Covid Aftershocks: 'A Pandemic after the Pandemic'

According to Austro-Covidian Health Minister Rauch, (mental) health issues of the young are blamed on 'Corona' and not on the 'Covid mandates'

And thus the re-writing of the WHO-declared, so-called ‘Pandemic™’ continues.

Here’s a recent interview with Austro-Covidian Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) who spoke to the left-woke hate rag formerly known as Der Standard.

See if you can spot the agit-prop (puke) here; translation, emphases, and bottom lines mine.

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Rauch: ‘This is a Pandemic after the Pandemic’

Interview by Lara Hagen, Der Standard, 11 March 2024 [source]

The mental health figures for children and young people are alarming. Health Minister Johannes Rauch is calling for a national action plan, which must also be included in the next government program [yee-haw, more one-size-fits-all plans, what could go wrong?].

Johannes Rauch has been Minister of Health and Social Affairs for two years now. Corona has largely been forgotten [speak for yourself], but the aftereffects of the pandemic still concern the Greens. Rauch will not be a candidate in the National Council election; he ‘of course’ wants to campaign to prevent [Freedom Party chairman Herbert] Kickl from becoming chancellor. The EU election is the most important of his life in order to stop the advance of the right [remember: every upcoming election is the most important of anyone’s life].

Der Standard: Last week a 14-year-old probably died of a drug overdose, unfortunately this is not an isolated case [a girl who died in the apartment of a 26-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan; police has stopped investigating these circumstances, go figure; also, shame on you, Ms. Hagen, for downplaying this]. In addition, more young people are among the drug-related deaths, and suicidality has increased threefold. What's going on here?

Rauch: After these multiple crises [say their names], we have an increasing economic burden on households. And this also affects the mental health of young people. The social and psychological consequences of Corona are stark. And there are massive differences between boys and girls. The fact that girls and young women are more affected by many illnesses is also shown in our ‘Healthy out of the Crisis’ project [orig. Gesund aus der Krise; I haven’t looked at it yet]. Here, young people receive treatment within three weeks [may be too late]. We have looked after more than 15,000 so far; 62% are female.

Der Standard: An important project that the next government could simply cancel, right?

Rauch: It couldn't because the project is designed to run until 2025 [a strong denial reads differently].

Der Standard: Some demand therapy as a health insurance benefit or at least a higher reimbursement of costs [see the leftish spin? ‘some demand…’ more gov’t outlays: who pays them?]

Rauch: That is the task of social insurance, including in the contract design. We are now introducing psychotherapy as a university course, which I think is important. The equal treatment of psychologists and psychotherapists has already been implemented—this potentially doubles the offer in one fell swoop [hold on, this is a distinction that’s been around since Freud dreamed up ‘psychotherapy’—and it’s going to be a shit-show all over again if the very same doctors who mindlessly injected people with the modRNA juice will now get into prescribing mind-altering ‘therapy’, to say nothing about the notion that so far one of these two was a university program (psychotherapy is currently entering academic curricula…)]. A contract is currently being negotiated between social security and the professional association of psychologists. It is true: there needs to be more statutory health insurance reimbursement for psychosocial forms of treatment.

Der Standard: What is also missing are specialists in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. In international comparison, Austria is not doing well.

Rauch: That is a very careful description of the situation. Yes, we have a problem. We have always had far too few, but now the requirements have increased. For example, crisis interventions are sometimes not possible because no psychiatrist is immediately available. As a result, people end up in inpatient psychiatric care, where they don't even belong. This subject is therefore one of our priorities when expanding health insurance contracts. We have also created additional training positions.

Der Standard: You mention the 100 additional training positions that should have already been advertised.

Rauch: The tender is already running, and is running very well. There are more than 600 applications for the 100 positions. Contrary to some prophecies of doom, it will not be a problem to fill them.

Der Standard: The mental health of children and young people is a cross-sectional matter when you think about the shortage of school psychologists. Wouldn't there be a need for a round table, similar to the recent issue of violence against women? [I’ll just say this: children need way less therapy and more freedom to be without supervision]

Rauch: The next government, no matter what it looks like, will have to develop a longer-term program, a national action plan [be afraid, be very afraid]. I think such plans only make sense if they are equipped with money and laws. But first it's about coming to the realisation: We have a massive problem. And if we don't solve this, we will lose thousands of young people [a double hypothetical, i.e., a false and misleading assertion]. But we cannot afford to lose even one [remember: ‘we’re not safe until everyone is safe’? Would that include gang-raping asylum-seekers, too?]. This must be part of the next government program [why bother voting, then, if the agenda is pre-ordained?].

Der Standard: Do you have the feeling that this realisation exists in other departments? A social worker said in Der Standard that politicians do not take problems of children and young people seriously [no source is given].

Rauch: I see them, I hear them. They are described to me because I spend a good part of my time in these facilities. Now it will be important to raise awareness of this in the other departments as well. The alarm bells should actually be ringing in the education sector if you look at the developments in school expulsions. This is a pandemic after the pandemic, so you have to say it and then react. There needs to be a national solidarity.

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Bottom Lines

This is painfully stupid, but we do gain a few insights into the ‘minds’ of those who administered the Covid shenanigans in Austria and, by extension, elsewhere.

These people are borderline insane and psychopathically inclined. There’s not other way to put this.

Before Covid, everyone knew what happens to adolescents if they’re cut off from their social environments and friends. Somehow, during Covid, the powers-that-be pretended that everything was ‘new’, hence their absurdities.

Before Covid, for example, we knew about the harms of online/social media content, but during Covid, the powers-that-be pretended that remote instruction would somehow protect grandma.

Before Covid, we also knew that it’s bad for society to label certain groups with bad names and declare open season; heck, we even had ‘laws’ to protect such (minority) groups. Somehow, during Covid, it became o.k., if not desired by the same powers-that-be, to demonise individuals and groups alike. Remember, everyone who was against the mandates was an ‘antivaxxer’ and ‘far-right extremist’? Once Russian troops entered Ukraine, the notion of a ‘Putin apologist’ was added.

Ironically, though, the interview was also thoroughly misleading in yet another way: Austro-Covidistan was notorious for its harsh mandate regime, and it’s beyond the pale that the Health and Human Services Minister now decries that students were expelled from schools (because they were told to ‘quarantine’ or because they remained ‘unvaccinated’), which has led to a ‘pandemic after the pandemic’.

We better be very, very, very careful that this ‘pandemic after the pandemic’ doesn’t lead to the gov’t imposing yet more harmful mandates to ‘flatten the curve’.

Finally, as to Mr. Rauch’s claim about elections, well, he wasn’t the worst of these Health Ministers (Mr. Mückstein undoubtedly was), but he will soon be gone. We should contemplate holding him to account in court, and, failing that, probably get hold of some tar barrels and feathers.