Germany's tabloid @BILD reports that by now 94% of all infections in Berlin are untraceable. Local health administrations often do lack (after obviously useless months of preparation) basic software and data processing tools bild.de/politik/2020/p…
Looking at the rising positive share of tests, #Covid19 is out of control. And yet, it is still not the top priority for authorities to mobilize resources and keep health agencies from collapsing and improve their speed and efficiency in coping with rising numbers infections
Now, we are in the middle of an escalating epidemic situation that was of course utterly unpredictable 😱 t-online.de/gesundheit/kra…
What reasons are behind the lack of preparation? One is the fragmentation of Germany's federal and municipal government systems prevents any serious attempts of unifying local epidemic best practices
https://twitter.com/CiesekSandra/status/1321549750513131521
There are no nation-wide connected data bases and no common real-time software applied to collect and provide data with labs and the corona app in a timely fashion. The health ministry's internal deadline for partial digitalization of local health agencies is set for late 2021
While all staff deserves public encouragement and praise for their hard work of contact tracing, one wonders who should be blamed for the lack preparation and the missing human and technical resources?
Surprisingly few raise the question of legal and political liabilities for all this mess. Who is responsible for the break down of contact tracing? Who apologizes for the humiliating lack of preparation? Who gets sacked for the likely extension of the "soft" lockdown?
#Covid19 is a sobering experience in so many ways. It shows that a lot of citizens feel enraged by the stubborn realities of infectious diseases and elevated by denying such realities and the suffering of so many threadreaderapp.com/thread/1325480…
It also reveals the ongoing ignorance of experts and politicians against experiences from others successful (mostly non-western) societies #epidemicorientalism @yangxifan @RudyakMarina @devisridhar zeit.de/politik/2020-1…
Finally, it reveals the failed state of public health. Germany's health minister preemptively suggested that we'd likely have many good reasons for a "mutually forgiving" attitude bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/presse/intervi… Yet, is forgiveness the proper category here?
Clearly, the least discussed emerging aspect of the pandemic is the organized irresponsibility of under-financed late modern Western health bureaucracies whether in France and Germany or in Sweden, UK and Spain among many others.
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