[Skybird]

Right now it seems to be difficult to be tested in Germany. Testing capacities in labs are working at the absolute max limit, there are only so and so many machines, and additional shifts thus will not do much to chnage the situation.This will become much, much worse in coming days and weeks.



Doctors and hospitals will have separate entrances for Corona patients and those suspecting to be one. These people will not be allowed to enter, but will ring a bell and wait outside, and get tested outside. Sometimes this even works like this description



At least thats the theory the media describe.


Today a woman I know told me of her husband who works in a hospital in the Saarland. He said that even on the children oncology station the boss doctor was positively tested, worked without protective masks or suits and that nurses do not have masks and suits as well and so could be - and most likly will be infected now as well, also that there is not enough staff. This staff should be in quaran tione. instead they keep on working on a children oncology station to keep the basic support running. For children with immune-repressing medication (chemo therapy), this is a play with fire and could mean their death sentence.



Politicians thought themselves to be so clever when they started to reorganise and plan German health care years ago. First they blew the insurrance system up over decades, then they tried to cap the costs, and after two state-planned interventions of this dimension it now is pretty much an eroded hull with a shiny surface. It led to just one thing: dramatic shortages in underpayed and overworked staff and mercilessly milking patients for costly treatments that with their diseases, ages or prospects are pointless, but bring money to the hospital's treasury. Treating patients means: refining ore (pateints) to get the final product: cash. In Germany, you better do not need to go to hospital. And that does not even include the third-world level hygienics standards in many houses. When Germans go to a Dutch hospital, say in holidays, they get fully isolated and checked thoroughly, because they are Germans coming from the dark country, you see. However, Corona has the potential to break the often applauded Dutch system as well. It will bring down every health system in the West, I think.



Needless to say, my friend was foaming and fuming: her husband is sneezing, she is ill with an infection, and so is her daughter who first had an influenza and now a "non-identified" virus infection, ill since three weeks. And they do not even tell her whether the medical tests they went through induced testing for Corona.



The system already now is at breaking point, it was systematically eroded in the past years, depleted and saved down like the Bundeswehr, schools, and train and bridge infrastructure. The state media do a wonderful job of hiding it from the public.