WORLD:
After Christian Drosten, a government policy advisor, publicly criticized your Heinsberg study, there was a shit storm.
You explain it in the book as saying that nobody wanted to hear the message that the virus is not as deadly as feared.
Shouldn't a society in a crisis be happy about good news?
Streeck:
I think that the pictures of the disaster from Bergamo had an impact.
They then extrapolated incorrectly: If 0.37 percent of the population died, we would have 250,000 dead this year.
And as soon as deaths are argued, there is silence.
If Markus Söder then says that every dead person is a small stab in his heart, he is right - but that ends the debate
WORLD:
But wouldn't 0.37 percent of Germans be around 250,000 dead?
Streeck:
That is a simplified calculation and not realistic either.