A media disaster like no other

The print media fill their columns with technical terms such as doubling time and with statistics that are supposed to represent steep rises without explaining the background, meaning and relevance. The audience is stuck with the idea that it would be a malignant disease. This impression is to be underlined with the formulation that it would be a new virus. The fact that it has only been newly discovered is being concealed….

The print media fill their columns almost voluptuously with technical terms such as doubling time and with statistics that are supposed to represent steep increases without explaining the background, the meaning and the relevance. It remains with the audience that it would be a malignant disease. This impression is to be underlined with the wording that it should be a new virus. The fact that it was only rediscovered is ignored.

Every day television penetrates intensive care units and the daily news shows pictures of helpless people on devices. Sensational lust comes before preserving dignity.

Even the nightly crime films show corpses all the time; these films can no longer do without the depiction of halls of pathology. In this way, the audience is brought up to numbness and at the same time fear is raised that one could be treated so undignified.

Unscrupulous politicians like Lauterbach supportively draw horror pictures of life-saving but missing devices. It is mostly the same politicians who are responsible for the devastation of the health systems in the southern countries of the continent. And who doesn't think of the recently implemented medical suicide aid?

It's not a virus is the monster, we had it at the flu wave two years ago when twenty-five thousand people died in two months and nobody was interested, but the political apparatus that shamelessly exploits people's fear and helplessness is the monster.

The global economic crisis had long been heralded. It was clear among the professional observers that the crash would come. Share prices reached dizzying heights, prices for goods fell, and overproduction in the industrialized countries could not be stopped even with leasing models and temporary buying incentives (black Friday). The transfer of production to low-wage countries reached its limits. It became increasingly clear that the exorbitant imbalance in foreign trade could not be a sustainable economy. One so-called bubble (most recently in real estate) after another emerged.

The politicians, who of course knew exactly that the collapse was imminent, hoped to be able to drag the revelation into the period after the general election. In this sense, Altmaier's constant talk that we had scraped along the crisis was meant. At the time of the extreme escalation, the rescue came in the form of Dr. Drosten who inflated a corona virus into a killer virus.

Now the political apparatus could show its power and use all instruments: chastise, demoralize, split and subjugate the people. And the Chancellery still found the twist to declare immoral, who does not adapt and thus endangers the old and the sick. For years, however, the rulers pretended to be deaf when attention was drawn to the nursing emergency. The countries of the East were better sucked off in order to lower wages here, until, for example, the populist government of Poland could not help but to make bureaucratically more difficult to poach.

The media complex is now preparing the discrimination of the elderly in an unrestrained, cynical way: people with a walker no longer dare to go out on the streets, they are mobbed.