Wolfgang Wodarg is a German doctor and member of the SPD. As president of the parliamentary assembly of the health committee of the council of Europe, he co-signed in mid-December …
Open letter to the Prime Minister of Germany
Maintaining our political criticism, whether in the terror campaign surrounding covid-19, or in the “medical body” that lends its authority to neocapitalism, we find it wrong to omit the medical …
Capitalism, the state and epidemics: Event 201
The Event 201 simulates the outbreak of a new coronavirus of animal origin that is transmitted from bats to swine and eventually manages to be transmitted from human to human, …
Fear is the best medicine (of the system)
Hygiene phobias (of all scales and intensities) are a direct expression of fears related to ablebodiedness, youth and death. For a (measured!) century now, (eternal) youth and immortality have been …
Counting beans
How many people make a “crowd”? Ten? Fifty? A hundred? Based on experience, we may be able to distinguish a crowd from a group of friends, but if no auxiliary …
The army as an infirmary
Certainly, the u.s. army hasn’t dressed up like a bat. The biological technologies office of notorious DARPA appears to be the heavy artillery of trumpistan -a.k.a. the land of the …
The company knows… What about the state?
The (official) data show that the chinese government has managed to control the spread of the infection and then (as a result) the deaths from the steadily “weak” covid-19. The …
Turbo
Soul flyers are a team of reckless air acrobats -whatever “acrobatics” may mean in this case, from skydiving to… Vince Reffet is a member of the team. He was “booked” …
The unknown ancestor
It is certain that all humankind originated in Africa. It is also certain that our most recent genes are the result of interbreeding between the three versions of the original …
Delicate tasks
As for its looks, the german designed and IBM programmed CIMON-2 (the smiley plastic balloon on the left) does not claim any prizes. Though, it has a rich emotional (and …
The epidemic
While sinophobia (with the “argument” of covid-19…) continues, albeit somewhat numb (hardly anything can be attributed to the chinese state, other than the easy and arbitrary accusation that they are …
Education at the threshold of the 4th industrial revolution
The education system as we know it is only about 200 years old. Before that, formal education was mostly reserved for the elite. But as industrialization changed the way we …