{"id":279040,"date":"2023-09-16T20:13:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T18:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=279040"},"modified":"2023-09-16T20:13:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T18:13:52","slug":"germanys-first-covid-patient-in-february-2020-my-health-is-great-in-fact-i-was-never-doing-poorly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=279040","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s First Covid Patient in February 2020: \u201cMy Health is Great. In Fact, I Was Never Doing Poorly\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0ROBERT KOGON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last week, I told the story of Germany\u2019s COVID-19 \u2018patient zero\u2019<\/a>: a Chinese employee of the German auto parts maker Webasto who is supposed to have infected a colleague while on a business trip to Germany despite being \u201casymptomatic\u201d. Except that she did in fact experience symptoms in Germany and took paracetamol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the story \u2013 and above all, in this case, the first-hand testimony \u2013 of Germany\u2019s \u2018patient one\u2019, the German colleague who was supposedly infected by his \u201casymptomatic\u201d Chinese colleague, is also of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of February 2020, a few days after being released from what he described not as quarantine but more like \u201cimprisonment\u201d, Patient One gave an extensive interview<\/a> to the Bavarian public radio station Bayern1. In response to the interviewers\u2019 first and \u201cmost important\u201d question \u2013 namely, \u201cHow are you doing?\u201d \u2013 he replied, \u201cIn terms of my health, I\u2019m doing great, really in top form. Also, I was never in fact doing poorly\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Patient One, who requested anonymity from the radio station, he met his Chinese colleague, who seemed fine to him, on a Monday, which would have been Monday January 20th, and on the following Friday he started having \u201ca little bit of a scratchy throat\u201d. By evening, he also had a cough, and he developed a 39\u00b0C (102.2\u00b0F) temperature, chills and \u201ca little bit of joint pain\u201d during the night. So, on Saturday January 25th he himself took paracetamol, and by the next day was feeling fine again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt [the medicine] worked,\u201d he said, \u201cand for me that was actually the end of the story.\u201d Except that on Monday January 27th, already back at work \u2013 in fact he appears not to have missed any workdays \u2013 he was informed that his Chinese colleague, who had flown back to China in the meanwhile, had tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thereupon, he went to his doctor, who sent his perfectly healthy patient in turn to the Tropical Medicine Department of the Munich University (LMU) Hospital. It was here that he would be \u2018diagnosed\u2019 with COVID-19 \u2013 even though he was not ill \u2013 by Dr. Claudia Rothe. Rothe, as discussed in my previous article, would go on to be awarded Germany\u2019s Order of Merit in 2022 for having thus allegedly uncovered the first case of \u2018asymptomatic transmission\u2019 of the virus \u2013 even though, soon after this \u2018diagnosis\u2019, German health officials would concede that the Chinese \u2018patient zero\u2019 had in fact been symptomatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rothe\u2019s \u2018diagnosis\u2019 was reportedly made, or perhaps confirmed, based on PCR-testing conducted by none other than Christian Drosten: the German virologist whose SARS-CoV-2 PCR protocol, which was published just days earlier, would serve as the very basis for the declaration of a COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having thus been \u2018diagnosed\u2019 with COVID-19 thanks to Prof. Drosten\u2019s lab work \u2013 and given that Drosten is based in Berlin, not at the LMU in Munich, it is not entirely clear if or how this could have transpired on the same day \u2013 Patient One was directed to report not to another medical facility, but to a \u2018house\u2019 in the Munich neighbourhood of Schwabing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is likewise not clear who gave him these orders. It would appear that German Government officials were involved in the \u2018treatment\u2019 of Patient One right from the start. In any case, according to Patient One, he simply drove to the indicated address in his own car!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There he would, in effect, be held not only under house arrest but in solitary confinement for the next 18 days. Sometime after his own arrival, other Webasto employees, who, along with Patient One, formed Germany\u2019s first reported cluster of COVID-19 cases, would also check-in to the mysterious house in Schwabing. But, according to Patient One, they were not allowed to have contact with one another \u2013 even though they were all healthy and if indeed \u2018sick\u2019 by virtue of being PCR-positive, then sick with the same virus!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were healthy,\u201d Patient One explained, \u201cwe were more or less held prisoner in this facility and we had to wait until the Ministry [of Health, presumably] decided to draft criteria which would allow us to be released.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The inmates regularly had their temperature taken \u2013 \u201cI never had fever\u201d, Patient One said \u2013 and were also tested and retested for Covid on a daily basis. Swabs were taken from both their noses and their throats. Patient One also had his blood taken. He described the situation as \u201ccompletely surreal\u201d: \u201cI felt completely healthy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked whether the medical personnel in the house were wearing special protective gear, Patient One responded, no, not really. \u201cOf course, they put on proper masks,\u201d he said. Otherwise, their protective gear consisted of \u201ca kind of painter\u2019s outfit\u201d and gloves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked, finally, as Germany\u2019s first COVID-19 patient, how he would advise others to go about dealing with the illness, Patient One replied:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019d first advise people to keep calm. Of course, it\u2019s a new virus. That\u2019s well known. But it\u2019s not as bad as the flu. It\u2019s really a kind of cold. The bad thing is that it\u2019s possible to detect the virus and then you get labelled. You just have to accept that. If you don\u2019t have any pre-existing condition, then it also will never get bad. But if you do have a pre-existing condition, and, for example, you get the flu, then that will be much, much more serious. That\u2019s why I\u2019d advise everyone first of all: if you have it, then keep calm. If you don\u2019t have it, then you should get vaccinated against the flu.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Robert Kogon is the pen name of a widely-published journalist covering European affairs. Subscribe to his Substack<\/a> and follow him on X<\/a>. All translations are by the author. Hat tip: Helen of Helen\u2019s Substack<\/a> for pointing out this interview.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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