Karl Lauterbach now admits the belief that many infections occur in schools and day-care centres “did not prove to be correct."
01-30-2023
eugyppius: a plague chronicle:
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/lauterba...-schools-drive
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There’s a lot to say about this. The most obvious, is the open attempt to shift blame for catastrophic pandemic measures onto not-so-nebulous “scientists who advised the federal government” – a clear jab at Christian Drosten. And of course there is the very tired lie that nobody knew any better in 2020, even though by the Fall of that year – when Lauterbach zealously retweeted Covid lunatics like Zoe Hyde – his own government was publishing weekly contact tracing data that sourced the plurality of infections to care homes and could find almost none in educational or childcare settings, despite the heavy testing there. It’s especially frustrating to read statements like this now, because many, many of us spent a good part of November 2020 pointing precisely at these numbers, only to be thoroughly ignored.
What’s most important, though, is the emerging strategy that we see here and in other places, to contain the growing impression that our entire pandemic response has been a failure. Too many people have been complicit in these ruinous policies for there ever to be an open acknowledgment that they constitute a wholesale disaster. Instead, they’ll try to pick aspects of the containment regime to repudiate instead, in the hopes that limited admissions will calm their critics and forestall an avalanche. In Germany, they’ve decided that it’s the school closures that are to be officially regretted. I suspect this is a preview of the strategy they’ll pursue with the mass vaccination campaign, admitting that in their zeal to save lives, they accidentally overvaccinated some younger cohorts. They didn’t know any better at the time, they’ll say; they were just acting in good faith, they’ll add.
Never believe them.
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I agree with the author. This is likely a preview of what's to come as politicians try to distance themselves from many (if not all) of the policy decisions they made.
Keep in mind that this is from Germany where vaccine rollout in large numbers and vaccine mandates happened several weeks before vaccine rollout and (less far reaching) vaccine mandates happened here in the US.
If I had to hazard a guess, two to three months from now you'll start to see politicians distancing themselves from their policy decisions here in the US.
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