Some Covid restrictions were “idiocy” and lengthy school closures were an “unnecessary mistake”, Germany’s lockdown chief has admitted. The Telegraph has the story.
Karl Lauterbach, who became the face of the pro-lockdown movement, said some regulations went too far.
“Much of what we did was right, but what was idiocy was the things like jogging with masks, or rules for outdoors. Those were excessive,” Mr. Lauterbach said.
Mr. Lauterbach, of Olaf Scholz’s ruling Socialist party, also conceded that too little attention had been paid to the wellbeing of children, describing school closures as “a big mistake”.
Germany was praised for its handling of the pandemic by heavily restricting people’s contacts and closing schools and kindergarten for weeks on end.
Before Mr. Lauterbach was appointed health minister in late 2021, he became an influential advocate of strict lockdown measures as a backbencher.
Among his more controversial proposals was the suggestion made in 2020 to suspend regular schooling for at least a year.
“What was a mistake was the long school closures. That was unnecessary,” he told ZDF, the German broadcaster, on Friday.
As recently as April 2022, he was warning against lifting restrictions too quickly, saying that the country could be hit by a “killer variant”.
A trained doctor, Mr. Lauterbach gained a wide following among the German public, but critics warned that his predictions were alarmist.
More rowing back and half-hearted faux mea culpas from the lockdown zealots. If only someone had mentioned this at the time. No, wait, we did – but it was suppressed as ‘misinformation’.
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Too late for any pathetic attempt at back-peddling, the damage is done, and you are a sociopathic Big Pharma shill and lockdown enthusiast! We know exactly what you’re just dying to do next and if you’re an actual doctor that means your behaviour is even more shameful ( mini clip );
https://odysee.com/@shortXXvids:e/Lauterbach-Climate-Lockdowns:e?r=FABHJRisWD1S4JYWmGeKjZit5KmmZfyX
It’s no surprise that Lauterbach is conflating The Virus Crisis with The Climate Crisis: they are both standard Mencken Imaginary Hobgoblins which were invented and marketed by the UN and which lazy UK (and global) politicians, snake-oil salesmen and religious leaders (include secular virtue-signallers and diet-sellers) opportunistically (or stupidly) collude with in order to maintain market share and political power.
What I find ironic is that Lauterbach at the time breezily dismissed his opponents’ views on both “crises” as “nur Verschwörungstheorien” [mere conspiracy theories: 1min15sec] but is now whimpering in a bunker of his own making pleading not to be politically hanged.
What is disappointing is that, if the attitude of my friends is anything to go by, is that at worst The Lockdown was a bit of a slip-up which we can overlook while we return to enjoying normal life and have a bit a laugh, Spitting Image-style, at our politicians’ idiocy. No, friends, it was a deliberate, albeit opportunistic, move to enact major global redistribution of wealth and power from poor to rich, and from West to East, organised by highly intelligent psychopaths. It was highly successful in that respect, and will doubtless be repeated in a decade or so, when the next pandemic menaces us or the next heatwave warms us.
PS: was Lauterbach really inconvenienced by the German travel restrictions during Lockdown [0min16sec], or did he get his eyes tested at Barnardkassel and attend Bierreichebüropartys?
So here is the problem.
In Germany – and in many other places now – if you keep your child out of school for any significant period of time you face criminal prosecution. One child. One child kept away from school – criminal prosecution.
This monster is apparently responsible for keeping millions of children out of school and then breezily acknowledges it to be an unnecessary mistake.”
I have no doubt that a parent hauled before a court for keeping a child out of school claiming, “oops, seems like it was an unnecessary mistake” as a defence will receive little mercy.
What consequences will this German autocrat face? None.
And that right there is the problem with our supposedly free society. People in official positions of power can commit atrocities, break laws and pretty much do anything they like under the pretence that it is for the common good and get away with it with nothing more than a simple: oops, sorry, mea culpa.
It’s disgusting. It’s sickening. And as long as we let it continue these cretins will continue abusing us.
Dick head!
I did work with a lad called Richard Head years ago. Fortunately he had a sense of humour and preferred to be called ‘Rich’.
These authoritarian lunatics must think that if they admit some of their restrictions were “a bit over the top” they’ll get away with it and be forgiven.
