A Degree of Misinformation

 Whether planned this way or just the quality of news journalism in Germany....there are four bits of misinformation I've seen in the past week or two which do stand out:

1.  Testing results are showing ten times or more higher than in April....but there's tons more testing taking place now.....than in the April timeframe.  

Even the Berlin City authorities will admit they are almost at maximum capacity on testing results in the city region.

The news continues to hype the infection rate, but this relates to simply more testing taking place, and doctors willing to give the digital slip for a test to occur.

You almost never get a district or state slide which says 10,000 tests were accomplished in the past 24 hours, with 300 or 3,000 positives.

No one seems to want to ask the question or dig into this.

2. At the beginning of the crisis period in April, Germany admitted that they had 28,000 hospital beds ready for the really 'bad-off'.

Presently, if you go and dig through national data, it would appear that only 2-percent of the dedicated beds are in use (it goes up, and it goes down).

The vast number of Germans on quarantine?  They do it at home.  Here again, it'd be nice to have the statistical data to say out of 10,000 people in Saxony with the infection over the past 100-days....only sixty of them required hospital treatment.  But you just don't ever see that type of data.

At least once a week.....someone tries to hype up the beds and how they 'might' be necessary.  I doubt since day one....that they've ever put more than five-percent of the beds into operation.  

3.  Number of Covid-19 deaths in Germany?  9,582 (as of today).  Infected since day one?  309,885.  The trend-lines on death....if you can catch that slide being thrown up once a week on some news program....show a dramatic decrease since July.  

A lot of this goes hand-in-hand with better treatment programs, and this talk of a weaker virus now in the public environment.

4.  Finally....on some rare occasions, they (the German news media) will put the age of deaths in relation to the normal average life expectancy.  It's getting to a point where the virus influence on 2020 deaths....are similar in nature to a non-Covid-19 year.  It begs questions, but it'd take rocket-scientists or PhD folks to figure out how this number came to be near the same death number.