An Independent Journalist / filmmaker in Germany investigates the
Pandemic situation in a Munich hospital on 17.01.2020
Original Article
Translation from the German using DeepL without corrections
Good evening dear reader.
Yesterday on Sunday, I published a video on YouTube at 1:00 p.m. in which I show a view of the second largest hospital in the Bavarian capital. The clinic center right of the Isar.
The video reached over a hundred thousand viewers by the evening and was deleted by YouTube during the night. You can read the detailed article on the event, including viewer reactions, here on the website. Why I show this video, you can hear in the video, which you can now see exclusively as a newsletter subscriber below.
Journalism in Germany is in intensive care.
Symptomatic of the state of the sofa-surfing, click-content-producing media designers is the reaction of an editor-in-chief of a Munich daily newspaper I know personally. When I casually told him that I had just been to the hospital on the right bank of the Isar River to try to get a personal picture of the situation in a hospital, he said in amazement:
"Really? How did you get in there? That's not possible at all? So with control and so…"
Well, I went through the back entrance, friendly greeting the corner-seat security man who had been startled out of sleep, purposefully heading for the next door. For the "journalists" of our day, probably an "insanely audacious" feat.
I wish you a good evening.
Yours
Markus Langemann
Secured (unedited) original comments below the video, before YouTube censorship
ChangeTheSystem wrote: "My mother has worked at the Helios Clinic in Pasing (formerly owned by someone else) for over 15 years. Yes, there is a lot going on. But no significant change from previous years. So you can't state anything about a killer virus pandemic that is overloading the health care system.
Doro We wrote: "In the LMU in Munich the largest clinic is also not much going on. I know someone in my family who works there!!!!!"
Katharina The Great wrote: "I was in 2 different hospitals and there it was the same picture: even the accident outpatient department was as good as empty. I also passed the ICU: they always say they have stress and have to run, work, do. Not a single person went in or out of the ward. There wasn't a soul to be seen."
Christopher One wrote: "My aunt worked there until she retired. Still in contact with other nurses at the hospital. These say it is all a huge spectacle."
thewatsher1980 wrote: "Yup in our hospitals in the bergisches Land where currently the 15 km radius applies the same."
Peter Gasser wrote: "My work colleague his girlfriend also works there and he has reported that there is "nothing" special going on?lol"
Ines De Martin wrote: "Sorry, but I hope you are not surprised about this?
I work in a big hospital, and I have been wondering for months what the media is reporting on public TV about " mortality of corona virus patients".
This is my problem. I can't explain and understand all this. I just feel like I'm being made fun of.
By the way, I am not a porter or a room attendant, as I have been accused of that in earlier comments."
Sebastian Schmidt wrote: "Always amazing… Although I no longer live in my hometown Senftenberg, but my sister-in-law works in the hospital, which was also seen some time ago because of overcrowding in the ÖR. She had recorded a video in December when patients had to be transferred to another hospital. I had read at the time, however, that there is an agreement according to which it is possible to inquire at other hospitals whether they still have free rooms/beds. But I also know that our hospital was also downsizing and there was always talk of privatizing it. I don't want to go too far out on a limb, it's probably way too far-fetched, but would it be conceivable to stage something like this for certain reasons as well? I know that's a very provocative question. But with what's going on here in the state, I wouldn't be surprised. We haven't asked my sister-in-law any further. Don't know if she would have gotten any concrete info at all…"
Lotte EoD, wrote: "Been to 2 hospitals in the last 8 weeks. There it looked just as empty on several days! Not only in the corridors, also many rooms not occupied. And hospitals continue to close…"
morchen70, wrote: "So in the clinic in which I work no one comes in …except employees and patients - all with proof - even I do not know what is really fact …🤨🙄but funny is all come out without proof - so evtl also with a dangerous virus."
Marianne Gehring, wrote: "I work at LMU Klinikum and since the clinic was founded, there has never been so little work. There is no trace of utilization, neither in the intensive care unit nor anywhere else. In the past, the only disturbing factor was the patient (of course, only expressed tongue-in-cheek and jokingly), meanwhile we wish the "disturbing factor" patient eagerly back."
