By P Gosselin
Germany’s federal health minister makes up 300,000 fictional heat deaths, accused of spreading fear through the public.
Now that the Corona pandemic has been exposed as being for the most part as a large-scale vaccine swindle and government overreach, Germany’s federal minister of health Karl Lauterbach, SPD Socialists, has now shifted his focus on to a new scare story: summer heat deaths.
The solution: more government control.
Recently Lauterbach introduced his National Heat Protection Plan, claiming that there are between 5,000 and 20,000 heat-related deaths each and every summer. Especially older, chronically ill people, pregnant women, newborns and small children are at risk, according to Lauterbach. Lockdowns in some form or another may be needed when the weather is hot.
Lauterbach feels that the alleged summer heat death numbers 5,000 to 20,000 are more than enough to justify the implementation of a drastic nationwide heat protection plan. However, it turns out Lauterbach has wildly exaggerated the numbers by nearly 10,000 a year!
The newly created Nius.de here reports on Lauterbach’s gross exaggeration, and presents the true figures going back to 1990 (blue bars):
Chart: Nius.de
Lauterbach claims 5,000 to 20,000 (orange) die from heat in Germany annually, but the blue colored bars tell the reality.
Wildly exaggerated
Nius.de calls Lauterbach’s figures “completely made up”, and adds: “In 25 of the past 31 years there have been fewer than 5000 heat deaths, and in 17 of those years fewer than 2000. So Lauterbach is inventing tens of thousands of heat deaths.”
The mean of Lauterbach’s 5000 to 20,000 is 12,500. But the real mean from 1992 to 2022 is about 2500, which would mean Lauterbach made up some 300,000 fictional heat deaths for the period. That’s more than 100 deaths per summer day!
From or with heat
When NIUS asked the Federal Ministry of Health multiple times on which data basis Lauterbach made his claims, they never got an answer.
Perhaps Lauterbach now counts heat deaths like Corona deaths: If a patient dies from or during a heat wave, than the cause of death is heat.
Nius.de adds: “The figure of up to 20,000 heat deaths would indeed be disturbing – if it were not highly unserious. But that doesn’t move the minister at all. Following France’s example, he wants to be allowed to cancel events when it is very hot.”
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What about cold deaths? They are bound to increase as the energy system collapses.
I think you might be onto something there-
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Lauterbach, and his cohorts, should be heel-hauled, as punished for unwarranted scare-mongering
Keel hauled.
I tried to correct the typo, but was not allowed
I rather liked the mental picture of heel-hauling.
? tie a weight around their necks and loop ankles in the keel line so that only their feet/heels drag across the keel ?
Not for long.
I’m certain Germany will do just fine in the winter with solar powered electric heat. It’s always so bright and sunny, with such long days, in the winter, in Germany…
Do note that the UK is finding that solar panels do not like sunny days, as they overheat and lose efficiency. The US just had a large solar panel farm completely destroyed by hail. Sturdy structures, they are not. Then, there is keeping them clean because even dust can lower their efficiency. Oh, wait, they also age and drop in efficiency quite a lot i 5 to 10 years, even leaking toxic metals into the ground. Yeah, what was we waiting for?
A friend, an engineer, who lives a few miles from me had solar panels installed over a decade ago (overall, the electric company pays him). He has kept track of their output, and has seen maybe 1-2 % degradation in that time. So, there are well-made solar panels, and there are the rest.
They will probably just recategorize “cold deaths” as “deaths due to climate change”, then lump them all together. Now, due to the greens sabotaging the electrical grid, causing many more cold deaths, they will have a larger headline figure of “climate change” deaths to use for their propaganda. I wish I was being sarcastic.
It could be called Schutzhaft (protective custody).
Incidentally Wikipedia tells me the hottest month recorded in Berlin was July 1834.
Take a screenshot of the page before the climate censor at Wikipedia changes it to a more approved version.
Yep, It should be forbidden for Germans to go on holidays to warm countries (or even leave their ghetto). Only IPCC members should go there in private jets for their meetings.
And what was that temperature?
Everyone knows the only time politicians lie is when their lips are moving. You really do have to wonder about a democratic system that trows this sort of rubbish up. Its not just Germany, its everywhere.
Every politician is a dictator in the make. That’s why they became politicians. The thing is they are just puppets used by those who really are in power to take our rights away. Follow the yellow brick road.
Yes. They are party puppets. Political parties only attract a particular type of person. Make your representatives independent and they will not have that type of power. They can be powerful but of a different sort that is totally absent at present.
