Scientists launch website that seeks the ideal exit strategy

The intelligent lockdown is certainly necessary, but is also causing serious damage to society on almost every conceivable level. That's why it's essential to resume 'normal life' as quickly as possible. So it's a quest for the ideal exit strategy. The new crowdsourcing website Strategies versus Corona invites network researchers, programmers, data scientists, psychologists and economists to come up with exit strategies and also to directly calculate the consequences. The new website has been set up by UvA professor of Psychological Methods Denny Borsboom, also one of the initiators of Data versus Corona (see below for more information), together with Tessa Blanken, Charlotte Tanis and Fabian Dablander. How do we as a country extract ourselves from the situation as well and as quickly as possible? At first sight this question would seem to lie in the realm of epidemiology. Why do you believe it's so important that network researchers, programmers, data scientists, psychologists and economists also get to grips with the issue? 'Exit strategies always have an epidemiological core - usually in the form of mathematical models that describe the spread of the virus. But they are also based on behavioural interventions such as social distancing - which are typically the domain of behavioural scientists. Moreover, the evaluation of exit strategies requires that attention be given to medical, economic, social and psychological costs. A virologist recently claimed that it would be best to keep the Netherlands in lockdown for a year - if you do that, then of course the country just won't exist anymore.' How does this website aim to help us find the ideal exit strategy?