Icon AYL wrote: "Unsurprisingly. I work in a rehab hospital with a respiratory care unit - we also tend to be quieter than usual…"
It's the same almost everywhere. I have been to several hospitals in the south of Lower Saxony since May and the picture was always the same. Our local newspaper now nevertheless headlines with a “full utilization of the hospital", only to write that a total of 8 people are in the ICU at all and it is interestingly not mentioned why the people are actually there.
Rene Kanzler wrote: "since I myself was only in the hospital, month of December, I can tell you that it was not as press reports according to, the dead were stacked, what I can say quite clearly but is, the completely overworked forces, because::: NO STAFF. the clearest statement there was: we have at least 40-50% employees from eastern european countries and if there would not be you can close. GOOD NIGHT GERMANY led by an epidemic mother and her carnival club."
Andrea Köhler wrote: "The clinics here in southern Lower Saxony are also not completely overwhelmed. One just does one's job as usual."
Konstantin Martin wrote: "I'm also being treated there at the moment and it's really almost empty…… I know the hospital otherwise completely different… there is usually hell going on…"
Jens Coconuts wrote: "Have stood on Thursday 4 hours in my car in front of a hospital in Lower Saxony… Waiting for my wife who was unfortunately broken down and had to spend several hours in intensive care for safety….
I know this hospital very well, was the last years often there… In the time where I stood there, I noticed two things extremely… The parking garage was almost empty… Usually you have to drive around before you find a place… Then at some point the shift change came, where normally dozens of nurses, many still in their clothes and doctors go home or just come… One nurse in uniform, maybe three or four others in normal clothes….
Also in the reception hall was nothing and again nothing going on… Normally it looks like a bees nest there…. That's it… Where are the patients and where is the staff???? Either they have become invisible or they don't exist… At least not in the hospital… Maybe hidden by the maniacs who have seized power in Germany?????
Likewise the local cemetery… Where are the graves??????? Also hidden maybe, or all buried anonymously in cemeteries we know nothing about ????"
Ryan Stekken wrote: "I once spent 10 weeks in that hospital. I've never seen it so quiet and empty! But of course!"
Stefan M* wrote: "First of all, I have great respect for your journalistic work. However, you subliminally demand from a generation that has learned it since their kindergarten stay to give up responsibility, they may stand up for rights never demanded by them or to question measures of a seemingly strong authority.
I have been part of the educational system for 30 years. According to my observation, only a very small part of the people with whom I have had to deal is willing and able to form an opinion, to argue for it and to stand up for it in the end with all consequences, in other words, in case of doubt, to admit to being wrong. And even worse, perhaps, to lose with one's own opinion.
I therefore believe that it is precisely for this reason that the majority of the population considers it appropriate to be told exactly how the world around them looks, instead of looking for themselves, as they do here.
Unfortunately, no videos help here either, they are immediately put into perspective and therefore don't count for anything until some authority classifies them as correct and important.
Sounds unfortunately very fatalistic, I just notice. It will change possibly then something, if the throwing around with money does not function any longer. Many people certainly remain mentally and physically because they still hope to be better hit by the miserable money shower…"
Wolf Noleppa, wrote: "I also know a nurse who has not yet seen a case. And the people I personally know who had Corona went through something like a flu or less."
Wolfgang Loepke wrote: "At Helios Klinkum Wuppertal ,a maximum care hospital with a catchment area of 700,000 people, the corona situation has been stable for 6 weeks, according to an email from the hospital management, so that a ward that was intended for corona sufferers could be returned to its original purpose."
Heiko Schrenski wrote: "I can also confirm this condition from a clinic. I was only on Friday in a clinic because my father is currently there and I am Fürsorgebrechtigt. In the corridors empty beds stand covered. The staff walks through the rooms in the best of moods and joking. Patients are hardly to be seen. Utilization and stress looks different."
Reinhard Arnold, wrote: "Talked to a buddy from school days here in Thuringia with whom I went to the same class from first grade on. He dedicated himself to the church after school and has been a funeral director for almost 50 years. I know him very well, he bought our house years ago and also buried my mother.
Since he works very neatly and is also not so expensive, he works down to Bavaria.
He just told me it's all in the green, a little more orders, but there have been other years where it was even more. But otherwise he knows no excess mortality.
