I saw last weekend, “The Looming Tower” on Amazon. The series is from the agents at the CIA and the FBI, would have had it in Hand, the attacks of September 11. To prevent of September, the trust but each other miss, that you fought each other dear to each other as the enemy from the Afghan mountains.
“The government has failed you”
In the last episode of the series sits Richard Clarke, the top security adviser to the President, prior to the Commission of inquiry, which is to process the failure. Before him all people were to the series, and pleaded that they had done everything possible to avert disaster. “Your government failed you. Those entrusted with protecting you failed you. And I failed you,” begins Clarke in his witness statement: “The government has abandoned them. Those who are tasked with your protection, you are left in the lurch. I left them in the lurch.“ About the author Susanne Krauss
The reader will love or hate him, indifferent Jan Fleischhauer is the least. One need only look at the comments to his columns, to get an impression of how much of what he writes, people moved. For 30 years he was at the MIRROR, at the beginning of August 2019, he joined as a columnist to FOCUS.
Fleischhauer sees it as his task to give a view of the world voice, he says, that it is represented in the German media. So in case of doubt, against the stove places and ways of Thinking drive, in common. Fun his lyrics are all – perhaps it is this fact that provoked his opponents the most.
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there Will also be with us in two years, a Commission of inquiry that examines how it could happen that Germany was ill-prepared for the Corona-crisis? Then someone from the government will sit there and confess that you have not done what you have done?
shortage of ventilators and intensive care beds is the biggest Problem
We, that we have the best health system in the world. We now know all the number of intensive care beds and ventilators, to which the Unfortunate are connected, the get no more air. We read that all the stations were cleared, to the onslaught of the Infected prepare.
But if we can believe the Reports from practices and hospitals, then the people in the first wave will die, because it lacks beds, ventilators and intensive care. You will not die, because there is not enough respiratory protection masks, gowns and gloves for the Doctors, nurses, and caregivers, to protect themselves. The column by Jan Fleischhauer you can find every Saturday in FOCUS magazine, FOCUS, Also in the new issue: The freedom, in times of disease A reminder of the best – selling author Juli Zeh +++ money! The best tips for the tax Declaration 2019 +++ Corona kitchen with three stars Massimo Bottura, the best chef in the world, serves now on Instagram +++
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What is a simple mask cost? In normal times, three to six cents in purchasing. A Kittel, as it is needed in dealing with patients, is a bit more expensive, but it also costs nothing in comparison with a ventilation device, as produced by the company, drägerwerk now in the chord. You can call the wicked irony: The best health care system in the world is in the knee, because someone forgot to put in time enough protective masks to the side.
What do you think the person responsible, such as a pandemic runs?
is not It so that you can not be warned. Be held regularly in Germany, civil protection exercises. In the Interior, and ministries of health of all the rods are entrusted with the responsibility to plan for the worst case. In 2010, 3000 experts have played out, what happens if Germany is hit by a devastating Flu epidemic. “We assume that this pandemic is coming sooner or later,” said the President of the Federal office for population protection, Christoph Unger.
What do you think the responsible people in the government, such as a pandemic runs? That always only so many people can be infected, as it will allow the stocks? Or that it hits one country after another, so that you can at any time enough to re-order in China? Some of my, now, show how broken the health system saved up to be. The health expenditures have doubled since 1992, from EUR 159 billion to 387 billion in 2018, more than a billion Euro on the day. Broken save, I am different.
You also can’t expect a country thousands of beds intensively only for the case that you get to do it with a Virus, in which the number of Infected doubles every three days. But is that enough clothes for the medical personnel is in stock: you should be able to actually trust. We write to each credit institution, how much equity to keep it ready for a crisis. Is it too much to ask for, hospitals to urge a supply of protective material that extends over two weeks?
The Mouth guard has become the Symbol of the crisis
The begging letters from the chambers of Physicians fluctuate between anger and despair. In Spain, you are gone now, from garbage bags to make protective coat. In Italy will be rehearsed, whether or not you can use surgical masks on several occasions, when you disinfected it. You can see a comfort in it, if you do not want other different. But I had honestly thought that we were better prepared. It was not always the situation in us is not comparable with that of Italy and Spain?
If you are looking for a Symbol of the crisis, then the mouth is to protect it. I have dealt in more detail with the topic, since I saw three weeks ago, a recommendation of the Robert Koch Institute, the Wear was discouraged. Firstly, the masks would bring in non-diseased nothing, just stood there, and secondly, it would take you to the hospital, where nurses and Doctors in close contact with the Infected had. My wife, I told them, was a strange contradiction. Their reaction was to look on the Internet, if one could not order something.
Some protection is still better than none
there was another Argument that masks would not function in everyday life, because most people don’t know how to set it up properly. That’s not particularly convincing, if you think about it. Most of the people know, apparently, exactly how to wash their clever hands. Still, nobody comes on the idea to say: Okay, then let me. Instead, you shall, everywhere, signs, and explains to the people how the songs achieve the two-fold singing of the children satisfactory washing results. Here Fleischhauers subscribe to the Newsletter!
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the masks-research is making progress, if I see it correctly. The latest state of knowledge, says: Yes, a simple Mouth guard helps not reliable, but some protection is still better than none. For two weeks, and we are faced with the decision whether or not to wear a Mask in Public to the duty should do. Unfortunately, it will be a largely academic discussion, if it is not possible, the home production boost. Little tip: Apparently coffee filters are excellent, if it is attached with a rubber band on the head.
investigation Committee also has the opportunity of misconceptions
We have in the Bundestag from the void reasons, committees of inquiry are used. We have entrusted a Committee of inquiry with the clarification of the question, why is Red-Green in the German Embassy in Kiev to a lot of visas were issued. We are employing for months, a Committee of inquiry, because it has not been complied with in the Ministry of defence in the awarding of consulting contracts, the tender guidelines correctly. In comparison to this, would be a Committee of inquiry into the Corona of a crisis is a worthwhile thing.
A Committee of inquiry is also the opportunity of misconceptions. One could ask, for example, the foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, why he left in the February 14 tonnes of protective clothing and disinfectants to China to deliver, without looking once before in the cellar, what then would be left of it. On a request of the research network “Correctiv” how this will have an impact on the stocks in Germany, informed the Foreign office at the beginning of March that the Federal government, in principle, ensure “that the donations in the humanitarian field have no negative impact on the supply situation in Germany”.
This statement we may regard as obsolete.
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