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November 22, 2020

“If you can’t see the truth about COVID19” and similar circular arguments

I had an exchange on Twitter (yes I know…Twitter) about the anti-corona protests on Germany this week. I will not put up screenshots or name of the people involved because it is unnecessary for the argument and I usually find such behavior quite distasteful. Here is what I said about the protests in Berlin on the 18th of November 2020….

Politics

November 19, 2020

Can we please have a sensible COVID discussion?

I wish we could have a sensible and rational discussion about the actual dangers from COVID19 and the necessity and appropriateness of our response. Instead I have the impression that we are ending up in two opposite camps with no discussion happening between them. Essentially here in Germany we have a society that is split into two camps and both…

Politics/Society

November 10, 2020

The pandemic imperative

Germany’s top virolgist and government adviser Christian Drosten recently gave two interesting and also problematic statements [source, video speech in German] one called the pandemic imperative. Today I want to look at his nod to Kantian ethics and the categorical imperative. Handle in einer Pandemie stets so, als seist Du selbst positiv getestet, und Dein Gegenüber gehört einer Risikogruppe an….

Ethics/Philosophy

November 8, 2020

Masks are not effective every bit helps

Preface I hope you are not tired of more COVID19 content? I actually never wanted to put much about it on this blog. This was supposed to be about images and thoughts. But seeing mostly hysteria and numbers porn on mainstream media and politicians whose only solution is to restrict our freedoms I feel that we sorely lack rational voices….

Ethics/Politics

November 5, 2020

Offener Brief: Wissenschaftliche Grundlagen der aktuellen Beschränkungen zur Eindämmung von SARS-COV2

I wrote this this letter to my local government, the health ministry and chancellery. I am putting it up here in German with a translation below. I wrote it because what I see in my country is something than I can not understand with the current science. Therefore I politely asked my government to provide the scientific data on which…

Politics/Society

October 30, 2020

The Virus hates Fun or why Lockdown #2

Just to be clear this post is meant as a satire if it is not obvious. But this being the internet and some people being not equipped with what is called humor I make it explicit. If you follow me on Twitter or here you probably know that I consider most government measures against the spread of SARS-COV2 useless and…

Satire

October 15, 2020

I signed the Great Barrington Declaration

I had planned to write a couple of posts [1,2] about the many restrictions imposed upon us due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Instead I will talk about why I signed the Great Barrington Declaration. Captured by fear Although I agree that the pandemic needs a proper response I feel that the governments lost sight of their actual goal. That is…

Politics

July 26, 2020

Glance Encounter

As important as the COVID19 pandemic is I do not really want to add to the discussion. Other people are much better qualified or did more research to talk about it. I would like to share a short story I wrote on the height of the lockdown. It takes place somewhere in the near future and is about a chance…

Photography/Story

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