Calls for German Health Minister to Resign Increase

German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is under increasing pressure after Süddeutsche Zeitung, ndr and wdr revealed on November 27 that he blocked the downgrading of the coronavirus risk assessment for months in 2022.

Exposed: Internal emails reveal that the Robert Koch Institute (rki) wanted to lower the risk assessment from “very high” to “high” at the beginning of February 2022. Lauterbach personally intervened, and the change did not take place until May. The decision prolonged economic pain in Germany and helped perpetuate excessive covid fears globally.

Political pressure: Bundestag Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki has repeatedly called for Lauterbach to resign due to his actions during the pandemic. Concerning the recent reports, Kubicki told Tagesspiegel:

Karl Lauterbach obviously lied to the public when he declared that the rki was able to decide completely free of political influence. Lauterbach has instrumentalized “science” for his own interests and has thus considerably damaged trust in the institutions of our state. I consider him to be the worst misappointment in this office.

The truth: The pandemic has revealed that corruption trumps science. This truism is explained in detail, along with a biblical warning, in “The Tyranny of ‘Science’ Falsely So Called.”