Open Letter to Chancellor Merkel
Dear Chancellor,
As Emeritus of the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz and longtime director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology, I feel obliged to critically question the far-reaching restrictions on public life that we are currently taking on ourselves in order to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
It is expressly not my intention to play down the dangers of the virus or to spread a political message. However, I feel it is my duty to make a scientific contribution to putting the current data and facts into perspective – and, in addition, to ask questions that are in danger of being lost in the heated debate.
The reason for my concern lies above all in the truly unforeseeable socio-economic consequences of the drastic containment measures which are currently being applied in large parts of Europe and which are also already being practiced on a large scale in Germany.
My wish is to discuss critically – and with the necessary foresight – the advantages and disadvantages of restricting public life and the resulting long-term effects.
To this end, I am confronted with five questions which have not been answered sufficiently so far, but which are indispensable for a balanced analysis.
I would like to ask you to comment quickly and, at the same time, appeal to the Federal Government to develop strategies that effectively protect risk groups without restricting public life across the board and sow the seeds for an even more intensive polarization of society than is already taking place.
With the utmost respect,
Prof. em. Dr. med. Sucharit Bhakdi
Also: A remarkable Video interview (In German with English subtitles):
Dr Sucharit Bhakdi: Corona virus COVID-19- hype & hysteria?
Demystification of the nightmare!
“All these measures are leading to self-destruction and collective suicide because of nothing but a spook.”
Some points Prof. Bhakdi makes in this remarkable interview:
In Germany, normally 2,200 people over 65 old die every day. Many of them carry coronavirus; let’s say 1% have covid-19, that would make 22 deaths per day. But the main cause of death was not covid-19.
What we are doing is to prevent that these 22 coronavirus deaths are replaced by the 30 covid positive patients. But we do not realise that 20, 30 or 100 patients positive for normal coronavirus are already dying everyday.
The current containment measures are grotesque, absurd and very dangerous.
Our elderly citizens have every right to make efforts not to belong to the 2,200 that daily embark on their last journey.
Social contacts and social events, theater and music, travel and recreation, sports and hobbies, etc all help to prolongue their stay on earth.
Now the life expectancy of millions is being shortened…
All these measures are leading to self-destruction and collective suicide because of nothing but a spook,
https://swprs.org/open-letter-from-professor-sucharit-bhakdi-to-german-chancellor-dr-angela-merkel/