Why We Endure the Unbearable | Column

Heads with a football almost certainly causes brain damage. If you know that, then stopping heads seems to me an absolute one no-brainer. Because who wants to be more likely to become demented, or diseases like ALS and Parkinson’s?

This week, the Dutch Sports Council published a study conducted at the request of outgoing State Secretary for Sport Judith Tielen into the consequences of sports where the head gets a lot of blows or punches. Football, rugby, martial arts and speed sports that are not always worn a helmet, such as long -bars, fall under that.

Although the many studies that are already there show that the consequences of blows on the head are substantial, the sports council writes, there is not yet an irrefutable causal link between headlines and brain injury in the long term. In Goed Hollands: Not enough brain from dead football players have been investigated.

Personally, I would take the uncertainty. But what does football association KNVB say? He finds a “headerline” sufficient, even for children. Children’s brain are the most sensitive to heads, because they are in full development. The Head Directive says: Five times heads per training, oh. Or ten times, oh well. That is possible. It counts of course, but what does those a thousand times head out a year now.

And others than children? Maybe a little fewer heads. But they only have to decide a bit, it’s just a guideline, an advice. Women also just continue. The studies that women’s brains are most likely more intense to respond to heads than men’s brains are brief. Then to be sure you can best keep playing football with your head. Yes anyway.

What’s in our people, I wonder that we will continue to go through things that we most likely or even virtually certain Want to know they are harmful? Why should we have one hundred percent irrefutable evidence that we prefer to be destroying and bloody under our nose, before we really believe something?

Why are we going to light up fireworks for another year, cozy, with New Year’s Eve? Tarn -long pets, care providers in the corner, inner cities who are swept on pieces and set on fire, drained fingers, eyes from greenhouses – who knows it will not go so fast this year. That very last time. Can you do? After all, you never know.

To be sure, why don’t we really do our best to limit our emissions? Oh well, does the earth really get warmer now? Let’s wait a bit. Just look. It can also be something else. And there are studies that contradict the investigations. Taking action, because it doesn’t work then it doesn’t harm? Naaah, not necessary anyway.

And what else does it have to be proposed for what is happening in Gaza? For God’s sake. It “let’s wait and see, just look” has never been tolerated. It is ge-ja, many people die, also aid workers, journalists, children, by bombs on hospitals and auxiliary stations, in ways we ever never again said. But whether it is a genocide? Mwoah. We know for sure by now, but you never know anything for sure, do you?

What is in people, I wonder that we will continue with things that are too horrible for words. Knowingly and knowingly. Are we so bad, are we so stupid? Yes, perhaps due to the many heads.