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Witzbold's avatar

The analogy of the vaccine response to Covid-19 as a housing crisis with massive state-awarded construction contracts involving novel building materials/technology and approved in a short-cutted process is simply ingenious. Physical cracks in the fassade!

Nobody in their right mind would accept the government mandating young families move into those buildings. Bob the Builder can recognise the inherent dangers and risks. Much more intuitive than the shrouded mysteries of virology, biochemistry, epidemiology, and pharmacovigilance.

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Rikard's avatar

I see a different - minuscule but existing - risk/chance in this. Germany is characterised with turning a sordid past into a hair-shirt in the present, forever. By daring to declare a recent past nation-wide crime as "Shit happens", a crack in the mental process of societal self-flagellation appears.

A crack that might burst the dam of the guilt-trip for WW2 and associated events, which virtually no living German (soon actually no living German) has anything to do with.

What could a German people unburdened by what has been get into their heads to do about things they find fault with, in Germany?

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