FALSE PANDEMICS: ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE RULE OF FEAR by Wolfgang Wodarg

FALSE PANDEMICS: ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE RULE OF FEAR by Wolfgang Wodarg

Author:Wolfgang, Wodarg [Wolfgang, Wodarg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: OVALmedia Berlin GmbH
Published: 2022-12-29T00:00:00+00:00


From March to September 2020, despite the declaration of a national epidemic, the majority of beds in the intensive care units of the vast majority of German hospitals were empty. Hospitals collected money for empty beds and negotiated with payers over further benefits in the crisis.

Some hospitals found the compensation for vacancies too low, while others were satisfied and remained silent. To accommodate the distribution dispute within the industry, the government, health insurers, and the hospital industry then backpedaled slightly without much attention. They staggered the payment for vacant beds according to hospital type and region, which caused hardship for smaller hospitals and increased profits for the large hospital corporations.

In addition, special payments for Covid treatments were made dependent on the occupancy rate of intensive care beds. The occupancy rate of a ward can be increased very quickly and effectively simply by reducing the number of beds or managing them so that at least 75 percent of the beds or more are always occupied. A ward with ten beds, of which only five are occupied, has an occupancy rate of only 50 percent. If the hospital simply eliminates the five empty beds, it is immediately 100 percent occupied and receives government support. Exomagazin ran a good article of this on April 26, 2021. 12

This mechanism seems to be paying off as it has evidently been used by many hospitals. From the reports of the DIVI, this fact is provable. Not all hospitals went along with it, but for many, the number of beds was managed precisely according to patient volume. Of course, this has nothing to do with planning bed requirements or with the meaning of supply contracts. This seemed to suit the health ministers just fine because they could always point to the “excessive utilization of intensive care units” and did not have to admit that there was no epidemiological emergency in Germany. Those who went along with the fraud and kept their mouths shut were well rewarded financially.

This example shows once again that hospital organizations are commercial enterprises reacting reasonably as such – but only as such!

Most hospitals go along with the Covid hype since their own lobby has ensured from early on that a large part of the tax money and contributions thrown out the window for Covid-19 would end up in the hospitals. One lobbying success: as early as March 2020, a Covid surcharge of 50 euros per day was paid for each occupied bed. The empty-bed fee of 560 euros per day mentioned previously was also ingenious. For each newly-installed intensive care bed, the respective hospital also received a subsidy of 50,000 euros. Regardless of whether the beds were needed, many hospitals ran with this business. Empty beds require no staff and still bring good money during Covid times.

BILLING MANIPULATIONS CREATE “CASES”

There is a new option that was additionally prepared by the WHO in time for the pandemic. As the authority that classifies diseases on behalf of the whole world, it has created two extra digits for Covid-19, thus making it easier for physicians to bill for pandemic diagnoses.



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