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You may not consider "amusing that people get so triggered" to necessarily be "emotionally charged", but it certainly doesn't provide a lot of information or value to HN, and I think that it'll stir up other people's emotions.
Similarly, "objectively bad policies" is a very strong assertion to phrase something with a lot of political dialog around it, and like much of that other political dialogue, doesn't do a whole lot to back it up.
The guidance seemed to be randomly generated at times, and kept changing.
While I'm not familiar with the reasoning in Germany, in general in most countries the AZ vaccine has been discontinued (or at least largely discontinued; most places still use it for people who are allergic to an ingredient shared by the mRNA ones) because it is less effective than the mRNA ones, and believed to be _much_ less effective for Omicron.
What? It’s still getting used.
EDIT: yes, there was talk about banning it after months of denial. And its my mistake for conflating other EU countries that care about their citizens with Germany, which clearly doesn't.
> until it was finally pulled off the market in Germany.
Lauterbach, who was not health minister at the time, is reported as saying it is likely there are too many hospitals in central locations rather than smaller clinics spread out. It's not his plan and he explicitly calls its specifics "wrong and overstated."
(And he's not wrong - in Berlin one can get amazing treatment in any specialty in our hospitals - if one could get a referral from a GP, which there aren't any of.)