In current democracies, faith in the political system might be the deepest and most widespread in the populace. Faith lives quite naturally on habitual invocations of improbable concepts.
Everyone knows someone who died with Covid.
Hardly anyone knows anyone who has died of heat related causes.
By conflating the two you are doing the propagandists work for them.
I don’t know anyone who died of Covid
Me either. The experience of people that I know who contracted ranged from “I didn’t know I had it” to “the worst case of ‘flu I ever had”. All survived.
Nor me. Indeed, in our local “area” (as defined by whoever) which was in effect, a five mile radius around the Somerset market town Frome, six died of Covid. How many were killer by it, rather than “they had it when they died, at least a totally useless test says they did”, is another matter.
They could have had one or more other conditions, but adding COVID “done the mostly older/decrepit people in”.
The medical complex, aided and abetted by the scare-mongering government and lapdog media, made tens of $billions, classifying people as having/dying of COVID, because there were drugs to be sold, and money to be made, and papers and ads to be sold, and national regimentation methods being implemented and refined
“done the mostly older/decrepit people in”. My theory is that that demographic? is/was unable to get enough Sun absorbtion or D Vitamin.
Me: Everyone knows someone who died with Covid.
You: I don’t know anyone who died of Covid
People with such poor reading comprehension skills should probably avoid commenting on propaganda techniques.
You are doing the propagandists work for them.
MCourtney has a valid point: counting anyone who dies and happens to have covid as a covid death does not mean they died OF covid, but was how the counting was done. I thought this was already accepted.
I know someone who died WITH covid. In a traffic accident. It was still counted as a covid death.
I don’t know anyone who died OF covid, as in, covid was the proximate cause of death.
And I don’t know anyone who died of or with COVID, thereby refuting your hypothesis. Dr Feynman says you have to start over.
You: “Everyone knows someone who died with Covid”
Me: “Everyone knows more people that died with the Vaccine than died with the Covid.”
Obviously. As everyone took the vaccine.
But most people realise that they would not have taken a vaccine for Covid if there was no Covid. It all links to Covid. Emotionally speaking, you are doing the propagandists work for them.
Again, ‘everyone’ ….
(If you feel the need to exaggerate, you must realize some subconscious deficiency with your point).
Most people I know (although they do not realize it) would not have taken a ‘vaccine’ for anything like the Covid virus if they had been told the entire truth about the efficacy & hazards associated
Many of the folks in the vicinity of where I reside, never wore a mask (other than Doctor or Hospital visits..required-or-you-don’t-get-in), did not ‘social distance’, and few took the jab. I do not know of anyone dying of Covid during the ‘period’, though I do suspect one death.
I know of many people who died of Covid. Just ask a health care professional.
Through autopsy examinations? Kindly do not forget that many, many “health care professionals” abandoned the Truth for “fear” of job loss.
I know of a lot of people that died from forced ventilators
No they don’t, you’re doing ‘auto-suggestion‘ or ‘recovered memories‘
i.e Hideous brainwashing techniques used by liars, cheats, scoundrels propagandists and now, to epic extent: Governments.
We all know ‘someone who died’ but what really actually killed them is often a mystery mixture of myriad possibilities.
People die
Climate changes
With with it or die
There are plenty folks out the who looked at Covid Vaccines and found no actual biologic material in them but what they all had in them was Aluminium..
Read the attached and weep – for the people that died of Aluminium poisoning whether you knew them or not.
See the symptoms = a lot of them= exactly what ‘Covid’ did to people
See those sorts of deaths still ongoing, esp in the UK’s present ‘excess death rate’ – at a 50 year high.
Oh you say, “Aluminium is everywhere and doesn’t poison anybody”
Fine yes maybe but all those sources of Ally are not water-soluble, or bioactive, and are NOT normally injected directly into your bloodstream – where the stuff becomes incalculably more toxic
Even before they were deficient in Vitamins A, B, C, D and E,
Also Copper, Iodine, available Iron, Zinc, Selenium, Cobalt, Lithium, Manganese and certainly not least, Magnesium. Probably nowadays also Sodium
While chowing down on ‘food’ laced with Glyphosate – which actively sucks those things right out of you. On top of it being a potent antibiotic
Also before epic consumption of sugar has wrecked most vestiges of their immune systems
You know ‘people who died‘, everybody does, but does even pause to think that 90%+ of them died of heavy metal poisoning, antibiotic abuse, a myriad of nutrient deficiencies.
