Weimar/Germany: the local figures do not argue in favour of vaccination, so the city of Weimar has found the ideal way to improve them – by censoring them
Currently, in the hospital in Weimar, 3 out of 5 “covid” inpatients are vaccinated [1]. This does not really argue in favour of the vaccine, the local authorities believe. So they have found the miracle cure to straighten out the figures: censorship.
Indeed, the city states: “The number of fully vaccinated people staying in hospitals will no longer be communicated in the future. Mayor Peter Kleine explains: ‘We want to be as transparent as possible with our figures. However, mentioning the vaccinated people being treated in hospital clearly distorts reality and plays into the hands of covid deniers and anti-vaxxers. I would like to stress that, at present, the lack of vaccine protection is what most often leads to severe forms in hospitals. Fully vaccinated patients are, as a general rule, treated not “BECAUSE OF” but “WITH” covid; they are nevertheless included in the statistics and thus skew them. We want to avoid a false impression arising and have therefore decided no longer to publish this figure.’” [2]
In other words, then: “We love transparency and would very much like to be transparent with you, but not too much. Since transparency does not show the politically desirable result, it bothers us. Out of a concern for transparency, we are therefore telling you transparently that from now on we will be ‘non-transparent’ whenever it suits us. What shows through here is our pure propagandistic and political opportunism.”
There are so many glaring errors packed into so few sentences that I do not know where to begin. First, how do they know that in this specific case these are hospitalisations WITH and not FROM covid? And then, it is good to make this distinction, but we have been calling for it from the start for ALL covid cases, not just for the vaccinated! Damned “double standards”! What is more, how dare they omit local statistics because they would not confirm the official version or would not be in line with the average?! These people do not understand that statistics are aggregated figures and that averages are never projected onto individual cases, just as individual cases are not thrown out simply because they are not in line with the average! It is precisely on their basis that the average is built! The ignoramuses! And anyway, if they are hospitalised because of covid, they are hospitalised because of covid; they should disregard the image, the message and who benefits from it! And who benefits from censorship, then?! Oh, how I hate opportunism!
Another interesting detail: among the places of contamination, neither restaurants, nor cultural venues, nor large events, nor public spaces are mentioned. Nor hospitals, for that matter…
By Colin Meier, citizen journalist at BAM!
[1] https://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/regionen/weimar/mehrheit-der-corona-patienten-in-weimarer-klinik-hat-vollstaendigen-impfschutz-id233622327.html
