id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-274268-0ucqp3uz Chorus, Caspar Diabolical dilemmas of COVID-19: An empirical study into Dutch society’s trade-offs between health impacts and other effects of the lockdown 2020-09-16 .txt text/plain 7804 293 48 While our study is confined to the Dutch society, and we acknowledge that countries differ widely in terms of their culture, the actions taken by their governments and preferences towards COVID-19 policies [11, 12] , we nonetheless observe that in many other countries, debates are raging that are similar to the one being held in the Netherlands; take for example the heated exchange in the United States of America (e.g., [14] ) between governor Cuomo of New York who emphasizes that avoiding fatalities takes priority and that one cannot weigh a human live against the economic impact of the lockdown, versus president Trump who is keen to re-open the economy and professes that the cure cannot be worse than the disease. This paper presented the results of an empirical study into Dutch society's preferences of COVID-19 related government policies, specifically in terms of the weights attached to various impact-dimensions of such policies. ./cache/cord-274268-0ucqp3uz.txt ./txt/cord-274268-0ucqp3uz.txt