1. Most Corona infections don‘t matter. Most infections you *don‘t even know about*. The infected recover after mild respiratory illness. 2. This makes the project of preventing all infections, generally, wrong-headed. You want to prevent the infections that matter.
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3. Everywhere that Corona is widespread, infections occur across all sectors of the population. But the infections that matter - those that lead to death or serious illness - occur in very specific places.
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4. In Germany, for example, almost all ICU cases (and therefore almost all deaths) occur either in nursing homes, or in the (Muslim) immigrant community. 5. It is therefore no wonder that uniform lockdowns have no effect on mortality. They house arrest the wrong people.
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6. The theory was that we could suppress community spread *generally* and that this would save the vulnerable. This idea has been completely destroyed by everything that has happened since the first moment.
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7. Nursing home cases are almost certainly seeded from hospitals. Muslim immigrant communities are almost totally closed to ordinary Germans. 8. The truly deadly pandemic is happening parallel to, but independently from, the lives of ordinary citizens.
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9. If governments really wanted to reduce mortality, they would forget about overall infections and the incredibly complex and heterogeneous problem of the entire pandemic, and focus on the much simpler issue, of where the serious cases come from. This is the much simpler problem
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10. In Germany anyway, they don‘t do this. Because, first, the nursing home infections are impossible to stop; and the ethnic pattern underling the rest of the serious cases is - and here I quote - „taboo“.
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11. Grandchildren aren‘t going to kill Oma. That was always a lie. Everybody should behave in proportion to their own personal risk, as they do in all other areas of life and all other diseases.
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