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==History==
==History==
See [[German History]]
See [[German History]]
===Coronavirus response===
:{{Se also|CCP global pandemic}}
Addressing [[Chinese communist]] president [[Xi Jinping]] the editor-in-chief of [[Germany]]’s largest newspaper ''Bild'' wrote
{{quotebox|"You, your government and your scientists had to know long ago that [[coronavirus]] is highly infectious, but you left the world in the dark about it. Your top experts didn't respond when [[Western]] researchers asked to know what was going on in Wuhan. You were too proud and too [[nationalist]]ic to tell the truth, which you felt was a national disgrace....You rule by [[surveillance]]. You wouldn't be president without surveillance. You monitor everything, every citizen, but you refuse to monitor the diseased wet markets in your country. You shut down every newspaper and website that is critical of your rule, but not the stalls where bat soup is sold. You are not only monitoring your people, you are endangering them – and with them, the rest of the world....surveillance is a denial of [[freedom]]. And a nation that is not free, is not creative. A nation that is not innovative, does not invent anything. This is why you have made your country the world champion in intellectual property theft....China enriches itself with the inventions of others, instead of inventing on its own....The reason China does not innovate and invent is that you don't let the young people in your country think freely. China’s greatest export hit (that nobody wanted to have, but which has nevertheless gone around the world) is coronavirus....your laboratories in Wuhan have been researching coronaviruses in bats, but without maintaining the highest safety standards. Why are your toxic laboratories not as secure as your prisons for political prisoners? Would you like to explain this to the grieving widows, daughters, sons, husbands, parents of corona victims all over the world?"....In your country, your people are whispering about you. Your power is crumbling. You have created an inscrutable, non-transparent China. Before Corona, China was known as a surveillance state. Now, China is known as a surveillance state that infected the world with a deadly disease. That is your political legacy."”<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/china-outraged-after-largest-german-newspaper-accuses-beijing-starting-coronavirus</ref>}}
''Bild'' calculated that China owed Germany €149 billion [[euro]]s (USD $161 billion) for coronavirus damages. ''Bild'' said the compensation amounts to €1,784 euros per person if Germany's [[GDP]] drops by 4.2 percent. The ''Bild'' article was titled: "What China owes us."
A case about a man violating strict German lockdown rules by celebrating a birthday with his friends became the world’s first [[COVID]] court case that dealt intensively with the medical facts of the disease and its economic consequences. The court ruled:
{{quotebox-float|“Based on what has been said, there can be no doubt that the number of deaths attributable to the lockdown policy measures alone exceeds the number of deaths prevented by the lockdown many times over....At no time did a concrete danger of the overloading of the health system by a “wave” of COVID-19 patients occur. As can be seen from the DIVI Intensive Care Register, which was newly established on 17 March 2020, at least 40% of intensive care beds in Germany were vacant throughout March and April. In Thuringia, 378 intensive care beds were reported as occupied on 3 April 2020, 36 of which were occupied by COVID-19 patients. This was compared to 417 free beds.<br>
On 16 April 2020, two days before the decree was issued, 501 intensive care beds were reported as occupied, 56 of them with COVID-19 patients. This contrasted with 528 free beds … The maximum number of COVID-19 patients reported in Thuringia in the spring was 63 on 28 April, and the number of COVID-19 patients was thus at no time in a range where an overload of the health care system could have been feared.<br>
This assessment of the actual dangers posed by COVID-19 in spring 2020 is confirmed by an analysis of billing data from 421 hospitals by the Quality Medicine Initiative, which concluded that the number of SARI (severe acute respiratory infection) cases treated as inpatients in Germany in the first half of 2020, totaling 187,174 cases, was actually lower than in the first half of 2019 (221,841 cases), although this included COVID-related SARI cases. The number of intensive care and ventilator cases was also lower in the first half of 2020 than in 2019, according to this analysis.<br>
Mortality statistics paint a similar picture. According to a special analysis by the Federal Statistical Office, 484,429 people died in Germany in the first half of 2020, compared with 479,415 in the first half of 2019, 501,391 in 2018, 488,147 in 2017 and 461,055 in 2016. Accordingly, in both 2017 and 2018, there were more deaths in the first half of the year than in 2020.<br>
The scare projections that significantly influenced the lockdown decision in the spring were also based on misconceptions about the lethality of the [[virus]] (known as infection fatality rate or IFR) and about an existing or lack of basic immunity to the virus in the population.<br>
According to a meta-study by medical scientist and statistician John Ioannidis, one of the most cited scientists in the world, published in October in a [[WHO]] bulletin, the median lethality rate is 0.27%, corrected to 0.23%, which is no higher than in moderate [[influenza]] [[epidemic]]s."<ref>http://enformtk.u-aizu.ac.jp/howard/weimar_ruling/</ref>}}
== Sports ==
== Sports ==