Only what strikes him, on all bills stands Corvid 19, also with people whom he knew, where he himself said, that will be the next stood Corvid 19. So, that is now from the very first hand. Even with cancer patients. ALL IN THE BAG."
Je Da wrote: "Have made interesting observations at our place in Zurich, and already last year during the first lockdown: ambulances with blue lights drive towards the hospital, in the rear area where the patient should lie, no light. Then they drive quite comfortably into the emergency room, get out comfortably, the shutter is lowered…Or: An ambulance with blue light and siren drives through a busy intersection, everyone makes way, the traffic light turns red, the car stops, waits, continues at green, no light in the back of the car, it continues with blue light towards the hospital. At the three big hospitals here in Zurich, I could not see any other hectic around the emergency room…"
Kirsten Lüders wrote: "As an emergency physician, I had immense problems at times in 2017/18 to accommodate patients in the surrounding hospitals. At that time, no one crowed about it. Instead, hospitals continued to close and beds were cut. In the so-called first wave in March/April 2020, I had fewer assignments than ever before. Where were all the C patients then? Even according to the DIVI bed registry, most ICU beds were vacant. Meanwhile, hospitals were paid handsomely for every ICU bed that was vacant. Even this winter of 2020/21, I don't have much to do C-specifically. Instead, I have been turned away by a hospital because I wanted to bring a patient after successful resuscitation. I was asked if the history suggested that C. might be present. I denied this, the patient had not been conspicuous before. Yes, then he could not be admitted. They had free beds, but they were only for C patients. Hello??? Are you still there???…. Fortunately, I found another clinic that took the patient off my hands."
Joachim Han wrote: "Friday, 10:00 appointment, Magdeburg, Uniklinik, no hectic noticeable, everything calm and relaxed. No hurried staff. There until about 13.00, no changes."
Legacy-of-Goralghor wrote: "A private clinic in Cologne, whose ward room is clearly visible from the main street. On Saturday morning, 01/16/2021, over half of the room windows were dark at 7 AM. That is at a time when the early shift comes and makes the rounds. There's always light in the windows then."
Mr X wrote: "Very strong… I also know second hand that it goes off very very quietly in munich clinics… but pretty much no one questions anything."
Stella Bilot wrote: "I know some doctors personally, including three clinicians who prove the basis of your video: in part, only one corona patient, so from because of overload, except that overload that we know for years because too few clinic staff is there, and the existing doctors and nurses have to do overtime for years. There are too few, because they are so badly paid. Just Merkel policy! By the way, I don't know any corona patients in my environment. Here, people take care of their health themselves, spend a lot of time in the fresh air, eat consciously - rich in vitamins - ."
Renate Mühlbacher, wrote: "We have a friend who works in intensive care…and who reports the same thing….Why are people lied to like this and permanently panicked?"
Britta Klages wrote via email:
"Dear Mr. Langemann, thank you for the video of the hospital in Munich. Here in Oldenburg (Lower Saxony) it looks similarly empty in the clinics and my friend from Ingelheim tells me about the closure of the clinic in which she works. 190 layoffs and about 43 fewer intensive care beds during a pandemic!???? How is that possible. She wanted to go to the press with it. Bitten however on granite. No one wanted to report on the conditions and the missing corona patients. How can that be? Such videos as hers should run on public television, so that the whole older generation and another large part of our population gets to see it! „
Martina Jakob wrote: "Top!!! I was in June in the hospital to an op, they were just happy that someone came and maskspflicht gabs only in the entrance area… On ward everything was relaxed."
Jörg-p wrote: "I was to the control in the hospital in Bochum, same pictures as here, everything like dead."
Cheers Keule wrote: "Here in the hospital also the staff is bored. Unfortunately. Normal patients no longer come and Corona Menschen yes I do not know where they are. And what the media tell and their political clowns…. I don't know. They live in a completely different world than we do. Definitely. Only they determine us. And we have to detach ourselves from that."
Meike Sasse wrote: "Here, where I live, one of the regular environmental sounds is always the honking of the SOS emergency vehicles. Recently I became aware that these sounds have totally disappeared. SAME !!!"