Death by mask? "Lateral thinkers" spread bad rumors - "truth content equal to zero"

A man is said to have died in a facility for the disabled in Tölzer Land while wearing a mask intended as corona protection.

But the rumor is untrue - like so many.

• In Tölzer Land, a man is said to have died because of the corona mask.

• At least that is what the “lateral thinking 8041” group claims.

• The rumor is easy to refute.

Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen

- A child is said to have died wearing

-

like this have been wafting through

for weeks

The

.

Nevertheless, similar stories continue to be spread, especially by corona skeptics - now also in Tölzer Land.

Tobias Schmid, spokesman for the organization

, which regularly

calls

for demos against the

, informed the Tölzer Kurier that he had received the information “from different sides” that there was “a

in a disabled workshop in the district

, the one with the

had to work ”.

Corona in Bavaria: death by mask?

"We are not aware of any case"

In an anonymized email that Schmid forwarded to the editorial team, it is reported that the man fell over while

and had

.

All

attempts at

were unsuccessful until he was finally

declared

in a clinic

.

The mail also reports that the employee who called the ambulance after the man's collapse got into trouble with his boss for his actions.

When asked, Schmid could not say which workshop for the handicapped.

You can find all information on the current situation of the corona pandemic in the district here.

Facilities of this type are the Oberland workshops in Gaißach and Geretsried.

When asked by our newspaper, managing director Oliver Gosolits says: “None of the Oberland workshops is aware of such a case.

There has generally been no

recent

in

any of

our facilities.

Especially not because of the

"

Video: Just a month ago there was a comparable duck

More and more false rumors about rescue operations

In theory, of course, it could have been another facility.

The Integrated Control Center (ILS), which coordinates the rescue services, should in any case have to know about a corresponding operation.

Sohrab Taheri-Sohi, spokesman for the Bavarian Red Cross (BRK), which is responsible for the ILS Oberland, explains that there has not been any use of this kind in a

facility in the entire rescue service area of ​​the ILS Oberland in recent weeks

.

“It has happened again and again recently that such rumors have been spread,” says Taheri-Sohi.

"We are

in which there is an

has come."  

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