Can’t Reach The Current Planned Level Of Carbon Emission Reduction?

September 17, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Hurt Feelings, Hype, Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, CO2, Economy, EU, European Commission, German, Germans, Germany, Government spending, Government Waste, Industry, Regulation Leave a comment

I know. Let’s introduce an even higher and more unrealistic new level of carbon emission reduction we can’t reach!

Then everybody’s happy. Except those folks who still have to live in the real world.

German industry sceptical of EU’s new 2030 climate goals – The European Commission will present today (17 September) detailed proposals to reduce carbon emissions in the EU by 55% below 1990 levels by 2030. While German industry officially welcomes the new ambitions, it is also clearly sceptical.

The increase of the current target for 2030 by a further 15% would mean a roughly fivefold increase in the efforts of the 27 EU member states, BDI President Dieter Kempf emphasised at the beginning of his speech.

And according to BDI calculations, Germany alone would have to invest €2.3 trillion to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. “You can work out who of the other 26 countries can afford to do this. The level of ambition not only differs greatly within the EU, but also globally,” said Kempf.

Corona Deaths In Germany Completely Out Of Control

September 14, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hype, Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Deaths, German, Germans, Germany, Hysteria, Pandemic, Panic, Statistics Leave a comment

I mean the numbers.

What’s a panic monger to do? How can a media mind manipulator control the numbers when the numbers at your disposal are only 1 or 2 or 0? All you can do is not report this unfortunate fact and emphasise the number of infections instead – infections that stubbornly refuse to lead to death, but still.

Immer weniger Corona-Tote in Deutschland – Fewer and fewer Corona deaths in Germany.

Trump Derangement Syndrome Vs. Coronavirus Anxiety Syndrome

September 13, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Hostility, Hypochondria, Hysteria Tags: Angst, Coronavirus, Donald Trump, Fear, German, Germans, Germany, Hypochondria, Polls, Surveys, Syndromes Leave a comment

Which syndrome has Germans more disturbed?

Like, duh. TDS wins hands down.

Germans fear Donald Trump more than coronavirus – Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump tops the list of things Germans fear the most, a new survey found.

Trump ranks number one this year on Germans’ list of fears at 53%. The US president has topped the R+V fear scale as early as 2018.

German Of The Day: Bußgeld

August 28, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Hostility, Hurt Feelings, Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Bans, Berlin, Control, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Fines, German, Germans, Germany, Government, Laws, Regulations, State Control 3 Comments

That means fine. As in money. As in Corona money.

Most of Germany imposes $59 fine for mask-wearing breaches – German Chancellor Angela Merkel says most of her country’s states have agreed to impose a minimum fine of 50 euros ($59) for breaching mask-wearing rules as coronavirus infections rise again

Hmmm. In theory, Germany is a federal Government and this should be left up to state governments to decide but the times, as we can see, they are a changin’.

In decentralized Germany, imposing and loosening virus-related restrictions is a matter for the 16 state governments, so a patchwork of rules has emerged in recent months. Some areas have imposed no punishment for people who don’t wear masks as required in public transport, shops and elsewhere while others have imposed high fines.

German Of The Day: Zigeunersauce

August 16, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, High Art, Home Cooking, Hostility, Humor, Hurt Feelings, Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Aunt Jemima, BLM, German, Germans, Germany, Language, Names, Political correctness, Racism, Racists, Sauce, Uncle Ben, Words Leave a comment

You may think that the rest of the world hates us, my fellow Americans – and indeed they do – but they also blindly copy anything and everything braindead we do.

Take Zigeunersauce, for instance. That means “Gypsy sauce.” And because the word Gypsy, like the names Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima and yada, yada you get where I’m going with this, is one of those names we do not speak unless we are racists, it can no longer be used as a product name here in good-old Germany. The firm Knorr will now be calling their racist Gypsy sauce Hungarian-Style Bell Pepper Sauce instead.

“Same great taste, half the racism!”

In ein paar Wochen finden Sie diese als „Paprikasauce Ungarische Art“ im Regal.

Numbers, Numbers Everywhere

August 13, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Hostility, Hustle (Hoax), Hype, Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, EU, Europe, Fake News, Hysteria, Journalism, Media, Numbers, Pandemic, Panic, Statistics 1 Comment

And not a drop to drink. I mean think. Absolute numbers can be absolutely worthless. But who’s counting?

Read an interesting observation yesterday while going through an article by journalist Jürgen Kunze at the Swiss nzz.