They won’t. NONE of it was either necessary or justified. They behaved like Fascists and they should be treated like them.
This guy is a dead ringer for an interrogator!
“Vhat is your name?”
“Don’t give him your name Pike”
I am reminded of actor Michael Eklund’s character as The Executioner in the awful 2007 horror movie “Seed” and of the creaky plot. To keep his job the character has to fake a victim’s death in order to support an incorrect political decision on the deterrent efficacy of preventative treatment (viz execution) for an epidemic of murders. (Spoiler alert: Unfortunately, the “victim” resolutely refused to respond correctly to the treatment, recovered, and wound up determined to seek revenge.)
This man is a despicable excuse of a human being. Absolutely pathetic. The banality of evil, eh…
The guy even seems to be trying to look like a certain Adolf!
In 1914, Hitler was granted the privilege (by the king of Bavaria) to become a volunteer member of the Bavarian army (as he was an Austrian living in Munich, he had no right to do so) and he fought through four years of the so-called Great War as infantryman. At the end of the war, he was in hospital as a private because of a mustard gas poisoning which had caused him to lose his eyesight for some time. When he heard of the so-called German revolution and the way it had ended the war, he decided to go into politics to rectify this pathetic spectacle.
Lauterbach studied medicine and – that’s the important bit – health policy and health management in the USA. In the USA causes some bells to ring when considering that he’s German. This strongly suggests he went there because his family could afford it and his school grades in Germany weren’t good enough to clear the so-called numerus clausus hurdle which had enabled him to study medicine at a German university. In other words, the family had more money than little Karl had brains and hence, he had to go abroad to get a paper degree. Apart from that, he’s a career politician who has never worked in his whole live.
I don’t see any parallells here and I very much doubt little Karl would ever volunteer to risk his own precious skin for the benefit of anything.
Even though some people are now speaking out about the fascistic regulations they imposed on us, none of it absolves them for what they did. The damage they have caused not only to our health both physical and mental but will have far reaching effects for years to come. I will never trust the ‘authorities’, the ‘experts’ or the ‘science’ again, without doing my own research and trust my own instincts. I do feel so sorry for those who did speak out and whose careers were trashed by the despicable actions of the government lackeys who fell upon them like feral dogs. I have a whole new opinion of life and my fellow man now and I feel so sorry for those who swallowed the b.s.
I don’t feel sorry for them as much as I fear them. They are the enablers of the technocratic dictators.
A word from the wise, my 92 year old mother in-law said just the other day,
“we mess about with things to much”
Bless her
I am surprised that you are printing this cr*p here and interpret it as being of relevance or admission of failure. The DT article is just a brief summary of his and Drosten’s recent pathetic effort in Der Spiegel and a recent TV appearance at Lanz, where they are basically whitewashing their decisions by conceding one irrelevant limited hangouts like masks outside, and engage in a blame game for the school closures, which are ‘scientifically’ very much grounded in a quick Drosten study that contradicted an earlier international one showing children are not significant vectors of the disease. It was enthusiastically endorsed by the German politicians and teachers, not least because Drosten had God-like status in Germany at the time due to him being sold to the public as the top coronoviruses expert in the world, the inventor of the PCR test for Covid and the No2 chief bullsh*tter on TV and his at the time incredibly popular NDR podcast. The No1 CBoTV always was and is Lauterbach himself.
So he and Drosten are not repentant at all.
They still fully believe in all the rest, the testing, the masks, the goos, the discrimination, the 180k OF rather than with Covid figure, PostVac just being Long Covid etc..
They still don’t accept the Swedish approach having being better and a success, stating on TV the fairy tale that ‘if we hadn’ t done it, 1 Million Germans would have died’ and getting away with that unchallenged.
If there is one country and people that will never admit that their Covid restrictions were a failure, its Germany and the Germans.
Is it just me, but if the bloke in the picture reduced his moustache to toothbrush and sllcked his fringe over a bit more, he has a striking resemblance to another German tyrant.
Nah – Herr Flick of the Gestapo, perhaps.
As in most governments. The so called elite’s are “book clever” but not “streetwise”. The majority figured out the mistruths very early on. This is why they are incapable of controlling us..
Just limited hangouts https://www.eugyppius.com/p/dont-be-fooled-by-dumb-talkshows?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email