Germany, having concluded some of the most insanely stupid pharmaceutical contracts in the world, will soon receive enough Covid mRNA vaccine to last well into the 24th century
You could not have invented a stupider pandemic:
According to the German Ministry of Health, the federal government at the end of February had amassed a reserve of 116 million doses of Corona vaccine. 111 million more doses, valued at around 2.5 billion Euros, are slated for delivery. According to an answer given by the Ministry on 28 March to a question by Thomas Dietz, a Bundestag member of Alternativ für Deutschland, EU treaties oblige the German government to take delivery of these doses. “In view of the current state of the pandemic, the federal government is working to make these EU treaties more flexible,” the answer continues.
Another paper does the maths, and notes that if vaccination continues at the current rate of 2,000 jabs per day, the 227 million doses which Germany has procured will last for 311 years. Of course, all of these doses will expire well before then, so Germany will merely receive all of this useless product, store it at substantial expense in freezers for around eighteen months, and then throw it away. This hurts Corona.
In related news, Welt reports on the curious failure of Lauterbach’s Health Ministry to finish work on the so-called National Reserve for Health Protection, which Merkel’s government planned three years ago. The Reserve was supposed to be a massive depot for masks (but of course), other personal protective equipment and medicines, which would in theory free Germany from reliance on China the next time somebody is stupid enough to cry wolf about a respiratory virus.
So far, the only thing anybody has done to realise this Reserve, is put 245 million masks in it, a substantial portion of which will expire by the end of the year. A Ministry spokesperson explains that the project has devolved from a Health Reserve into a National Trashbin for Worthless Masks that Nobody Wants, because it has received no funding. It appears politicians have lost enthusiasm and now prefer that the manufacturers and the federal states maintain their own “decentralised” reserves. This obviously means that they have quietly written off the project but hope that nobody will realise.
Despite all that you hear from WEF conference attendees and virus pests like Lauterbach about the importance of “pandemic preparedness”, the will to actually do anything about pandemics – even at the highest reaches of government – has never been lower. Perhaps we’re not the only ones who have concluded, after all that happened since March 2020, that it is indeed best to think less about viruses.
It's 2026. The Ampel coalition has collapsed, and in its place, following an unprecedented early election, is the SchWampel coalition, formed of CDU, SPD, FDP, and greens. The CSU got subsumed into the CDU to ensure their continued existence, and the FDP scraped back in under an obscure provision of the new electoral law that is the subject of at least 26 cases that Harbarth's constitutional court has refused, so far, to look at.
A new rhinovirus variant is sweeping kindergartens and schools the length and breadth of the country. Parents of small children are taking days sick off work. Health minister Lauterbach is tweeting about "long runny nose". His shock troops are furiously issuing masks from the national reserve, which must be worn by all parents on collecting their offspring.
Millions of idle people, unemployed following Germany's final economic collapse and the exit of major firms like BMW, Siemens, and Audi to China, are corralled to check the date stamps on the masks of said parents, ferrying their children home to their unheated apartments following the federal decomissioning of all fossil-fuel powered heating systems on 01 January 2026. Those with expired masks are sent away and the children ferried home on police bicycles, the parents invoiced for the trip.
Vibrant quarters have become a no-go-zone for heating inspectors and are still warm. Intrepid dwellers in some older houses, slated for demolition under climate emergency laws (also the subject of ignored constituional court cases) because they are climate unfriendly, have knocked out the drywall in front of 19th century fireplaces and are burning what they can find.
Everyone agrees this is the best Germany of all time.
Eugyppius, you pose the biggest threat to people like Lauterbach and Merkel because you ask the right questions. The German media will only focus on how many masks were uselessly stored, how many vaccines uselessly bought and stored - you will ask how did we get here? That’s the one question the powers that be do not want anyone asking.