From danger to uncertainty: changing healthcare practices, everyday experiences, and temporalities in dealing with COVID-19 policies in the Netherlands

Based on ongoing longitudinal research in families with young children, we investigate parents’ changing everyday experiences and healthcare practices of dealing with COVID-19 policies in the Netherlands from March until June 2020. We identify four key themes developing over time. In relation to evolving Covid-19 prevention policies 1) the lockdown interrupted life and experiences of temporality. 2) Following the lockdown, risk management changed from fear to insecurities and 3) simultaneously, emotion management transitioned from solidarity to fragmentation. 4) Increasingly, pragmatic conside... Mehr ...