The Left Demands an Emergency Policy

"And the sack of covidiots was ready". by Mathias Bröckers [This article published on Sept 22, 2020 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=65111.] The "new normality" must not be questioned, criticism of the Corona measures is blasphemy. From the point of view of the journalist Mathias Bröckers, dealing with the critics of the corona politics has something of a religious struggle. When asked: "Do you want total protection against infection", the answer would probably be "many thousand times yes", says Bröckers. In the NachDenkSeiten interview, the best-selling author gives an insight into how he perceives the discussion about the restriction of basic rights and says what he thinks about the demos against the Corona measures. According to Bröckers, the fundamental rights interventions "must be adapted to the threat situation and in my opinion this has not been the case since May at the latest. From Marcus Klöckner. NachDenkSeiten has published numerous articles worth reading about the figures mentioned in the interview and the media coverage ... Covid-19 - pleasingly undramatic data does not justify dramatic interventions Covid-19 - a Europe-wide comparison of figures shows how unfounded and manipulative the current alarmism is What was going on in Berlin on Saturday? If you rely on reports and comments of our main media and politicians, you get a wrong picture Corona demo, Nawalny, War and Peace: The Underground State of German Media Mr. Bröckers, the demonstrations against the Corona measures were repeatedly the subject of media coverage. But can one actually still speak of "reporting"? They were discredited before they even took place. That begins with the term "Corona deniers", which in Germany has a particularly defamatory sound in the connotation of "Holocaust deniers", and then there are "conspiracy theorists" - since 9/11 the No. 1 discourse club - and the sack of "covidiots" was ready to be beaten. When surprisingly large masses of people demonstrated in Berlin on August 1, the media spasmodically reduced the number of people to a few thousand in order to be able to dismiss the whole thing as an event by a few extremists. But then on August 29th there were many more... When the media reports on the demos, one gets the impression that only conspiracy theorists, nutcases and right-wingers would take part. What is your observation?