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This is such a bizarre take. If the ICUs are filling up, the solution should be to prevent people from getting sick, not to make the ICUs bigger. There are undoubtedly many problems in the German healthcare system, but the current surge is clearly due to the very large number of unvaccinated people.

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> the solution should be to prevent people from getting sick, not to make the ICUs bigger.

Why not both?

the two weeks were to build up health care capacity. We erected field hospitals to manage the sick and then closed them because they weren’t being used.

If this truly is an energy and hospitals truly are at risk, find a way to build more capacity even if it is temporary. Blaming the public for the failure to do this is wrong. And if you aren’t building this capacity… maybe this really isn’t an emergency?

But if we do that then the media doesn't have a scare tactic

You understand what exponential growth is? Yes? No?

You know that is hard to get people? You know how long it takes to teach someone? Especially while a pandemic is ongoing?

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