CDU politician Jens Spahn up until the Covid era....was probably everyone's top five list for the right-of-center party. In Merkel's last coalition....he was given the lite-duty of Health Minister.
So as Covid arrived....there was this funny path for protective masks....where originally....THE expert (medical-virus guy....not Spahn) said masks weren't going to be necessary. About six weeks later....the authorities determined masks were necessary.
This problem erupted (I saw it approaching 6 weeks prior).....they (the commercial reality) simply did NOT have sufficient masks on hand....to meet the requirement.
Spahn went and did something fairly stupid....he put up a requirement for masks....without signed contracts or a clear understanding of the business-world.
Plane-loads of masks slowly began to arrive....on top of what stores/pharmacies ordered.
What you started to notice....the gov't pallets....weren't really planned out well....so they started to store them in military-storage.....then it got into overflow situation. Quality? Well....that was hit-and-miss. Some Chinese masks were correct....some were crap.
By the time Covid had ended....Spahn's mess to clean up....added up to around 8-to-10 billion Euro.
Yeah....because of poor management....legal matters started up. Best guess currently....around 100-million Euro in legal costs have been put upon the gov't.
Spahn's fault? I don't think he ever understood the logistical side of the issue. Even if you quizzed the forty-odd staff members around him....I don't think nothing more than strictly virus-experts...not med-parts experts.
If you were to explain to the public....how ten-odd billion was spent....they'd start laughing.
Where the masks are today? I suspect....still in some military storage bunker.
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