An answer to the written question by left-wing MEP Jan Korte shows that the Seehofer Ministry does not have a current assessment of the crisis.
9.6.2020 - 19:10 , Christine Dankbar
Source: Berliner Zeitung
Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa
Berlin The Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) has apparently already concluded with the corona pandemic. At least that is how the answer to a written question by Bundestag member Jan Korte (left) reads. He had inquired at the Seehofer Ministry which strategy or scenario papers on the corona pandemic had been prepared by the BMI so far.
The Ministry needed three weeks for a very short answer. It lists the two papers that are known to the public. These are the strategy paper "How to get Covid-19 under control" and a paper on "psychosocial and sociological effects" of the crisis.
At least it is now known who was involved in the first controversial scenario. In the paper "How we get Covid-19 under control", experts advise citizens to make the effects of the crisis very drastically clear to them. As stated in "Chapter 4a. Worst case scenario", one should "get away from a communication that is centred on the case mortality rate", as many might think that this only affects the elderly.
Instead, it is advised: "To achieve the desired shock effect, the concrete effects of an infestation on human society must be made clear: Many seriously ill people are taken to hospital by their relatives, but are turned away, and die agonizingly struggling for air at home. Suffocation or not getting enough air is a primal fear for everyone."
A total of eight external scientists working at the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, the Institut der Wirtschaft Köln, the University of Lausanne and the University of Nottingham China (UNNC) contributed to the scenario paper. "The co-authors each wrote different sections," says the response from the BMI, which is available to the Berliner Zeitung. It remains unclear who wrote the drastic worst-case chapter. According to the BMI, the second paper was written without external participation.
Jan Korte, Member of Parliament for the Left and Parliamentary Secretary-General of his parliamentary group, expressed his surprise that there are no further strategy papers beyond these two scenarios. "Normally one would assume that the BMI and the Federal Government would make an effort to be always up to date in the pandemic and to analyse the constantly changing situation in a timely manner," he told the Berliner Zeitung. "How this can be achieved with only two papers, which are now months old, is beyond me. I would have expected more professionalism here."
A third paper, the "internal analysis KM 4" by BMI employee Stephan Kohn from the "Critical Infrastructure Protection" department, is not mentioned in the reply. It had been classified by Minister Seehofer as the private opinion of an employee, which did not correspond to the line of the House. Kohn had described the pandemic in it as a "false alarm".
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