Yeah, none of this makes sense medically. I wonder what's going on in those people's heads. Maybe they're doubling down on a failed strategy because they think this is the only way for them to rescue their political and/or professional careers. A bit like, if you've already murdered a few people, then you just go ahead and murder anyone else who gets in the way, because, should you get caught, 10 murders won't get you any tougher of a sentence than 3, and so you've got nothing to lose. Same with Covidians: they are in such deep doo-doo that nothing they do can get them into doo-doo that's any deeper than this. That applies to the leaders of the movement (such as Fauci and Lauterbach). For the rest of us, it matters a great deal. Just as 3 murders in your small town is still preferable to 10 murders.
- Of the big Berlin newspapers, the Berliner Zeitung seems to be most willing to publish pieces criticizing Covid policy (the other two are Berliner Morgenpost and Tagesspiegel). That said, I am glad to reside far from Berlin.
- Thomas Voshaar has been lobbying, almost since the beginning of the pandemic, for a treatment protocol that avoids ventilation ("Moerser Modell") and that seems to have been quite successful.
I fully agree on the 'glad not to live anywhere near Berlin' sentiment. Having been to that place a couple of times, I'm super-glad every time I leave.
As to Voshaar, spot-on, and it's certainly a welcome sign of perhaps shifting attitudes.
Berliner Zeitung and Die Welt are the two dailies that seem willing to follow the data and platform informed critical voices.
The cynic in me wonders if it is just a commercial decision to try and capture the vaccine sceptical market (it worked on me, I actually subscribed to Welt to get access to their reporting). I'd like to hope it's just journalistic integrity.
It is fascinating to compare the WELT and ZEIT comment sections. Why am I paying more than 250 Euro per year for a ZEIT subscription but have no subscription to WELT? Partly laziness, partly masochism, partly avoidance of cocooning myself into a bubble.
I really can't afford the Abo and will have to cancel soon but I really wanted access to Tim Röhn's reporting on Söder's dishonesty regarding the incidence figures used to justify 2G back in November.
And I have been pleasantly surprised by some other good articles by the likes of Ulrike Guérot (political scientist) and Michael Andreck (philosopher).
This article below makes a very astute argument about the shifting of public rhetoric from political assessments to moral judgements:
It is a weird old world this. I assume both Austria and Germany has the same type of law prohibiting unsolicited medical practice (such as claiming or acting as if one has a medical degree).
So if I was to offer a miraculous cure for let's say rheumatism, I would have to provide both proof of effect and show the mechanism behind the cure. I would be heavily fined or even sent to prison if I denied customers unwilling to take this cure access to my store.
But if I am a politician without any medical training, I may freely make whatever claims I fancy, as long as I can use the excuse that "experts" agree.
Funnily enough, that's exactly what proponents of homeopathy, anthroposophic treatments á la Steiner and Blavatsky, crystals, and so on do too. They also refer to shadowy, sometimes even anonymous experts.
The way things are going, we'll be back to curing scoliosis by pulling kids through holes in tree trunks before long.
This is a fair point, but then again: the rule of law is essentially broken after two years of this. It'll take a lot of time and sustained effort on part of the citizenry to get back to anything resembling the rule of law.
As to the scoliosis part, I'm reminded of the fact as to why the French revolutionaries put Louis XVI on trial: in part because he tried to flee, i.e., neglect of duty.
Maybe that's an idea that would serve our Canadian friends well?
In Italy, if you recovered and older than 49 yrs, and after 6 months u don't get vaxed you get a ticket of 100 euro (120 us dollars)... But I find difficult to understand what's going on here, as 99,9% of the press prostitutes (journalists) and media ones, follow every narrative they're payed/ordered for.
There are few bloggers with few readers, maybe some doctor, not virologist, that have said something with sense, not the narrative. No trucks, no protesters and if any they are already infiltrated by police or extreme right provocateurs as shown in Rome fights videos.
Pretty said. But not new, Italians have a extremely long history of prostitution to dictators and powerful people. Mostly a bunch of catholic hypocrites that go where the wind blows...
