Today brought the news that the corona test facility in Breda has been vandalised, and that staff there have been intimidated while on duty.

A new testing ‘street’ was recently set up close to the main area hospital, to replace the facility housed in the car-park of the local football stadium.

Even before it opened, street signs directing you to the location had been variously daubed with slogans like ‘corona is fake’. Now that graffiti has become worse and physical intimidation used by irresponsible people apparently unconvinced by the existence of corona.

With cases signalled in virtually every country on the globe, and hospitals full to overflowing in certain places with patients suffering from Covid-19, I find it difficult to see how you can provide more evidence for the existence of corona.

What is worrying is that a very small minority are not only openly flaunting the rules, but are taking to vandalism as a means of venting their discontent.

Street demonstrations, a cherished right in this country, apparently are not enough for these hooligans. Civil disobedience, a grey area at best, is increasingly becoming the order of the day. Physically attacking parts of the health care system there to protect and treat the sick is going way too far.

What worries me is that the police do not have the numbers to cope with such outbreaks of civil disobedience. This country is not used to seeing a constable on duty just to keep order, but that is what will become necessary if this level of aggression continues. The winter is only just beginning. We have some long dark months ahead, with only a muted Christmas celebration this year to raise our spirits.

Those intent on playing the victim of mandated restrictions are going to become increasingly vocal and active, and public order is going to become a real issue in the months to come. Mark my words!