On March 20, 2020, Markus Kerber, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, assessed various scenarios for the course of the Corona crisis.
He described a model as “a somewhat comforting best case”, “which would correspond to severe flu with 126,000 deaths”.
This assessment, for which one would be mocked as a corona denier today, did not come out of nowhere.
Kerber, one of Germany's top officials, put it in a correspondence with leading scientists.
Kerber's email, exactly one year old, makes it clear how our standards have slipped since then.
We are still stuck in an endless loop of lockdowns that have devastated society, culture and the economy - and that in an objective situation that makes even the "best-case model" of the Ministry of the Interior appear too pessimistic.