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Mar 13, 2023Liked by eugyppius

Germany's very own Matt Hancock patsy.

He looks even more deranged than usual in the photo,with a hunted demeanour.

The convenient 'outing' of the useful idiots gathers pace,as the prime movers hide behind double speak,linguistic contortions and obfuscation,with a few angry salvos saved for the vindicated sceptics,who refused to drink the Koolaid.

More scapegoats await their turn in the limelight.

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Mar 13, 2023Liked by eugyppius

To me, this is the key sentence, gaslighting, reframing, message and their cop out strategy here:

... "I believe that it was due to the situation at that time that people wanted to get the vaccines as quickly as possible, and so the state assumed liability."

So it's all the peoples fault, not mine/politicians/public health officials.

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Mar 13, 2023Liked by eugyppius

Lauterbach has the ideal physiognomy and rhetorical style for Cornered Rat Leftism. He's perverse perfection.

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Mar 13, 2023Liked by eugyppius

I wonder how long it will take for US officials to start pretending that they didn't mandate vaccines.

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Mar 13, 2023Liked by eugyppius

Karl repeats "1 in 10,000" three times in the interview.

Archive that, and revisit in coming months.

I fear this will approach "1 in 100", as believers continue boosting.

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I'm nowhere near ready to do a victory dance, but it feels like the tide has fully turned...and they say that when the tide goes out, you find out who has no clothes on. This kind of momentum tends to feed itself. Let's hope.

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Mar 13, 2023Liked by eugyppius

I don't think I could ever actually manage an interview with someone like Lauterbach, or his equivalent, because I honestly don't believe I would be able to restrain myself from jumping across the table and beating them within an inch of their lives. Not too keen on a long jail sentence I have to say. Qudos to the interviewer for maintaining composure but taking him to task as well.

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Mar 13, 2023Liked by eugyppius

Wow. Is there a chance the entire EU will have a backlash against the public health response to the pandemic?

Here in the US, the media and administration are pushing ahead. The NYT just had a feature doubling down on the whole catastrophic response: https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?campaign_id=294&emc=edit_np_20230312&instance_id=87521&nl=the-next-pandemic&productCode=NP&regi_id=27031656&segment_id=127581&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2F24993f67-3341-5292-b614-c836ed8396d9

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"But the vaccine really does protect against serious illness and, by the way, very often also reduces the risk of Long Covid." He's still lying--the vaccine does none of that--in fact it produces more harm then actual C19. He should be fired then arrested.

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Mar 13, 2023Liked by eugyppius

'But in fact we have problems on both sides, because we don’t yet have the drugs for treating them. These are being feverishly researched.'

I'm not sure how much connotation got lost in the translation, but notice how his brain goes directly to *drugs* as the solution to a problem *caused by drugs*.

That way lies iatrogenesis.

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Herr Lauterbach should perhaps heed the wise words of Will Rogers:

"When you are in a hole, stop digging."

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The absolutely shocking thing is that they are admitting now that most of the measures were a mistake and completely useless - but if you listen to them, it's as if some strange, faceless entity had decreed that these measures be implemented - not them. There is not one who says: "I did this, I own this, I made a mistake, I am very sorry."

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In the modern Western democracy, nobody is ever responsible for anything.

"I didn’t negotiate the contracts; as far as my office is concerned, I inherited them"

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Mar 13, 2023·edited Mar 13, 2023Liked by eugyppius

Mostly I am glad we never got his WhatsApp messages.

They would likely kill my remaining faith in humanity as an absurd mix of lies, stupidity, and weird German porn.

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Mar 13, 2023·edited Mar 13, 2023Liked by eugyppius

"As minister I have to be careful." For example, I had to publish on the most widely used and accessible media source a claim which I knew to be false and which would result in serious health consequences and unjustified confidence in immunity for many in the population.

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Some are referring to the process we are witnessing as The Great Walkbackening. Sounds appropriate.

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