Branch Covidian Advent Calendar, 22 Dec. 2023
Austrian Chancellor Nehammer 'splains the Pandemic Management: A Photo Insanity Story w/Subtitles
Yesterday, the Austro-Covidian régime hastily called a presser, with as little as two hours notice. What happened, you’d might ask, and the answer is that we all received an early Christmas present.
There’s a 177 page-strong ‘report’ (‘Reflections’), which is quite o.k.-ishly hidden on the Federal Chancellery’s website. You can download it here.
It was ‘presented’ by Chancellor Nehammer, assisted by a bunch of other apparatchiks, most notably Research & Education Minister Polaschek and Deputy President Bogner of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, with the latter functioning as editor.
Here’s a snippet of the fascinating prose that could be heard
You could click here and watch a brief ORF report, in case you understand German. The below screen shots are taken from said report and I’m posting them here for the record.
Thus spake Nehammer on 21 Dec. 2023 (my translations):
Because in the discourse [meant is public debates] the arguments were lost…
…that those who rose agains the measures…
…identified those as their enemies who ordered said measures [oh, I wonder why].
While those who supported the measures did not understand…
…as to why the others did not comply with the measures.
Thus, all of a sudden, this morphed into a ‘us-vs.-them-and-them-vs.-us’…
Instead of we all together against the virus.
Now we all know, eh?
Brief Notes
Why yesterday? What’s in the ‘reflections’? And, above all, have ‘we’ learned a thing? All of these are relevant questions, and while I’ve read the report (it’s breathtakingly moronic, as I’ve expected it to be), there’ll come a day, soon, when I’ll look at the report for the record.
Today, however, we’ve got other business to attend to, hence I shall give you the below gem that appeared ‘on the margins’ of yesterday’s presser. Enjoy, if you will, my translation, with emphases added, and a few bottom lines.
Bizarre: Sick Chancellor without Mask Coughs During Covid Confessional
Heute, 21 Dec. 2023 [source]
In view of the persistently very high Corona wave and the upcoming holidays, Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) is urging the population to be careful. ‘When I visit my sick mother, I put on a mask’, he explained recently, with a view to the Christmas holidays and self-protection from infections. For the minister, this is ‘a question of common sense’. [note the illogical fallacy here: he visits his sick mother and puts on a mask for ‘self-protection’: if masks are for personal protection, how could they ever ‘protect others’?]
Of course, even top politicians sometimes miss out on the latter. And that happened at the big press conference on the ‘After Corona’ report, where the government discussed its mistakes in combating Corona. While Austria's Green health watchdog was conspicuous by his absence at a Federal Council meeting, [conservative] Chancellor Karl Nehammer raised the temperature among some observers during the question and answer session.
When asked by a reporter, the ÖVP chairman, who was clearly suffering from a cold, was unable to respond at all because of a violent coughing fit. ‘Sorry…it's a flu-like infection…it's had me for a long time now too…’ the head of government coughed, barely intelligible, to those present.
The Chancellor then delivered his minute-long answer about the difficulty of the political Corona decisions without any further issues. Immediately afterwards, a journalist from ORF, of all people, created a doubly crooked look.
He whistled in a sickly voice into the microphone that was being passed around among his colleagues [the horror: no-one disinfected the bloody mike]: ‘Mr. Chancellor, excuse me, I've been served too.’ The latter acknowledged this with a brisk ‘I know’.
As the official recordings from the Federal Chancellery show, hardly anyone wore a mask. Neither the sick reporter, nor the sick chancellor, nor any of the other government representatives. But well: the performance was about mistakes that were made during the pandemic, not after.
Bottom Lines
This is almost too comically stupid to be actually true, but there you go. I sometimes wonder what Monty Python would do about the WHO-declared, so-called ‘Pandemic™’.
I suppose life imitates art, that is, if you’d like to consider the movie Idiocracy a piece of ‘art’.
Remember, never have we been governed by greater morons.
The only group of people that are actually greater morons are the ‘correct’ journos in legacy media, though, and I shall close out this posting (lest I begin to rant) by giving you…known Covid Hatemonger and Diehard Vaccinatrix Colette M. Schmidt of Der Standard:
I don’t know what ‘shadow families’ (orig. Schattenfamilien) means in either language, but here’s a pro tip for you, Colette Schmidt: perhaps you would like to stop insulting people in the new year? (Or, alternatively, take another booster jab.)
#we remember
"Efforts to ward off the Corona-virus were carried out in a less than ideally efficient and considerate manner".
My brother often remarks that I should have gone into politics not as a politician, but as a semantic acrobat. I'd rather shovel actual shit for a living, to tell the truth.
It does not speak well for politicians that they need dedicated speech-wranglers to put out non-committal corporate blather; it's so easy to do I honestly cannot grasp how simple (or naive in the sense of innocent) the mind that is unable to do so in tis sleep.
Then again, the sleep of the mind breeds monsters.