creoli backgrounds) and for the first time the whole group was convinced to get themselves vaccinated. In the Surinamese community, no matter their age of education level (just like many other communities), believing in the complot theories is still very diffused. However, this session was very successful, and everybody changed their minds.
  • It turned out later that this session had taken place at a buurthuis (a local foundation) in Oost. There were 10 people in total, which was the maximum capacity to have in a group meeting. Therefore, the participants were at their safe space and physically connected.