2024

Riffreporter – Das Recherche-Kollektiv Postviral rund um Long-Covid, ME/CFS und andere postinfektiöse Erkrankungen

Chief Health Officer, Victoria (Australien):

„Recent data shows we’re coming out of this COVID wave. This is great news! However, please remember the virus is still here. It can still cause serious illness, long COVID & death, particularly in vulnerable groups. These simple steps remain important even between COVID waves.“ (15.02.24, Twitter)

Vorbildliche Aufklärung/Information zur Prävention

2023

“people are tired and they just want to get back to the happy normality of 2019, which is very appealing. I want that too—I’m just not willing to step away from science to find comfort.” (Colin Furness, 17.01.23)

Virologin Eckerle am 31.12.23 auf Twitter:

Ihre größte Denkfehler seit Pandemiebeginn waren, dass es irgendwann vorbei sein würde, dass das Virus bald alle genetischen Tricks ausgereizt habe und Menschen prinzipiell nicht krank sein wollen und zugänglich für Gesundheitsinformationen. Sie hätte niemals gedacht, dass Rechtspopulisten, Verschwörungserzähler und Quacksalber das Thema so für sich ausschlachten und jeder noch so triviale wissenschaftliche Aspekt politisiert werden könne.

2022

“Photos look better without masks” – Lungs look better without COVID.” Janis Irwin, 09.11.22

“The Pandemic has broken people into two groups. Those who are right most of the time but wish they were wrong, and those who have been wrong most of the time but think they’re always right.”

Keith Muise, Oktober 2022

“It drives me nuts. At no point in medical school did they ever teach us that “pathogens make you stronger”. It’s wild and horrifying for me watching how easy it is for pseudoscientific nonsense to go mainstream these days.”

Dermatologin Dr. Lisa Iannattone, 11.10.22

“Wien hat die Hochquellleitung gebaut, um uns gegen Pandemien zu schützen, die im Wasser übertragen wurden. Gegen absurde Argumente haben sich visionäre Geister durchgesetzt und wir alle sind dankbar. Niemand von uns trinkt aus dem Donaukanal, wenn Durchfall gerade selten ist.”

Molekularbiologe Ulrich Elling, 10.10.22

“I think its BS. I do not know who came up with the stupid idea that infections are good for you. (Except for very special cases, where infection with a specific mild pathogen may prevent infection with a related specific severe pathogen.)”

Virologe Florian Krammer, 04.10.22

There is a growing sense, fuelled by both the administration & the media, that we have vaccines, we have Paxlovid, so the crisis is over. But Long Covid doesn’t fit that convenient narrative.“ Mehdi Hasan, NBC, 23.08.22

“I’m still astonished at the fact that, despite the wealth of evidence showing the long-term health risks from even ‘mild’ cases of Covid, as a country we have just shrugged, accepted mass infection, and acted as if the still-cautious among us are the odd ones. It’s madness.” Mehdi Hasan, 19.08.22 (NBC)

„The entire pandemic response has been shaped around accommodating the distress intolerance of privileged people.Hannah Davis, LongCOVID-Forscherin und selbst Betroffene, 07.05.22

2021

2020

“The blame lies far less with individual scientists who were wrong than with an administration that sought out fringe viewpoints that echoed its own wishes, and elevated these above the overwhelming consensus of the public health community.”

Carl T. Bergstrom, Biologieprofessor, 17.12.20

“It is very hard to tell people what they need to hear based on facts. Not what they want to hear based on emotion.” (Devi Sridhar, Public-Health-Professor, Universität Edinburgh, 22.11.2020)

“Some lessons from around the world: the most successful global leaders in fighting coronavirus have communicated clearly, displayed empathy, and always favored science over politics.” (Christiane Amanpour, CNN, 05.05.2020)