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EUGYPPIUS : A GERMAN PERSPECTIVE
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Last month, I wrote about the expert committee mandated by the German Bundestag to evaluate the effectiveness of lockdowns and other containment measures. While I was travelling, the report finally appeared. Its findings are less directly critical of containment than early leaks seemed to suggest, but they still constitute a quiet rejection of signature Merkel-era policies.
Lockdowns, the report claims, work only at the beginning of an outbreak; as people become tired and cooperation declines, they lose their effectiveness. Test requirements targeting the unvaccinated reduced infections in the beginning, but became less effective as vaccine protection against infection waned. Whether or not school closures accomplished anything, is allegedly unclear, but the report is stridently certain that masks are super effective, at least when worn correctly.
As I said last month, this is a political document, intended to set the parameters for future containment policy in Germany. Its empirical findings aren’t to be taken seriously, but from its pages we can nevertheless learn important things.
Lockdowns are off the table, if not yet openly discredited; school closures probably are too. Most discussion is now centred upon Fall mask mandates and – even more importantly – new general testing rules applied equally to vaccinated and unvaccinated alike, following the explicit recommendations of the report authors. The vaccinated, in other words, are in danger of losing their special status, should politicians elect to reimpose measures.
This matters most of all, because it shows that all talk of a renewed vaccination campaign in the Fall with Omicron-specific boosters is empty. Without vaccine mandates and without any special privileges to entice their victims, the vaccinators have nothing. Their entire campaign lies in ruins, as central realities we first recognised in July and August of last year have now become widely familiar throughout the medical bureaucracy and the press.
The declining political capital of the vaccinators isn’t an accident. Billions of people across the world now have direct, firsthand experience with these novel pharmaceuticals. A great many people indeed have noticed that they make a lot of otherwise healthy people sick and that they don’t prevent infection. If these were the wonderful, revolutionary products that the vaccinators claim, mandates never would’ve been necessary in the first place, and enthusiasm for the latest Omicron instalments would be at fever-pitch. Instead, this chapter of the pandemic is drawing to an end, because for all they act like they’re above it, also the Corona astrologers and the public health wizards must face the constraints of the real world and act within them.
We are in the final, indefinite stage of Corona. Countries like Germany, which cannot abandon their virus suppression fantasies, will turn more and more to low-cost symbolic measures intended to be minimally disruptive while still satisfying the hypochondriac hardliners.