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23. Kerber hopes for a "communications strategy" that will build a sense of communal investment in the pandemic response in Germany. He wants to create an "Apollo-13" atmosphere, which I guess means something like determined optimism in the face of crisis.pic.twitter.com/PImjN0J9TY
24. The RKI modellers ask their informant in China, Maximilian Mayer (see upthread) about how contact tracing works in Asia Mayer responds: The RKI has already sent somebody to China, apparently to study and mimic their contact-tracing operation. They shld get in touch with him.pic.twitter.com/WuNogIlVD6
25. Just pausing to note that mass containment was not just inspired by Chinese example. It is a set of policies directly copied from China, by German observers and intermediaries in Chinese institutions, who supply the "modellers" all kinds of data and instructions. Wat mean.
26. And I mean, just ... how improbable is this Maximilian Mayer figure anyway. He's a junior prof at some Chinese Uni suddenly put in touch with the highest reaches of German public health bureaucracy. https://www.cassis.uni-bonn.de/de/ueber-cassis/prof.-maximilian-mayer …
27. "We suggest the motto 'Collectively Distanced'", Mayer writes. Who is this "we" and why is anybody talking to this nobody and how does he have access to "secret" Chinese pandemic data all ready-translated for RKI consumption and why does his name get redacted.pic.twitter.com/L8qoqLhqdc
28. On p. 186, one of these guys calls the Imperial College model the "gold standard of Covid-19 modelling". Their results should inform German model too.pic.twitter.com/hwKvnsyZKV
29. Quick timeline: 16 March: Imperial college model published. 19 March: The German Ministry of the Interior, through Kerber, convenes these idiots so Germany can have a model too.
30. Lmao that email in n. 28 above was also sent by Mayer, our China informant Germany, he says, needs to consider Asian countries w/ SARS experience, who have opted for containment, as an alternative to mitigation/herd-immunity, which was plan in western countries like Germanypic.twitter.com/N37ImYR9rB
31. We're back to 20 March and some of our "experts" are still joining the pseudoscience modelling panel and introducing themselves. This guy says his fundamental area of responsibility is the problem of [instilling] "fear and willingness to follow in the population"pic.twitter.com/o6Lu8w0GBO
32. That from p. 189. A final hilarious bit at the very end, in the mail from 19 March where Kerber announces the project to everyone "We don't know how long the networks will be reliably functioning," he says, and asks everyone to provide personal emails and telephone numbers.pic.twitter.com/nkNVthhaC3
33: Corona: It takes down your professional email but leaves the phones and personal email accounts intact. What a strange disease. That's it for now. Over half the pages are completely redacted. I've skipped a lot of the stuff about economic impact, may go through it later tho.
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