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Oct 29 β€’ 11 tweets β€’ 6 min read
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Here's some fascinating "facts" - if you can even call them that & not a clear manipulation of figures.

Germany accounts for 10% of the world's Coronavirus deaths, despite being just 1% of the global population!

(That is to say, that they "died with" C-19, not "died from".)
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Germany also has the highest Covid-19 "deaths per million" rate in the entire world.

🌍 47
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡² 112
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ 728

6.5x higher than the US!

15.5x higher than the rest of the World!

These numbers don't add up.

Remember, masking on public transport remains.

πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ It's also worth noting that Germany had some of the most restrictive measures in the world.

And they can be brought back at any time.

The unvaccinated were completely excluded from normal life from last November until measures were dropped in May.

Ladyskimmington.substack.com/apathy-in-germ…
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ As many predicted, the exclusion of the only group still testing to enter premises and only allowing entry to vaccinated people who could still carry & transmit C-19 caused cases to sky rocket.

See the data below to highlight this:

Yet, nobody in the German press cared.
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ In fact, quite the opposite.

The German press demonised the unvaccinated and where happy to print & say hateful things, lacking any justification.

This example nicely highlights that point:



@SarahFruehauf can barely hide her hatred and contempt.
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ This type of statement was not unique nor rare.

It was not only common place, but the same dangerous language is still being used today and it still goes unchallenged.

Here is another recent example, from this month!

πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ For those with the stomach for it, and I even find it hard to read them now, let alone compile and report them, here are countless more examples of how low Germany decended in the last year.

This is why #IchHabeMitGemacht & #WirHabenAusGegrenzt trend.

πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ So, after all of the hatred & discrimination, you'd have thought that there would be a conversation or at least an appraisal of how successful these measure have been.

There hasn't.

Instead @Karl_Lauterbach pushed & pushed to reintroduce measures.

πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ I note that the Tweet quoted above has been deleted by the good Professor.

And there was me thinking that Government communications have to be retained!

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Maybe he is simply following the examples set by his fellow countryman @vonderleyen?

politico.eu/article/ursula…
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ So, despite the hatred, ruined lives, isolation, job losses, divided families, lonely deaths, lack of any demonstrable benefit, increased cases & more - that this dark period of German history has brought - the government wants to do it all again!

πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ To put this into some more context, here is a comparison between Sweden & Germany.

The legacy of these measures, and since @Karl_Lauterbach assumed the role of Health Minister, relative excess mortality has TRIPLED!

- According to Our World In Data.

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More from @LadySkimmington

Sep 4
"What if...?"

A lot of people seems to be asking lately, "What If...?"

What if we hadn't locked down?

What if we didn't try to "flatten the curve?"

What if we had just let the virus run it's natural course without enacting never before tried NPIs?
What if we did actually follow the previous governmental pandemic planning procedures or the follow the findings that resulted from numerous exercises for similar outbreaks?

What if we hadn't closed schools?
Read 24 tweets
Aug 19
No matter how hard I try, and God knows I do try, I just can't get over the last few years, especially the last 12 months.

I'm just not the same person I was in 2019.

No matter what I do, I just can't move on or forget the hurt & pain so many people caused.

I can't forget.
I can't forgive.

Nothing seems to help. Few things seem to make me happy. I'm stuck in an endless cycle of anger & resentment.

I try to switch off & distract myself with nature or books or even films, but it always comes back to mind.
I barely sleep. I struggle to even get out of bed in the mornings. I cry at the smallest thing.

I had hoped that as measures were relaxed, and as normality returned, I'd be able to move on, but am starting to worry that I can't.
Read 15 tweets
Jul 24
We are so divided.
Whether it be politics.
Whether it's religion, race or gender.
No matter the issue, we polarise everything & we divide ourselves into separate camps.
We take labels & pigeonhole ourselves.
We've become deeply tribal
We attack those we perceive to be against us.
Despite holding many similar views, sharing similar experiences, feeling the same emotions, our first instinct is to highlight or focus on our differences.

We take those difference as an excuse to other people & dismiss their genuine concerns.
We seem to automatically use those differences to build barriers.

We ridicule or insult strangers, simply for expressing their views.

We enter into arguments over the smallest difference of opinion & then show hatred & aggression to those open enough to speak their mind.
Read 15 tweets
May 19
πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Germany - The interference with the right to physical integrity is justified under constitutional law in order to protect vulnerable groups from infection with SARS-CoV-2

Shocking decision, based on the availble knowledge at the time the law was made.

bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pre…
Read 4 tweets
May 17
"We are all in this together!"

That's what they said in March 2020.

I was called an essential worker. I carried a letter daily in case I was stopped by the police on my way to or from work.
How quickly that changed.

When people like me questioned if the lockdowns, mask wearing in the street & other NPIs were proportionate or helpful, they were called Corona deniers.
Lockdown sceptics or critics soon began to be called Covidiots. Here in Germany they were called Querdenkers.

A phrase meaning lateral thinker.

A rather strange insult...
Read 15 tweets
May 10
For over 2 years, hundreds upon hundreds of world leaders, government ministers, politicians, pundits, scientists, as well as respected doctors & nurses, have convinced millions that you stop yourself from catching a respiratory illness by isolating yourself from society
It is this dangerous illusion that has cost so many so very much, and it continues to cost us all very dearly.

We now have millions, maybe even a billion who are scared of their fellow human beings.

Still.

2 years on!

It is deeply depressing.
Some will never recover - their behaviours changed forever.

They will continue to live in fear until they day they pass.

It is simply criminal.

And it was completely avoidable too.

Just look at the UK Government's abandoned Pandemic Response Plan.
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