Is the USA going to get the pandemic under control? Looking at absolute numbers can be spectacular but being that it was the expected number of deaths that got politicians to act we must concentrate on that: Per 100,000 inhabitants, the death rate list is led by Belgium with 86, followed by Great Britain with 70, then Peru 67, Spain 61, Italy 58, Sweden 56, Chile 54, USA 50, Brazil 48, France 46. Germany lands at place 36 with 11. Consequently, the USA is in the upper middle range. Shouldn’t one be asking why Belgium can’t get the pandemic under control!

Bekommen die USA die Seuche nicht in den Griff? Der Blick auf absolute Zahlen kann spektakulär sein, aber da ja die erwarteten Sterbefälle die Politik zum Handeln zwang, müssen wir auch dabei bleiben: Pro 100000 Einwohner führt die Todesratenliste (alles gerundet) Belgien mit 86 Toten an, gefolgt von Großbritannien mit 70, dann Peru 67, Spanien 61, Italien 58, Schweden 56, Chile 54, USA 50, Brasilien 48, Frankreich 46 und an 36. Stelle Deutschland mit 11 Verstorbenen. Somit befinden sich die USA noch im oberen Mittelfeld. Man müsste eigentlich fragen, warum Belgien die Seuche nicht richtig in den Griff bekommen hat!

The Swedes Are All Dying From Corona!

July 15, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Health, Helplessness, Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, Hysteria, Media, Panic, Sweden Leave a comment

Or so we’ve been hearing in the German media for months (the Swedes weren’t terribly strict about contact restrictions so they were BAD).

But Germany just lifted its travel ban to Sweden? I detect a certain dissonance here.

Coronavirus: Germany lifts travel ban on Sweden – Sweden was the last EU country with a travel ban from the German Foreign Ministry.

Germany has lifted a travel ban on Sweden as the number of COVID-19 cases in the Scandinavian country has dropped in July after spiking in June.

Brand New Cutting-Edge German Anti-Racism Technology Introduced

June 14, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hustle (Hoax), Hype, Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Berlin, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Fake News, German, Germans, Germany, Human Chains, Hysteria, Language, Mass Hysteria, Media, Media Bias, Profit, Racism Leave a comment

As reported earlier, racism is suddenly and inexplicably a really, really big problem in Germany. Out of the blue like, so-to-speak. No one can figure out how this happened or why this is so but everyone is telling each other it is so so it must be so.

To combat this burning German social issue, inventive German social scientists have come up with a brand new anti-racism technology they refer to as the Menschenkette. It is in essence a “human chain” that is designed, we non-social scientist types must assume, to keep racism from “spreading” any further. You know, kind of like the Corona face masks that used to keep the virus from spreading further but apparently don’t work anymore because none of the people in the Menschenkette are wearing them?

Please pass this on to my fellow citizens in US-Amerika immediately! An innovation like this might just end racism over night.

“Unteilbar”-Demonstration: Menschenkette quer durch Berlin.

We’re All Going To Die!

June 3, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Humor, Hype, Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, Hysteria, Travel, Travel Bans, Vacation Leave a comment

So let’s go on a nice vacation first. It looks like Coronavirus is going to take a little longer than expected to wipe out the German race so Germans aren’t wasting any time getting their priorities straight.

Coronavirus: Germany to lift travel ban for 29 European countries on June 15 – The German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has confirmed that Germany will remove a travel ban on EU member states and some other countries from June 15. However, he stressed that this was not “an invitation to travel.”

“We must not let this lull us into a false sense of security.”

German Of The Day: Übersterblichkeit

May 22, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Hype, Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: CLO, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, Language, Mortality Rates, Numbers, Reality, Statistics Leave a comment

That means higher mortality rate.

But you need to read in which context it is being used here to get the whole message: Nur geringe Übersterblichkeit – Todesfälle im April knapp über dem Schnitt. That is: Only a slightly higher mortality rate – The fatalities in April were just slightly above average.

My, that is odd, isn’t it? Wasn’t April the big Corona month in Germany? Just like everywhere else? And the country’s mortality rate was only slightly higher than usual? There must be a mistake here somewhere. Or were we all mislead to expect something else? Certainly not intentionally. Or was it just ineptitude? Numbers, black on white like that, can be very mysterious sometimes. Especially when they don’t fit your story line.

Im April sterben zwar mehr Menschen in Deutschland als im Durchschnitt – der Anstieg beträgt aber nur wenige Prozent.

Observing Hermann

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