The big headlines in the Dutch newspapers yesterday, about a corona scandal in Germany, are in stark contrast to today's front page. They have already finished talking about it.
Quite alarming headlines about faraway Germany
In the Netherlands, we form at least one front: support, despite everything!
On to the order of the day.
The German affair seemed to be a fuse in the powder keg for a while, but it ends with a fizzle again, apparently it is well wet in the journalistic cover-up. No miss can stop the thundering train. It will be a bit later, that parliamentary inquiry and criminal prosecutions.
But how bad is that, this cooperation between politics and science? I was always in favor of it myself, for example in energy policy. It's different now.
Society is being destroyed. Irrational, without scientific substantiation and even with a lot of scientific resistance. That's not science; It is more reminiscent of the climate tables: the ruthless pushing through of an irrational agenda. Ideology or fear, does it matter much?
Politiek&wetenschap permitteert zich nogal wat
As a result of the riot in Germany, Mattias Desmet wonders how far the process is in Belgium and whether science there would also be involved in scaring the population. Apparently he has never sat out Jaap van Dissel for half an hour, then he squeaked differently. An impression of the situation in NL.
We have introduced measures solely to influence behavior. Fear mongering. People simply added that the measures did not help against the spread of the disease itself. It was to make a point. That was a psychological experiment and mayors were asked to use it at their own discretion, so that they could see what helped best - you must have Bruls as chairman of the security council. In any case: that is no science, no protocols, no medical ethics. Doctors have been pilloried for less (even after the war).
The state doctors did not intervene on this coercive manipulation. They also see something like this as a (welcome) 'necessity' that also makes clear the seriousness of their case and the importance of their performance. There is also an active Red Team of citizens that received a good platform because their messages and recommendations are even stronger than what comes from politicians. Nothing further is done with their advice, but the horror scenarios are of course useful, as the politics are mild (and therefore 'reasonable'). Scientists who put things into perspective are silenced in various and unsavory ways. They resort to YouTube or their own websites, considered 'obscure' by the MSM.
We have also heard medical government advisors in the Dutch media who say that more fear must be aroused to achieve the right behavior. Just in the news, in the newspaper. You can't be surprised about that now, can you? That was just in the media, very transparent. Not a critical note to be found, it was just the way it was.
Media do not reflect and certainly not on themselves
The media was appalled by the Kongsi politics/science. It is interesting to note that they do not mention their own role as an enthusiastic communications agency of this kongsi (it is actually a 'propaganda machine' but that sounds so WWII). Uncritical, uncritical, hyperbolic, anecdotal dramas, biased experts, silencing opposing voices, withholding context, character assassination, distorting figures, misinterpretation - no technique has been left unused. They even received extra money from the government because of 'the extra work that corona had asked of the media'. That was - and is again today - considered completely normal.
The media, no more than the ministers and scientists, do not realize how wrong they are doing. The first intention was 'for their own good', but that is no longer sustainable. The media are no better at this than the collaborating politicians and scientists about whom they report indignantly. Hopefully that has become clear to everyone.
Now the courts, because incomprehensible scenes have also taken place there. How do you bring judges to court?