And a diet that is actually ‘nutrient negative’ – because that is what ‘fibre’ and glyphosate do
iow: They died of starvation – most of it self inflicted and almost all of it by following Government Guidance
Not forgetting the joke about the man run over by a bus who… died of COVID
https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-spike-goes-to-every-organ-system-dr-paul-marik-on-mrna-in-the-covid-19-vaccine-vs-natural-infection-cheap-and-effective-treatments-and-interventions_5281130.html
curiously enough I and no one I know , know a single person dead of covid!
in a town of 400 majority of us are 60+ and most are 80s a few cases but zero deaths.
I DO know personally 3 who had severe adverse events from the jabs and related to friends another 2 with serious heart issues
One of the severe reactions died- a dear friend sadly missed.vaccine on tues ,in hospital with lung clots wed am died a few weeks later of complications.
Personally 4 of my friends,and my sister , who were vaccinated now suffer continual chest infections and sinus problems they never had prior.
I took ivermectin monthly for 2 yrs and only when I slacked off due to running low within 2mths I got covid. go figure
same for me with respect to ivermectin.
I took care of my daughter (twice … she got it once before the vaccine and once after) and did not get it (even though ‘I am not a horse’). I have not taken any of the ‘vaccines’.
I slacked off towards the end (couldn’t buy/find the paste, and simply used the topical; where I live the pills for people were not available) and delivered the Plaxlovid to my sick 81 year old mom (who had been vaccinated).
It’s unfortunate that it’s not sold OTC because it’s safer than Tylenol
Just because something happens to you does not mean it happens to everyone.
The classic example is when the outcomes for children of single mothers is mentioned.
Single mothers always pipe up saying, well one of children is a doctor and another is a teacher, so you are wrong.
But, overall the stats are correct and individual experience is no indicator.
It also demonstrates the problem of using averages….
In the UK there are currently 228,277 deaths with Covid.
With a populatiom of about 70 million that means you would only need to have 300 acquaintances to know somone who died with Covid {Population / Deaths with Covid}.
I doubt anyone has 300 friends but 300 people you know? Seems plausible.
And if that still seems too high consider one step removed; you know someone who knew somone who died with Covid. That’s a certainty. Square root of 300 is about 17.5. You must know double that number of people.
In the USA (with its larger and more dispersed population) the figures are about 450 and 22.
By ignoring people’s real world experiences and conflating different issues you are doing the propagandists’ work for them.
I’ve been pondering propaganda quite a bit lately. I believe it’s insidious in its effect.
Never say “everyone”. You just set yourself up to be contradicted.
Only by pedants.
The point was clear. And I am still right, practically speaking.
As Covid was never isolated anywhere, it did not exist. The PCR test was patented as a Covid-19 test in 2015 (how can that be? but it was). It is clear this was a plan to weaponize the cold and flu season using a test that is really generic for coronaviruses (which includes cold and flu and panicking the public) and thus rename all of them Covid-19. This explains why “Covid” had so many different symptoms.
It was the misuse, abuse, and medical neglect, banning of effective pharmaceuticals, lockdowns, stress, ventilators, and non-application of antibiotics for pneumonia that killed many people, including those with comorbidities.
Then, they introduced the jabs based on unproven gene therapy and the spike protein which is known to be toxic (they also engineered it to be worse). The jabs could not do what they claimed, made people get sick more easily, sicker when infected, and die, more often. So, the jabs have killed even more, not to mention decreasing our immune systems (10–15% per jab) for future disease.Keep an eye on the next 4 to 5 years for continuing high excess deaths.
Great and Accurate Post, Thanks. Repeat, Repeat, Repeat. “The Public requires these Facts”.
Do you mean “knows of” someone who died with Covid? And did you intentional write “with Covid” instead of “from Covid?”
I meant “Knows” as in they had an acquaintance with someone who died with Covid. On reflection “knows someone who knew…” would have been better. The point I was trying to make was that Covid has been experienced by almost everybody,
And I deliberately used “with” not “of” as causation of deaths is quite contentious.
I stand by my point. By conflating two different issues you are doing the Green propagandists work for them.
People do know of deaths with Covid. People do know that insensitivity to that is rude and hurtful and wrong.
Linking AGW to that emotionally-self-defeating argument is a silly thing to do.
Everyone knows (acquaintance, etc, knows someone who knows, etc) someone that has died ‘with the vaccine’.
