I know that some of you are impatient with my posts about German politics, and particularly my repeated pieces on our retarded Health Minister. I get that this can seem like inside baseball, and that all of you suffer under the very similar idiocies of your own Covid politicians. But, I just can’t help myself. Lauterbach is a special case, a truly monumental idiot who in his boundless incompetence and stupidity vastly exceeds his peers. It is my aim to make him the international symbol of pandemic derangement. I want pictures of this human incarnation of everything that is wrong with masking children and force-vaccinating millions printed next to future dictionary entries on Covidianism. We have seen the enemy, and it is this sad, stupid, Smeagol-looking loser, who thinks Eric Feigl-Ding is an authority and that clip-on bowties are fashionable.
You must understand that Lauterbach is not only the dumbest federal politician Germany has ever had. He also ranks among the least competent, most bafflingly idiotic people ever to have attained prominence of any kind. He is a drunken tweeter who as Cabinet Minister once declared war on Russia. He is a dim salt-phobic eccentric whose own ex-wife declared him unfit for the responsibilities of a Cabinet position. He is a tireless advocate of mask mandates who in May 2021 was photographed totally maskless on a train to Hamburg.
He has written one of the saddest, most derivative and pointless Ph.D. dissertations I have ever read. He poses as an epidemiologist while routinely misinterpreting even the simplest scientific studies. His most memorable science fail was a tweet citing a “new American Mega [sic!] Study” showing that mask efficacy is “very great and uncontested”. His link led to a bizarre pre-print that was so bad, some concluded it had to be a hoax. When a serology study emerged showing that 95% of Germans had Covid antibodies, he denied the results meant the pandemic was over, inadvertently questioning the entire premise of mass vaccination. He spent much of early 2022 demanding that ever more people get fourth doses and even said he himself was quadruple vaccinated. Three months later he announced he had tested positive for Covid, declared his symptoms to be substantial, and then violated Berlin quarantine rules to attend a press conference, where he was stupid enough to flash his digital vaccine pass to the cameras. The QR code revealed that he had only ever received three jabs. His Ministry insisted he’d merely failed to register his second booster with the CoronaWarn app, but the next year he doubled down on his stupidity, allowing the press to photograph his physical vaccine records, showing only three doses were registered there as well.
At one point he proposed to exempt the recently vaccinated from indoor mask rules, saying that he hoped this would encourage further vaccine uptake. After polls showed that disturbingly large numbers of Germans were willing to accept quarterly vaccination for the privilege of mask exemptions, he said he’d withdraw the incentive if too many people took advantage of it. This summer, with the political relevance of Covid fading, he opened a new front against summer weather, announcing an initiative to call old people and remind them to drink water whenever temperatures get too high.
There has been such an unrelenting tidal wave of Lauterbachian moronicity that it has proven impossible to keep track of it all. He is an endless source of comedic content, a political lolcow who stumbles from embarrassing gaffe to embarrassing gaffe without ever seeming to notice. Last year, he appeared on national television and ranted bizarrely about the Stanford epidemiologist John Ioannidis and the Great Barrington Declaration. He seemed to be drunk, or perhaps under the influence of some medication, as he mashed his words about “certain scientists who are shared exponentially on social media”:
So there is exponential growth in viruses, and there is also an exponential growth in false information. You only need a few scientists for this… In the case of Corona, for example, there was a scientists who used to do very good work but has now drifted off course. A Stanford scientist, Ioannidis, made a declaration, the Great Barrington Declaration, which basically said that the virus is not that dangerous, that it’s not killing people, that flu can be more dangerous and so on, a lot of things that just aren’t right. And this has been quoted incredibly often by these people, who are out there, and there are just far too many of them, who would like to hear the relieving message, “it’s not really that bad, we don’t have to do anything”.
The rant escaped notice at the time, but was recently unearthed by my Twitter friend @tomdabassman, who uploaded the clip with English subtitles. He tagged Stanford medical professor and Great Barrington Declaration co-author Jay Bhattacharya, who could hardly believe his eyes. Almost everything in Lauterbach’s rant was wrong, and he said so in a tweet that has now been viewed almost a million times:
Now, for better or worse, Germany looks up to America and prizes American academic culture. When a Stanford professor criticises the German Health Minister, the German press take notice.
