[Domestic Policy] RKI Files and Corona - The Health Risks were overestimated 2024-06-19

On March 20, 2024 the protocols of the German government's crisis team were published by the website Multipolar. The published protocols cover the period from January 2020 to April 2021. The release of these protocols had to be ordered by a court. Apart from the fact that the protocols were not released voluntarily they had previously been redacted. Even in this state the documents show the dishonest and manipulative approach of the government and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).

As a crisis staff it should support the government's decision-making. As a research institution the RKI should work on the basis of scientific findings. And in fact the RKI initially classified the risk as low to moderate.

Homepage aktualisiert, jetzt Risiko für Allgemeinbevölkerung alle in Deutschland “niedrig bis mäßig”, passt besser zu aktueller Einschätzung.

Homepage updated now risk for general population in Germany “low to moderate” fits better with current assessment. [1, 54 Ergebnisprotokoll 26.02.2020, P.6]

Shortly afterwards the assessment of the situation changes but without mentioning any change of the influencing factors. After an agreed announcement but without any hints in the previous protocols the result of the assessment of the situation is to change. This proves that it is a political and not a scientifically based assessment.

Es soll diese Woche hochskaliert werden. Die Risikobewertung wird veröffentlicht, sobald [geschwärzt] ein Signal dafür gibt.

It is scheduled to be scaled up this week. The risk assessment will be published as soon as [redacted] gives a signal for it. [1, 80 Ergebnisprotokoll 16.03.2020, P.6]

It is striking that corresponding numbers were generated during this period. As the number of tests were increased or scaled up. According to the RKI situation report 127,457 tests were carried out in calendar weeks 11 and 348,619 in 12. This is the period from March 9th to 22nd 2020. And inevitably the total number of positive test results has increased. According to the RKI situation report 7,582 were positive in calendar weeks 11 and 23,820 in 12. The nominal increase is obvious. But in relation to the total number of tests the positive results remained almost constant at 5.9% and 6.8%. [2, P.6]

About a year later there seems to be a preliminary agreement on the assessment. A risk is immediately suspected. However no evidence for this is provided.

COVID-19 sollte nicht mit Influenza verglichen werden, bei normaler Influenzawelle versterben mehr Leute, jedoch ist COVID-19 aus anderen Gründen bedenklich(er).

COVID-19 should not be compared to influenza more people die during a normal influenza wave but COVID-19 is more concerning for other reasons. [1, 86 Ergebnisprotokoll 19.03.2021, P.3-4]

With these findings it is obvious that the evidence for the situation assessment was manipulated. And the protocols of the Corona crisis team prove that the risk assessment was deliberately overestimated during that time.

Src:
[1] RKI Files
https://my.hidrive.com/share/2-hpbu3.3u
[2] Täglicher Lagebericht des RKI zur Coronavirus-Krankheit-2019 (COVID-19) 26.03.2020
https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/2020-03-26-de.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

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