In an interview, the chairman of the board of the Hamburg Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVH) - Walter Plassmann - criticized the federal government's current handling of the corona pandemic.
The
chairman of the board of the
Hamburg
Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians
criticizes in a
Focus ONLINE interview
.
He thinks the current tone is too
negative
and
alarmistic
.
He also criticizes the strong attention paid to the
incidence value
.
Hamburg - The
chairman of the board of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians Hamburg (KVH) Walter Plassmann
denounces in an interview with
Focus online
the
politicians'
alarmist handling of
the
corona pandemic *
.
In this context he gives several reasons.
It leads to one in the
interview
from that the probability at a
infection
with the
SARS-CoV-2 virus
becoming ill, is currently lower than in the spring.
The same applies to the risk of
dying
from Covid-19
if you
fall ill
.
On the other hand, he pointed out that the current numbers must be related to the number of tests.
This is because these have increased significantly compared to spring.
He also
criticizes
the
death
count
.
In Hamburg, only those people are
counted
as
deaths
who were found by an autopsy that they died of
Covid-19
.
However, the
RKI
counts deaths with
Covid-19
without checking whether the
viral disease led
to
death
.
The
statistics
are therefore falsified.
There are so few autopsies of
Covid dead
carried out that this is the way to
protect
forensic
doctors.
However, Plassmann
does not consider this reason to be comprehensible, as
pathologists
are trained to protect themselves from infections.
Criticism of Corona policy: "We are not statistical people, but people of flesh and blood"
In addition, the number of
deaths
is lower than expected despite the increase.
According to
Plassmann, this is
a good indicator of
better treatment for patients
: the doctors would now act better and
contain
the consequences of
viral diseases
better than at the beginning of the pandemic.
The
incidence value *
should, according to
Plassmann, be
viewed as a
political and not a scientific value
.
Its function is
to give
the
population
a brand from which stricter
measures
must be taken.
However, it is not scientifically supported.
On the one hand, this is due to the fact that the number of tests has increased, but the limit values have remained the
same
since the
outbreak of the pandemic
.
Nobody can currently judge from which
limit
a political intervention would be necessary.
According to
Plassmann,
a
more sensible alternative would be
an
index
consisting of values such as
infected people
,
number of tests
,
intensive care
patients
and
mortality
.
Above all, this decision should be made by a committee in which practicing
doctors
and
psychotherapists
are also represented.
He criticizes the fact that medical expertise from daily work with patients is currently not being sufficiently included.
The debate is largely dominated by
infectiologists
,
epidemiologists
and
physicists
, who make their statements from a statistical point of view:
"We are not statistical people, but people made of flesh and blood."
Corona pandemic outlook: "Nobody knows what Christmas is like"
Regarding the statements of
Markus Söder
,
Christian Drosten
and
Karl Lauterbach
,
Plassmann
comments
that they have not given up their “melody”:
“Everything is still black, black, black.”
He himself does not want to agree with this outlook, because
"Nobody knows what Christmas is like".
At the same time, he is pleased that the “tonality” has changed in the past few weeks.
He says, for example, that the
President of the Robert Koch Institute, Prof. Dr.
Lothar Wieler
emphasizes that the situation is still under control.
The media would also report more differently on the current situation.
Plassmann
considers the convincing statement that we still have the worst ahead of us to be
irresponsible because no one can predict it.
If this were the case, you could stop the spread.
But that's exactly where we would fail.
In
his opinion, looking for
a
scapegoat also
makes no sense.
The current situation cannot be blamed on the
young generation and parties
, because even without
parties
the numbers would have risen because the
virus
"Diffused into society".
Walter Plassmann on corona policy: Avoid absurd regulations at all costs
Plassmann
considers
the alarmist tone, which
politicians
in particular
use,
to be problematic for several reasons: It leads to people withdrawing or defending themselves.
Both options are not good.
He is of the opinion that caution is required and that the current
rules
- such as compliance with the
minimum distance
- are necessary.
Absurd regulations should be avoided, however, because they would also lead to resistance to the necessary rules.
As an example, he cites that people who
do not wear a mask
on the empty
Marienplatz in Munich
must pay
a
fine
of 250 euros.
This is not proportionate.
The
politicians
should the public trust, "to take responsibility" rather.
Because also the emotional situation of the people has to be taken into account:
"Who creates understanding for necessary measures, creates acceptance, who only threatens creates reactance."
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