Coronavirus: Isolate panic makers

The corona hype is not based on any extraordinary medical danger. However, it causes considerable
damage to our freedoms and personal rights through frivolous and unjustified quarantine measures
and prohibition regulations.
WOLFGANG WODARG, March 7, 2020, 0 comments
Preliminary remark by the editor: The doctor and long-time member of the Bundestag Dr.
Wolfgang Wodarg, currently a board member of Transparency International Germany, offered this
article to several major newspapers, including the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Tagesspiegel.
Everywhere the text was rejected or the author was put off later. Wodarg was ultimately only able to
place the article in the local press. The author points out that there is also an English language
version on his website that contains numerous references. According to Wodarg, his findings will
also be on March 10 on the ZDF program Frontal 21.
The images in the media are scary and the clinical thermometer regulates the traffic in the cities of
China. The Venice Carnival was canceled after the test was positive for an elderly dying hospital
patient. When a handful of people in northern Italy also tested positive, Austria temporarily closed
the Brenner Pass. Due to a suspected coronavirus case, over 1,000 people are not allowed to leave
their hotel in Tenerife. 3,700 passengers could not get on board the cruise ship Diamond Princess.
At the beginning of February, 126 people from Wuhan were brought to Germany by plane and
remained in good health there for two weeks in quarantine. Corona viruses were detected in two of
the healthy people.
Similar horror scenarios have been repeated over the past two decades. But the “swine flu
pandemic” of the WHO was actually one of the mildest flu waves in history and “bird flu” is not the
only thing that migratory birds are waiting for today.
We are currently not measuring the incidence of coronavirus diseases, but the activity of the
specialists looking for them. All the institutions that are now warning us again about caution have
failed and failed us several times. Too often they are institutionally corrupted by secondary interests
from business and / or politics.
If you don't want to run after frivolous panic reports, but prefer to responsibly assess the risk of
spreading infection, you have to use solid epidemiological methodology. This includes looking at
the “normal”, the baseline, before you can speak of anything special.
So far, hardly anyone has been paying attention to corona viruses. For example, they only appear
marginally in the reports of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) because there were SARS in China in
2002 and because some transmissions of dromedaries to humans have been observed in Arabia
since 2012 (MERS). There is nothing about the regularly recurring presence of the corona viruses in
dogs, cats and pigs or even in humans in Germany. Pediatric clinics usually know very well that a
not inconsiderable proportion of the often difficult-to-develop viral pneumonia is also caused by
coronaviruses in Germany.
In view of the well-known fact that 7-15% of acute respiratory diseases (ARE) are always caused
by coronaviruses with each "flu wave", the case numbers that are now continuously added are still
completely within the normal range.
About one in every thousand people die from the winter infection waves. Through the selective
application of detection methods - for example only in
Clinics and medical outpatient clinics - this rate can of course easily be driven to a frightening high,
because those who need help there are usually worse off than those who cure themselves at home.
Since the turn of the year, the focus of the public, science and health authorities has suddenly
changed completely. Some doctors in Wuhan (12 million inhabitants) managed to attract worldwide
attention with initially fewer than 50 cases and individual deaths in their clinic, in which they had
proven coronaviruses as pathogens. The colored maps that are now shown to us on paper or on
screens are impressive, but mostly have less to do with illness than with the activity of competent
virologists and gangs of sensationalist rapporteurs.
Where such tests were carried out - there were almost 9,000 tests per week available in 38
laboratories across Europe on February 13, 2020 - you have almost always found what you are
looking for, and each case becomes a self-escalating media event.
Many regional clusters can already be explained by the fact that the search for a coronavirus
infection in their surroundings is particularly intensive.
The horror reports from Wuhan were something that virologists all over the world are waiting for.
The virus strains present in the refrigerators were immediately scanned and compared feverishly
with the reported newcomers from Wuhan. A laboratory at the Charité won the race at the WHO and
was able to market its in-house tests worldwide at a multiple of the usual price.
However, it is better not to be checked for corona viruses for 200 euros. Even in the case of a mild
“flu” infection, there is a 7% - 15% risk that coronaviruses will be detected after several years of
prospective studies in Scotland (from 2005 to 2013). A detection of coronaviruses would currently
have serious consequences for the everyday life of the examined and their surroundings, as can be
seen from all media without a long search.
However, the finding itself is of no clinical significance. It is just one of several names for acute
respiratory diseases (ARE) that temporarily 20% to 40% of all people temporarily out of action
each winter.
According to a good study from Scotland, the most common pathogens of acute respiratory diseases
were: 1. Rhinoviruses, 2. Influenza A viruses, 3. Influenza B viruses, 4. RS viruses and 5.
Coronaviruses. This order changed somewhat from year to year. Viruses in competition for our
mucous membrane cells also appear to have a changing quorum, as we know it from our intestines
with the microorganisms and from the Bundestag with the parties.
If there is now an increasing number of "proven" coronavirus infections in China or in Italy: Can
anyone say how often in the previous winter such examinations were carried out, with whom, for
what reason and with what results? If you say that something is getting more, you have to refer to
something that you have observed before.
It can be stunned if you as a seasoned disease guard look at the current turmoil, panic and the
suffering it creates. So it will certainly be the case for many of those responsible, who would
probably risk their jobs today as then with "swine flu" if they oppose the mainstream.
Every winter we have a virus epidemic in Germany with thousands of deaths and millions of people
infected. And corona viruses always have their part in it. So if the Federal Government wants to do
something good, it can do it like the epidemiologists in Glasgow and have the clever minds in the
RKI prospectively (!!!) observed and see how the virome of the German population grows year by
year Year changes.
Politicians must also ensure that trustworthy scientific work at the Robert Koch Institute, the Paul
Ehrlich Institute and other offices is made easier again. Working scientifically does not mean
talking politically or economically. Science is trustworthy if it uses transparent methods to question
professional and consistently alleged knowledge at any time and at any time. Even if this is
sometimes complex, it can save us some expensive health mistakes that interest-driven flu guards
want to tell us.
And for the individual, the following applies: Anyone who is exposed to quarantine measures and
suffers financial damage only because of a positive coronavirus PCR test may be entitled to
compensation under Section 56 of the Infection Protection Act. But you should also defend yourself
against a senseless deprivation of liberty.
About the author: Dr. med. Wolfgang Wodarg, born in 1947, is an internist and pulmonologist,
specialist for hygiene and environmental medicine as well as for public health and social medicine.
After his clinical work as an internist, he was, among other things, a medical officer in Schleswig-
Holstein for 13 years. In 1991 he received a scholarship from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
USA (epidemiology).
As a member of the German Bundestag from 1994 to 2009, he was the initiator and spokesman for
the Enquête Commission "Ethics and Law of Modern Medicine", member of the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe, where he was chairman of the subcommittee on health and
deputy chairman of the committee on culture, education and Science. In 2009, he initiated the
committee of inquiry into the role of WHO in H1N1 (swine flu) in Strasbourg, where he continued
to work as a scientific expert after leaving parliament. Since 2011 he has been working as a
freelance university lecturer, doctor and health scientist and on a voluntary basis as a board
member and head of health at Transparency International Germany.

Original source of the article: https://www.wodarg.com/vortr%C3%A4ge/