First was a modest article in the Berlinzer Zeitung – ‘Harsh criticism from abroad: “Lauterbach seems not have any inkling”‘
Stanford Professor Jay Bhattacharya doesn’t see [Lauterbach’s statements] as a laughing matter. He wrote on Monday that he’s sorry the Germans had such an unqualified health minister during the Covid pandemic.
He countered Lauterbach’s statements with four points: firstly, Professor John Ioannidis is far from being an outmoded scholar and is one of the most frequently published and cited scientists on the subject of Covid. Secondly, he neither wrote nor signed the Great Barrington Declaration. Thirdly, even this declaration did not declare the virus to be harmless …. Fourthly, Bhattacharya says that “Lauterbach seems to have no idea of the damage his lockdown policy has done to the poor, children and the working class. Germany has worse Covid results than neighboring Sweden”.
The original tweet with the Lauterbach video has already been viewed 500,000 times; the tweeting Health Minister has not yet responded publicly to the Stanford professor’s message.
Then came Bild, the largest-circulation newspaper in Germany, with the headline ‘Stanford Professor has harsh criticism for Lauterbach‘:
In his Covid policy, Karl Lauterbach repeatedly talks about science, arguing with studies and articles. But, of all people, a renowned Covid scientist is now sharply criticising the German Health Minister!
Stanford Professor Jayanta Bhattacharya (50), an expert in health economics, has accused Lauterbach on X of being “incredibly misinformed about Covid science”.
The reason for the outrage: an RBB interview with Lauterbach from March 12th 2022.
In an interview excerpt shared by Bhattacharya, Lauterbach complained about an “exponential growth not only in viruses, but also in false reports. … In the case of Corona, for example, there was a scientists who used to do very good work but has now drifted off course: a Stanford scientist, Ioannidis,” Lauterbach says. He is referring to John Ioannidis (58), Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford University.
Statements that Bhattacharya won’t let stand!
“Professor John Ioannidis is not ‘worn out’ and is one of the most published/cited scientists on Covid,” he says… Furthermore, Ioannidis neither wrote nor signed the ‘Great Barrington Declaration’. And the Stanford professor clarifies in his counterattack on Lauterbach that the ‘Great Barrington Declaration’ never claimed that the virus was “not dangerous.” … “Lauterbach seems to not have any inkling of the damage his lockdown policies did to the poor, to children, and to the working class,” says Bhattacharya. AND: The Stanford professor even calls Lauterbach “unqualified”.
Major blogs and online magazines like Reitschuster and Tichys Einblick have picked up the story, with headlines about how badly informed Bhattacharya finds Lauterbach to be. News.de calls Bhattacharya’s “public reprimand” a “bitter slap in the face” for the Health Minister; Der Westen says much the same, as does the television broadcaster ProSieben.
We desperately need more of this. I call upon Jay Bhattacharya to continue his attacks on the German Health Minister. He is a moronic pseudointellectual fraud and a menace, and the German people need to hear this from Stanford professors like him. Perhaps the other authors of the Great Barrington Declaration could add their voices too. Surely John Ioannidis would also like to weigh in.
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Of course.
The revolving door shows how big pharma controls government, mandating vaxxes, dictate policy.
There ought to be a law against this, at least a 5 year cooling off between high office and private sector.
Part of the cooling off process might be to avoid buying products from companies that do that.
How about we just shrink the bureaucracy? That way we don’t have to add more rules the already giant mountain of rules and regulations.
I’m going to go out on a limb here but my prediction is that if we didn’t have a Chief Medical Officer we would be absolutely fine. I’d go even further to suggest that we could get rid of most of the jobs in the Department of Health and Social Care and things wouldn’t not only not get worse, but they might even go better.
Doctors (who can act independently), nurses etc, yes, plenty of that.
Health bureaucrats. No thanks.
Things would definitely get better. The covid reaction, cheered on by the health industry, killed more people than it “saved”. Would our health suffer if we got rid of the WHO?
Our health will DEFINITELY suffer if we don’t get rid of the WHO.
It has already.
Agree 100%.. and I’m not so sure we need government either..
We don’t need more laws.
“Before granting any new power or prerogative to the state, first imagine that power wielded by the politician you hate most, because one day it will be.”
