eugyppius

if they overreach here, their redactions will be overturned in court. but, another thing is, half the correspondence is totally blacked out. the leaker (who seems to have worked in haste) only scanned the non-blacked pages.

i strongly suspect some of the redacted pages are the ostensibly ‚secret‘ pandemic data forwarded from China by their junior prof informant from Nottingham Ningbao University.

Also, is it known how/why this Mayer guy got in touch with the health agency in the first place? Is he just friends w/someone there? Or should we be asking whether he was also contacting CDC etc as well? (Or maybe someone like him?)

Kerber, the interior ministry bureaucrat, assembled this ad hoc panel to throw together their model. I need to read it again, but it seems that Mayer was known either to Kerber, or to one or more of the original panelists.

He ended up getting pulled into the discussions. He has no expertise of his own and he even admits at one point that he hasn‘t even read the material on the Chinese pandemic/response he‘s forwarding. He‘s just an intermediary.

Have now reread it. He represents some kind of "taskforce," and he was involved in the project from the start. In fact, his first email to the group is a promise that he and his team will look over the RKI preliminary model and provide criticism/suggestions.

Very weird. It’s not his specialty at all right? Just weird

No. I think the most reasonable assumption is, he's a cut-out for Chinese public health advisers. Nobody wants to be on record taking orders from the Chinese CDC. So it gets laundered through a random German academic in China.