German Ministry Of Health Spokesman Can’t Cite One Single Scientific Study Showing Lockdowns Are Effective

German Health Ministry spokesman gets agitated, testy, in response to a journalist’s inconvenient question

Agitated German Ministry of Health spokesman Oliver Ewald trapped by journalist, with no way out, on question of the science behind lockdowns. Image cropped from Phoenix.

It’s nice to see a journalist doing his job. Independent journalist Boris Reitschuster is doing his quite well. Currently, the German government is looking to impose even stricter lockdown measures. Liberty has been suspended indefinitely in Europe.

Not a single study

At an April 9th press conference, Reitschuster asked German Federal Ministry of Health spokesman, Oliver Ewald, if he could cite a single study indicating that lockdowns work in slowing down the pandemic, see video at Twitter link (in German), exchange translated below:

Reitschuster:

A question to Herr Ewald: Herr Ewald, [a journalist] at the WZ wrote in a report that the German government has no proof of the effectiveness of lockdowns. So my question is: what scientific studies do you have? Thank you.”

Spokesman Ewald, tries to duck the explosive question:

Herr Reitschuster, you know that as a fundamental rule, we do not assess comments from journalists, and so here I will stick to that.”

Reitschuster refuses to accept his non-answer:

There’s a misunderstanding, Herr Ewald, I only brought up a quote and then followed it up with a stand-alone question, and this question has nothing to do with the quote. I’ll gladly repeat the question once again; what scientific study…”

Before Reitschuster can finish, Ewald, clearly irritated,  cuts him off:

When you read one sentence from this comment here and request an assessment without, so to speak, providing further context or basis, I can’t say anything on that.”

Reitschuster refuses to let it go and presses for an answer to the simple question:

Completely without the sentence, for the third time, what scientific study does the German government have? Thank you.”

We all know there is no study that supports lockdowns, and so spokesman Ewald is clearly trapped, and goes coldly silent for a couple of seconds – you can hear a pin drop. Ewald, who now looks as if he’s about to explode in anger, responds:

I’ve said what I have to say say on that!”

Reitschuster:

Absolutely nothing.”

This is what the German government, and many countries around the world, have based their lockdowns on. Nada.

“Follow the science,” they tell us. Unfortunately when it comes to COVID-19 lockdowns, there isn’t any.

German TV propaganda

On a separate note, the massive German ARD public broadcasting network is in cahoots with the government, and both seem to have a vested interest in spreading fear among the population. To help do that, ARD recently revised its color scheme for the 7-day incidence level chart. Here it is:

ARD German television 7-day color-coded Corona incidence chart. March 17 on the left and the new one of April 9 on the right. 

Now a 7-day incidence level of 50 is bloody red. Hey, why by coy when it comes to scaring the bejesus out of the citizenry? Let’s just get right down to full-blown alarmism!

Just like climate alarmism: where 0.5°C of warming is now red-hot.




19 responses to “German Ministry Of Health Spokesman Can’t Cite One Single Scientific Study Showing Lockdowns Are Effective”

  1. aussie

    There are plenty of studies showing lockdowns of no benefit vs other methods, and often considerably worse. I read details of a Swedish study yesterday showing lockdowns kill more people than covid.

    You are quite right to highlight this terrible situation. Govts need to “follow the science” and stop lockdowns immediately.

    Link below to compilation of studies showing lockdowns of no significant effect.

    https://thefatemperor.com/published-papers-and-data-on-lockdown-weak-efficacy-and-lockdown-huge-harms/

  2. oebele bruinsma

    It is unfortunately only an exercise in control by “unsere Regierung” who are awaiting our reaction.

  3. Tim

    Australian state lockdowns, especiallyWest Australia, and New Zealand seem to work

    1. John F. Hultquist

      Such is not the same as locking up (lockdowns) sick and well in small rooms and poorly vented buidings. Said another way: New York nursing homes and Western Australia have few similar characteristics.
      I will take a pass on the German experience.

    2. Aussie

      If you are referring to those in QLD think again. These short and suddenly sprung affairs (two so far) have been completely unjustified and have caused severe damage to the tourism sector here as well as other areas.

      It is now so bad that interstate tourists either do not come, or come for far shorter periods or book very late. This is because of fear of being thrown into quarantine for 2 weeks (I just managed to avoid this one time by 15 mins due to sudden announcement by govt) or losing deposit money. Similarly many work contacts report delays or cancellations in interstate business visits, and difficulties getting interstate companies to come to do needed service work etc.

      The latest debacle was calculated to have cost Queensland hundreds of millions even though it was 3 days.

      And now we have an inexplicable masking, for no reason until the end of the week. And yet we know that supposedly infectious people roamed around the community for days without infecting anybody at all.

      Sorry, I can’t speak for WA but the QLD ones we completely unnecessary and have produced only bad outcomes.

      Lockdowns don’t work and are completely catastrophic for those locked down.

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  6. richard

    Department of Health- “In conclusion there is limited data indicating that mass gatherings are associated with influenza transmission and this theme is continued with the inclusion of new evidence for the update”

    https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/316200/Mass_Gatherings_evidence_Review.pdf?fbclid=IwAR30_xspa2r6NfMMOJzzHmZRjkT_QTHYug1eOyG0GKEX2yz_i3NRV-ttGFo

  7. Yonason

    “… the massive German ARD public broadcasting network is in cahoots with the government…”

    Same everywhere in the west. The media have become an extension of special interests in government, as opposed to a watchdog to prevent the overreach of those special interests, which are nearly always socialist and criminal – but I repeat myself. I don’t know how or even if that can be fixed.

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  10. Petit_Barde

    Lockdowns do not work :

    Abstract :

    “We tested major indices from five domains (demography, public health, economy, politics, environment) and their potential associations with Covid-19 mortality during the first 8 months of 2020, through a Principal Component Analysis and a correlation matrix with a Pearson correlation test.”

    “Stringency of the measures settled to fight pandemia, including lockdown, did not appear to be linked with death rate.”

    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.604339/full

    1. Aussie

      Thanks, I have added this to the other 30+ papers and studies I have here showing lockdowns don’t work.

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