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German official warns of 'really terrible Christmas' without steps to counter surge in infections
The Hill ^ | 11/18/2021 | Lexi Lonas

Posted on 11/18/2021 5:50:28 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The director of Germany’s disease control agency said Thursday the country could have a “really terrible Christmas” if it doesn’t take steps to counter the surge in COVID-19 infections.

Lothar Wieler, director of the Robert Koch Institute, is calling for large events to be canceled and clubs and bars to shut down in order to combat a rise in infections, The Associated Press reported.

Along with the closures, Wieler wants COVID-19 vaccine passports to be used for many public venues and businesses, according to the news service.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christmas; german; infections; terrible
WTF is going on in Europe??
1 posted on 11/18/2021 5:50:28 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

More Phase III vaccine trial subjects are needed


2 posted on 11/18/2021 5:54:51 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
WTF is going on in Europe??

New wave, in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands and likely a few more countries. And the authorities seems to think that more vaxx is the answer to vaxx not working.

Ironically there is logic in this approach too! Vaccination and boosters do have short term effect. They can alleviate the current wave a bit -- at the price of having a yet bigger infection wave next year... and this is the usual politician scheme of kicking can down the road!.. nothing new, but deadlier than ever.

3 posted on 11/18/2021 5:57:39 AM PST by mvonfr
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Same thing that was going on in the 30s.


4 posted on 11/18/2021 6:01:13 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

notice they don’t mention “rising deaths”, so that number must be going down

thus, all Big Media has is more talk about “infections” (guess they don’t use “cases” anymore, it didn’t sound scary enough)

gotta keep mentioning “infections”, even though the vast majority will have no symptoms, or just mild ones

gotta keep The people scared, dammit! This crisis is useful!!


5 posted on 11/18/2021 6:03:20 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: mvonfr
German leader logic: To counter the rise in infections we'll suppress the livelihoods and privileges of our citizens while we continue to import infected "Asian" rapefugees.

Tip to Razorbacks fans who have a low enough IQ to bet on Saturday's game: when Europeans say "Asians" they're not talking about engineers, programmers, doctors, and massage entrepreneurs on h1b visas from the far east. They're talking about the convert-or-die religion of peaceniks.

6 posted on 11/18/2021 6:17:55 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: mewzilla

Exactly. People talk about the “German problem.” Well, folks, here it is.


7 posted on 11/18/2021 6:20:05 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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notice they don’t mention “rising deaths”, so that number must be going down

It is going up, and the data (incl. daily deaths) is very similar to the picture of one year ago. Thus, they are panicking -- at some point people will realize that measures are not doing much.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/

8 posted on 11/18/2021 6:31:07 AM PST by mvonfr
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Amsterdam has closed almost everything at 8pm every night for another couple of weeks, and most likely the Netherlands will extend the restrictions through Christmas.

Remember Christmas 2019? The good old days.


9 posted on 11/18/2021 6:45:19 AM PST by Not_Who_U_Think
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Hey, if only more people got the vax, none of this would be happening...oh, wait...67% of the population in Germany is vaccinated? But surely the vax means that people can't spread the virus, right?

"Even if people are vaccinated, they can transmit the virus to others and we will continue to see a surge in cases. Unfortunately, we may need to think about going a step further and put in curbs for potentially the entire population,'' he added.

It's amazing how behind the curve these people are.
10 posted on 11/18/2021 6:56:54 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Governments just get out of the way you fail as a Doctor


11 posted on 11/18/2021 6:56:56 AM PST by butlerweave
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What is going on in Europe? A modern Reichstag fire.

Germany - stats as of 17 December (Sources: JHU & worldometer)

( Official to-date deaths / population ) x 100 to yield a percentage expression

( 97,203 / 83,783,942 ) x 100 = 0.116 %

One-tenth of one percent. Deaths in Germany since the beginning of the “pandemic.”

The Koch Institut is spreading panic via media, in order to enforce the EU Commission’s wish for a continually changing “vaccine” passport. The jokers will laugh, “your papers please,” but this is fast becoming a reality, while the reality of the actual “pandemic” according to the sourced numbers is “nichts Besonderes.” Nothing special in terms of actual illness, everything about the politics of the EU “passport.” Medical fascism is on the rise.

12 posted on 11/18/2021 6:58:13 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Basic math is simple. Real science open to proof and validation. Fear porn theater is a fine phrase/)
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To: mvonfr
It is going up, and the data (incl. daily deaths) is very similar to the picture of one year ago. Thus, they are panicking -- at some point people will realize that measures are not doing much.

Germany was hailed for its stringent management of covid and low death rate in 2020. Now, the chickens of having little natural immunity are coming home to roost, vax or no vax. It was only a matter of time because *everyone is eventually going to get this bug.*
13 posted on 11/18/2021 7:00:52 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Release the HERD!

“It’s the only way to be sure”

Time to break a few eggs!


14 posted on 11/18/2021 7:30:16 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Antoninus
Yes, death rates seemingly about equalized. Germany's brilliance is no longer noticeable.

Main deviations I see is that Sweden is doing better than others and better than a year ago (least quarantines ?) and Russia is doing very poorly (despite Sputnik which at least is not a kill shot).

15 posted on 11/18/2021 7:42:21 AM PST by mvonfr
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