Yeah, none of this makes sense medically. I wonder what's going on in those people's heads. Maybe they're doubling down on a failed strategy because they think this is the only way for them to rescue their political and/or professional careers. A bit like, if you've already murdered a few people, then you just go ahead and murder anyone else who gets in the way, because, should you get caught, 10 murders won't get you any tougher of a sentence than 3, and so you've got nothing to lose. Same with Covidians: they are in such deep doo-doo that nothing they do can get them into doo-doo that's any deeper than this. That applies to the leaders of the movement (such as Fauci and Lauterbach). For the rest of us, it matters a great deal. Just as 3 murders in your small town is still preferable to 10 murders.
Two remarks:
- Of the big Berlin newspapers, the Berliner Zeitung seems to be most willing to publish pieces criticizing Covid policy (the other two are Berliner Morgenpost and Tagesspiegel). That said, I am glad to reside far from Berlin.
- Thomas Voshaar has been lobbying, almost since the beginning of the pandemic, for a treatment protocol that avoids ventilation ("Moerser Modell") and that seems to have been quite successful.
Harr, thanks for the additional information.
I fully agree on the 'glad not to live anywhere near Berlin' sentiment. Having been to that place a couple of times, I'm super-glad every time I leave.
As to Voshaar, spot-on, and it's certainly a welcome sign of perhaps shifting attitudes.
Berliner Zeitung and Die Welt are the two dailies that seem willing to follow the data and platform informed critical voices.
The cynic in me wonders if it is just a commercial decision to try and capture the vaccine sceptical market (it worked on me, I actually subscribed to Welt to get access to their reporting). I'd like to hope it's just journalistic integrity.
It is fascinating to compare the WELT and ZEIT comment sections. Why am I paying more than 250 Euro per year for a ZEIT subscription but have no subscription to WELT? Partly laziness, partly masochism, partly avoidance of cocooning myself into a bubble.
I really can't afford the Abo and will have to cancel soon but I really wanted access to Tim Röhn's reporting on Söder's dishonesty regarding the incidence figures used to justify 2G back in November.
And I have been pleasantly surprised by some other good articles by the likes of Ulrike Guérot (political scientist) and Michael Andreck (philosopher).
This article below makes a very astute argument about the shifting of public rhetoric from political assessments to moral judgements:
https://www.welt.de/kultur/plus236454499/Corona-Debatte-Die-Aufkuendigung-der-Republik.html?
It is a weird old world this. I assume both Austria and Germany has the same type of law prohibiting unsolicited medical practice (such as claiming or acting as if one has a medical degree).
So if I was to offer a miraculous cure for let's say rheumatism, I would have to provide both proof of effect and show the mechanism behind the cure. I would be heavily fined or even sent to prison if I denied customers unwilling to take this cure access to my store.
But if I am a politician without any medical training, I may freely make whatever claims I fancy, as long as I can use the excuse that "experts" agree.
Funnily enough, that's exactly what proponents of homeopathy, anthroposophic treatments á la Steiner and Blavatsky, crystals, and so on do too. They also refer to shadowy, sometimes even anonymous experts.
The way things are going, we'll be back to curing scoliosis by pulling kids through holes in tree trunks before long.
This is a fair point, but then again: the rule of law is essentially broken after two years of this. It'll take a lot of time and sustained effort on part of the citizenry to get back to anything resembling the rule of law.
As to the scoliosis part, I'm reminded of the fact as to why the French revolutionaries put Louis XVI on trial: in part because he tried to flee, i.e., neglect of duty.
Maybe that's an idea that would serve our Canadian friends well?
In Italy, if you recovered and older than 49 yrs, and after 6 months u don't get vaxed you get a ticket of 100 euro (120 us dollars)... But I find difficult to understand what's going on here, as 99,9% of the press prostitutes (journalists) and media ones, follow every narrative they're payed/ordered for.
There are few bloggers with few readers, maybe some doctor, not virologist, that have said something with sense, not the narrative. No trucks, no protesters and if any they are already infiltrated by police or extreme right provocateurs as shown in Rome fights videos.
Pretty said. But not new, Italians have a extremely long history of prostitution to dictators and powerful people. Mostly a bunch of catholic hypocrites that go where the wind blows...
Amen to that, esp. since Austrians seem to be very much like the way you referred to Italians.