Is Germany's restrictive 2G system for the unvaccinated based on a lie?
To justify socially oppressive and economically harmful 2G COVID-19 restrictions on the unvaccinated, Peter Tschentscher, the left-wing mayor of Hamburg who is also a medical doctor, deliberately misled the public, citing patently false information which suggested nearly all of those infected...
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The mayor of Hamburg is being accused of using false data to back up draconian 2G restrictions, which he successfully lobbied many German states to adopt across the country
To justify socially oppressive and economically harmful 2G COVID-19 restrictions on the unvaccinated, Peter Tschentscher, the left-wing mayor of Hamburg who is also a medical doctor, deliberately misled the public, citing patently false information which suggested nearly all of those infected with COVID-19 were unvaccinated, according to German media news reports.
The SPD mayor’s false claim that 95 percent of people infected with COVID-19 in Hamburg had not been vaccinated paved the way for the state’s Senate — ruled by a coalition between the Greens and the SPD — to become the first federal state in Germany to introduce the so-called 2G system. Following the introduction of the 2G measures in his state, Tschentscher then lobbied publicly for the 2G system to be applied throughout the entire Federal Republic of Germany.
On Nov. 16, Tschentscher justified the corona measures with the high incidence value of the unvaccinated, saying, “Of our 3,452 new infections this calendar week, over 90 percent are in people without full vaccination protection,” said the mayor during a press conference.
The mayor’s honesty and integrity were both brought into question when his colleague Anna-Elisabeth von Treuenfels-Frowein, a lawmaker for the Free Democratic Party (FDP), submitted an information request to the Hamburg Senate which ultimately revealed that the number of unvaccinated individuals infected with COVID-19 was significantly lower than Tschentscher had claimed.
Epidemiological data from calendar week 35 — which began on Aug. 30 and ended on Sept. 5 — that was released by the Senate showed that 68.3 percent of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were unvaccinated. More recently, however, a mere 14.3 of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 were unvaccinated. The figures were further skewed by the fact that all cases where the patient’s vaccination status had been unknown were included in the unvaccinated category.
Despite the Hamburg mayor claiming in a press conference on Nov. 16, 2021 that 95 percent of the cases of infected people were unvaccinated during calendar week 45, the data released by the state’s Senate at the behest of Treuenfels-Frowein’s request revealed that 63.2 percent of patients infected with COVID-19 had an unknown vaccination status, 22.5 percent were vaccinated, and 14.3 percent were unvaccinated.
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