10 years would be better as after that length of time the value of the rat jumping the ship would be Net Zero
If only more people had seen through the whole covid vax scam instead of meekly rolling up their sleeves taking the toxic vax the whole hysteria driven scam would have collapsed. As for me, I suspected fraud from the very beginning and the minute Bill Gates knocked on the door of No 10 and his shill Boris Johnson was banging pots and pans the whole scam was flashing caution like a Belisha beacon.
Should be taking up roll as a prison cook or sawing post bags. Sharing a cell with his mates Vallance and Witty.
I thought the exact same thing! These three destroyed lives, why are the still out on the street?
sickening isn’t it?
Judy’s.
I meant of course Judas
No, it’s fantastic.
The one thing we’ve been absolutely able to rely upon is these peoples stupidity.
Now even the most pro Covid hysterics are going to be raising their eyebrows at this ill timed action,scratching their heads and maybe wondering if the ‘conspiracists’ may just have had a point all along?
It all works in our favour.
“The fact that Moderna snapped him up so quickly proves that the government appoints the Top Scientists in the Country to advise them! Our NHS is the envy of the world!”
Sadly the nhs is hardly the envy of anyone’s world.
sorry this is so disgusting. That man has profited on deaths and misery, he used his influence to ruin the country, to abuse children forced a lie and experimental injections on us, and now he goes to his true masters for his big pay off. The fact that he knows we know and he doesn’t care. he is literally rubbing our noses in sh1t.
What next I wonder Mitchie the monster and Farrsr are safely ensconced in the WHO so they can create more tyranny and despair. I just wait on Whitty and Valance although the latter has more than handsomely profited already, to show up in a Phsrma, the WEF. The UN
WHO or one of the Gates Rockerfella scams.
When if ever will justice be served on these serpents.
Apologies to snakes
They are all doing nicely for playing their part in the plandemic.
It’s not just unsafe covid jabs that are being being promoted. Rexulti, a new antipsychotic drug for agitation in Alzheimer’s has been shown to have little beneficial effect and yet it is being fast tracked for licensing by the FDA despite an increased risk of death of four fold in the control group over the placebo group.
“The FDA has set a dangerous precedent about the data it may require for future drug approvals for this vulnerable patient group.”
Alarm as FDA fast-tracks first antipsychotic drug for agitation in dementia
Do your own research before taking anything.
“Do your own research…”
For that reason I declined the recent offer of a Shingles vaccination (look at the NNT and the side effects, folks, as well as the cost to the taxpayer). Only this week I hear of a friend of a friend who developed chickenpox (which she thought she’d had in childhood) just a few days after vaccination. Not a pleasant infection to get in your seventies.
“Van-Tam was a member of the Vaccine Taskforce, which the Government said made decisions on “all vaccine supply contracts..”
The cynisim behind ‘No one is safe until everyone is safe’ is laid bare.
Never trust a word these cretins say again.
“re-opening the debate about Government officials transitioning to the private sector roles and the potential misuse of privileged information”
The debate was never closed. Actually, what debate? They are all in cahoots. Unholy cahoots.
I don’t think I want the state to be responsible for my health – or anyone else’s.
He’ll need the saline substitute or the ‘real’ thing will probably kill him.
Now wouldn’t *that* be a turn up for the books?
This short arse needs to be held to account for the months and months of utter lies and BS he spouted..
What a vile human being
Rewarded for lying to the British people; playing his part in wrecking the economy and ruining the lives of millions.
Why am I not surprised?
Poor diddums, obviously his gold-plated, taxpayer funded final salary pension wasn’t enough for him to get by in the standard he’s been used to.
As the reports of SADS, myocarditis, strokes and other serious adverse events and deaths continue to roll in and data analyst experts are censored by the government via the NHS post covid vaxx, one of the men who carried out the evil plot is catapulted to the top. Something is SERIOUSLY wrong.
The Road to the killing fields are paved with impunity & reward
Entirely predictable unfortunately. I hope his conscious is clear but it looks deeply troubling to me.
They may have snapped him up so quickly so they can keep their strangle hold on the truth. Which I mean, what really happened.
He is less likely to be a witness for the prosecution in the ‘fold’ under their employment and control.