Collateral damage of corona politics: „The Medical Officer“

02.05.2022 | www.kla.tv/22418

Below you can see a broadcast from OVALmedia. OVALmedia broadcasts various investigative contributions in the form of professional films and documentaries. In the series “Kollateral”, victims of Corona politics, among others, have their say. Watch the episode “The Medical Officer”. Gesprochener/Eingeblendeter Text OVALmedia: Collateral #5 - 'The Official Doctor' In memory of politics' war on a virus: So no one can say, “We didn’t know!” Friedrich Pürner, MD: "I am a civil servant. And I am indeed a civil servant with conviction, with heart and soul. And I am a democrat. And I take the people entrusted to me seriously. I take them important. And now I am not only a civil servant, I am also a doctor. And as a doctor I have a certain idea of ethics and morals. And I don’t want to have to look at myself in the mirror one day and be ashamed of the fact that I kept my mouth shut at a certain time or during a certain period. I don’t want that. That was never my way. All my life I have always tried to name things when they go wrong. And I said that once in an interview and I think that was the decisive sentence that got me fired. It meant: "I will always say what I think, even if it costs me my career.“ In the summer, there were always short interviews with the local newspapers. I also said that I didn't necessarily agree with the way data was collected, for example. About the sick, about the deceased. That was never done. There was no interest in it. That one collects valid, proper data to see exactly who is affected. This whole discussion always: There are such and such many Covid patients in the hospitals. Yes - this statement is...I don't think it's fake, it's certainly true - it's just not differentiated. Because it makes a huge difference whether someone has to go to hospital because of a Covid disease and then even to intensive care or whether they have to go to hospital because of a broken leg and then they test positive in there. But it was all lumped together. And in the meantime I created a Twitter account and commented on some things. I still use this Twitter account with my full name, with my status of being a medical specialist and as an epidemiologist. And I also added: Head of a health department. And that’s what people took offence in, too. My attention was then drawn to it – they would have preferred me to leave the Twitter account altogether. “That,” I said, “I won’t do that, that's my personal freedom to do that.” And I then had to take away “head of health department” though. That’s what I did, but I still continued to comment and spread my factual opinion ... yes, via Twitter. But I never passed on any official secrets or anything like that. And then after the summer holidays, Bayerischer Rundfunk approached me and asked me for an interview. And I thought about it carefully, but in the end I said: “Yes, we’ll do it.” And then, of course, it was suddenly in the national press. And after this first big interview – which was then broadcast on the radio, a few statements of me – there were a few conversations that I should be more reserved, that I should not confuse the population. And I was always given to ponder: “Well, please think of your career.” Then the Münchener Merkur came again with a request for an interview – and I complied with this request and gave the next interview. And always after each bigger interview, people tried to intervene from – I don’t know exactly how to put it – from higher up, they tried to intervene, ... the district administrator, so that I would hush up a bit more. And I made it quite clear that everything I said was only factual. I never assessed politics. I did not belittle any person, I just assessed it on a factual level, from my factual point of view. And I didn’t want to take that away from myself, and I still don't. That is my subject that is my area of expertise. And I would like to be able to say something about it – even in private. And then the local newspapers asked me again for an interview, and so it went on and on, and at some point there was a conversation that was completely factual, that is how it was communicated to the outside world. I was invited to the government responsible for me at the time. I’m not allowed to say anything about the content of the conversation, but it was only factual. And immediately, or shortly afterwards, after this conversation, I was informed, first by telephone and then relatively quickly in writing, that I had to leave the Health Department within a few days and that I would be seconded to the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety. And yes, that has cost me my career, there’s no need to beat around the bush. It’s definitely negative, and it doesn’t pass me by without a trace. You have to think of it this way, over time you have acquired a certain reputation – I am professionally well trained, really well trained. I had a good job, I had a great team, I was employed close to home, so that all has advantages. I was a boss, the head of a health department. And I lost all that. Well, I can’t see anything good about it at the moment. People tried to put me in the right-wing corner relatively early on. That was also something like that. At the very beginning, the AfD was one of the first parties to give me support. And then there were quite a few who tried to get in touch with me and try to talk to me and so on. I rejected all that because I always said: “I will not be instrumentalized. Not by any party and not by any other organization.” That’s what they tried to do. But they still put me in that corner. Because applause allegedly came from the wrong side. And that is a form of discrediting that we know from other times and other countries. And I was actually very shocked by it. That such a thing is possible at all. So just because you say something that you are factually convinced of, and some other person or party picks it up and repeats it and says: “That’s right what he says”, then there is the so-called “contact guilt”. And that is terrible. And a lot of skeptical people have been silenced. But nevertheless, I also have responsibility, as the head of the health department (or had the responsibility) and as a doctor. And then there is also the private person. And the private person has three children. And I have always tried to teach my children to stand up for their convictions. And that they never hide away, but that they stand up and that’s what I tell them at home when it comes to private matters. They should please stand up and say when they think something is going wrong. So I also have a certain role model function. So there are several things. That is education that is democracy that is my obligation as a civil servant, but also as a private person, a role model function. There were really a lot of supporters and I was very surprised. On the one hand, there were many doctors who wrote an open letter to the Bavarian State Chancellery and the Ministry of Health, saying: “It is not acceptable that a doctor should be dismissed from his job simply because he expresses his factual opinion.” Then there were a few actions in the population that simply wanted to support me now and that of course made me very happy. I have a total of five thick Leitz folders and I briefly counted them, there are over a thousand emails and letters in there that I have received from the public, but also from specialists, from doctors, from renowned, … renowned scientists. I don’t even want to mention the names now, but those who are actually known from television and radio and from the media, who have confirmed to me that I am not technically wrong, but that these things that I say can actually be discussed, and that’s exactly what it’s about. So it’s simply a question of freedom of opinion, of factual freedom of opinion. Who is actually right in the end has to be discussed, but it must not come to the point that just because one represents an individual opinion, whereby the individual opinion is only public, it is perhaps not necessarily an individual opinion. It only looks like an individual opinion. Because others don’t dare. Because it was already clear at that time that one would have to reckon with restrictions if one held such an opinion. Other things like measures, I still don’t see that the lockdown, for example, has actually availed to anything. In the meantime, we have reached 2G, which means the exclusion of healthy people who have not been vaccinated and have not recovered. For me, this is an intolerable process and we are currently debating compulsory vaccination. And this discussion, this talk, is being conducted so harshly that it is not only causing division, but I am actually afraid and worried about social peace in Germany... I would really like to see that people are no longer excluded, indeed that we simply meet each other as human beings again. Before Corona, it was completely irrelevant whether someone had been vaccinated or not, it was completely irrelevant whether someone had taken a test or not. Certain things we always did in the health department, so work-wise, whether it was about some infectious disease or not, we always worked that up. But I could never remember that there was actually an exclusion of healthy or sick people and I would like to have that again, so if I could and for that I would actually give everything again, so everything means that if I could only turn it back, I would like to have the status of October/November 2019 again. After his dismissal, the medical officer does what he always wanted to do. He writes a book about our sick Health System. “Diagnosis Pan(ic)demia“

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Sources/Links: OVALmedia: KOLLATERAL #5 – „The medical officer“ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc5Kkzqz80U
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