Just, as ‘everyone’ knows some that has died ‘with covid’.
Just as ‘everyone’ does know someone that has died ‘on a hot day’.
Well done.
You’re as bad as the “hottest day ever”, no one in my huge extended family nor friends died either with or from Covid. Hence not everyone.
I know of 5 covid related deaths (friends, relatives, relatives of friends, friends of friends, friends of relatives, etc.).
I know of 4 heart/bleeding vaccine related deaths (same as above).
Only one of the covid is straight Covid … “yes, you are sick … go home and stay away from others … if you start to die, call us.” His sister found him dead. The other 4 had significant other problems to start with.
Bottom line, all government data is suspect. But your readers already knew that. .
The actual data says the average heat related deaths/year is 2,500. The alarmist scare monger spokesperson says it is averaged at 12,500.
That five fold uplift of reality is about on par with the imaginary uplift in global temperature expected to be achieved by 2100 by the Climate Alarmists.
The alarmists suggest 2.5 to 5.00 deg. C uplift by 2100. The scientific projections suggest between 0.5 deg. C to 1.0 deg. C.
The other point worth making is no one knows how much of the uplift is due to human inputs and how much is natural variation.
Enjoy life, we live in a very benign climate with life being made ever more comfortable by technology and modern innovations.
odd how in Aus with temps in some areas running at 30c and over for months on end we dont have those sort of heat deaths? babes or aged or inbetween.
and even in the high 30s to 40c figures like that dont exist either
I’m waiting for it to warm up a bit before going on a bicycle ride here in Colorado. In Phoenix Arizona, people are waking up to temps already over 30C on there way to over 40C in the afternoon.
Amazingly, there are people who move to Arizona for its weather. I suppose because it is dry and winter temperatures are moderate.
Being whittled away.
“Making Up “Tens of Thousands of Heat Deaths””
Why?
“”Fear is motivating’ says Chris Packham
The “terror factor” generated by the new BBC series Earth – which re-creates a climate change event that wiped out most species 250 million years ago – could help “spur us on to do something” about the environment crisis, according to its presenter, Chris Packham.””
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/10/fear-motivating-chris-packham-bbc-series-re-creates-extinction-event
It’s all they’ve got
Chris Packham is obsessive. It’s a feature of autism I believe.
He should be put out of his misery
He’s a misanthrope. Should’ve taken his own advice.
Would you say that the propaganda used to create this fear is a form of terrorism?
It’s a new trend in politics. Very practical to shove all the vaccine related excess deaths under the umbrella of heat deaths while promoting climate change policies.
Ignoring my doubts about ever confidently measuring “excess deaths” (however you define an excess death): there will be people on the verge of death whose end was sadly hastened by a day or two or maybe a month or two during a heatwave. No one wants to die and I certainly don’t want to die uncomfortable—maybe while I am too warm.
Excess deaths is a tricky concept statistically and morally. The minister may be as sincere as he is fearful, but he’s flirting with blackmail. “Give up your way of life or the sick baby gets it!!
No noble cause was ever well-served by that kind of talk.
We will never know how many will die earlier than they might have because the healthcare system couldn’t afford to look after them because we unilaterally de-industrialized or drove our largest tax-paying energy companies to other shores.
[Edit: put back the bit I accidentally deleted.]
Very good point.
40,000 deaths from poor air quality in London was reported some years ago by a group of doctors. Within minutes it was all over the news.
Then the claim was examined and it turns out these were mostly people at the end of life and their life expectation was subjectively assessed to range from a few minutes to a couple of days by these activist doctors.
Some healthcare deaths are better than others.
https://headlineusa.com/nurse-fired-over-fatal-parking-lot-sex-w-patient/
She is responsible for one happy ending. She gets fired.
Fauci is responsible for 100,000 miserable deaths, he gets the biggest retirement package in the USA Federal govt.
I would rather get screwed by the nurse, than by Fauci.
I can’t think of a better way to leave this world, and in Wrexham of all places!
Jung has it. CAGW is a “psychic epidemic” and Cult Transgender another.
In Civilization in Transition Jung states that this proverb “is a sad yet eternal truism” and our wolf-like tendencies come most prominently into play at those times of history when mental illness becomes the norm, rather than the exception in a society, a situation which Jung termed a psychic epidemic.
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
“Im stealing Cult transgender” 😉 thanks
hmm just a thought?
would such outright LIES like that be more than removeable and action required(due to the position) as MIS/dis info?
seeing as the eu want to apply such to the hoipolloi it should apply to them as well
It is not misinformation if it’s from the government.
Is that Feral Health Minister Karl Lauterbach?
I think people can decide for themselves when it’s too hot to attend an event, not some bureaucrat.
I wonder if the Northern European governments are planning to ‘cancel’ all business trips to warmer climes? Cancel all family holidays to, say, Alicante because it is far too warm? My question is; what will the Spanish government do about their populace? Send the whole population North to cooler climes? It’s a load of ‘Horlicks’.
Right, no more fancy conventions/events for governments, especially the IPCC in warm climates. We must demand that the IPCC events are to be held in Siberia or Labrador- in the winter and they have to get there by EVs.
Do you know, I am convinced I saw a pink pig fly past my window!
President Joe Biden is visiting the UK today and, apart from Airforce 1 he had Marine 1 and 2 waiting for him at Stansted Airport to fly him to the US Embassy. He arrived at Downing Street with 4 of his (US registered) (black) Armoured vehicles which included a small army of, I suppose, were, Secret Service personnel. It doesn’t end there. There must have been, and I will try and not exaggerate, 20 aides tagging along as well to assist him. That’s only what I saw. I wonder if he, like King Charles, has an aide to put his toothpaste on his toothbrush as well? Of course, he will certainly have, not forgetting, his Dresser making sure his shoes are polished and his shirt is nicely starched!
IS Joe the King of Climate Change?
I saw a documentary once that said Louis 14th always had someone wipe his butt for him. 🙂
Since the precedent has been set, I hope that Joe gives Charles a fart worthy of a king.
Well, I worked for some years in a Nursing Home, but that action I undertook because the ‘doer’ could not. Didn’t there use-to-be a cigarette called “Royal”?
I am just so curious as to which aide is responsible for bring the extra diaper and change of clothes. Do the other aides give him a hard time about his extra responsibilities … do they have a back up plan if the first guy gets sick and can’t be there to ensure a quick change is available. Do they have a list of excuses, in preferential order, to explain his ‘issues’ if they do occur? Do his back-up diapers need to have a chain of custody, to ensure they are safe and have not been tampered with in a manner that could cause him harm; which aide takes on this responsibility … will he be allowed to state it on future resumes?
And yet somehow in New Mexico, where it gets vastly hotter, we manage to avoid those deaths, even accounting for the difference in population.
Looking at his image, I wouldn’t be surprised if he said, “How’s yer mother off for dripping?”
(Charles Hawtry)
Story tip;
another greentard fail
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/green-deal-eu-goes-unfunded-expect-total-collapse
Ha, what would be his death numbers from cold, which kills more that eight times those from heat. We also have A/C for summer, but maybe he is assuming Germany will have no electricity or have blackouts.
What was the “Corona pandemic?”
COVID-19 comes from a Corona virus. Corona virus common colds are common in East Asia and the Pacific Rim. About one third of common colds on the USA Pacific coast come from a Corona virus.
It’s all made up, innit? It seems all the “facts” used in climate scare stories are actually estimates, projections, or model results instead of actual measurements.
All those heat deaths! I guess he better stop anybody from Germany going to this year’s climate COP 🙂
As with all alarmist grifters like this, Vince, Kerry etc, they should be invited to take part in a live televised debate with world renowned climate realists where we can see first hand how their science stacks up against the real science – it’s the sure fired way to expose their self serving misinformation, or a great opportunity to educate them if they really are ignorant of the true facts around climate change, renewables etc etc
“… when it is very hot.” So typically unscientific – what is “hot” in Germany is a pleasant summer’s day in Texas, or here in California. (Lived in Germany for 2.5 years – reported temperatures were never “hot”.)
Germany’s southern border is north of Seattle! How often do summer temperatures even reach the 90s F in Germany? Seattle had record 100+ F heat a couple years ago – but close to zero heat related deaths – and half the residences in Seattle do NOT have air conditioning. The claim that Germany has hundreds or even thousands of heat related deaths every year is TOTAL fiction!
His problem is that he has a lot of excess mortality to explain. Better to blame the weather than the recent medical experiment.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-average-baseline?country=DEU~JPN~GBR~USA
Are there excess deaths?
Likely not.
As germany hasn’t warmed appreciably if the graph above is true the deaths are due to energy poverty meaning people cannot afford the energy to keep cool.
There is always a logical explanation; if there are more heat deaths, green energy policy caused them.