I wrote the video transcript up (and did a wee bit of editing/cleanup for those who are English language oriented for better clarity)
Interviewer:
Pro. Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, you are an infectious disease specialist.
You are one of the most highly cited medical research scientists of Germany.
Today we are talking about the Corona virus (COVID-19)
Also, in Germany, a state of emergency is imposing extreme restrictions
What are Corona viruses?
Pro. Bhakdi:
These viruses co-exist with humans and animals around the globe.
The Viruses are the cause of very common, minor diseases of the respiratory tract.
Very often, infections remain subclinical without symptoms.
Severe courses occur almost exclusively in elderly patients with other underlying illnesses, in particular, of lung and heart.
Now, however, a new member is on stage spreading fear around the world.
Why?
The new COVID-19 originated in China and spread rapidly.
It appeared to be accompanied by an unexpectedly high number of deaths.
Alarming reports followed from Northern Italy that concurred with the Chinese experience.
It must, however, be pointed out that the large majority of other outbreaks in other parts of the world appeared to display apparently lower mortality rates and such high numbers of 4, 5 or 6% were not reached.
For example, in South Korea the apparent mortality rate was 1%.
Interviewer:
Why “apparent” mortality rate?
Pro. Bhakdi:
When patients concurrently have other illnesses, an infectious agent must not be held solely responsible for a lethal outcome.
This happens for COVID-19, but such a conclusion is false and gives rise to the danger that other important factors are overlooked.
Different mortality rates may well be due to different local situations.
For example, what does Northern Italy have in common with China?
Answer: Horrific air pollution… the highest in the world.
Northern Italy is the China of Europe.
The lungs of inhabitants there have been chronically injured over decades, and for this simple reason the situation may not be comparable to elsewhere.
Interviewer:
What about Germany? – the virus has also spread to us.
Pro. Bhakdi:
Yes. It is spreading in Germany.
One of the most important consequences is that we now have sufficient data to guage the true danger of the virus in our country.
Interviewer:
Which is what the German experts and politicians have done.
The highest alert level has been proclaimed and extreme preventative measures have been installed in the desperate attempt to retard the spread of the virus.
Pro. Bhakdi:
Yes, and this is the incredible tragedy.
Because all of these adopted measures are actually senseless.
Namely, the pressing questions are answered.
The first one: Does the virus generally cause more serious illness also in young people and kill patients who have no concurring illness?
This would make this Corona Virus (COVID-19) different from other everyday Corona viruses of the world.
The answer is clearly: No!
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We have 10,000 infections reported (2020-03-18).
99.5% have no or only mild symptoms.
Here (99.5%), we already see that it is false and dangerous to talk about 10,000 “patients”!
They are not seriously ill.
“Infection” is not identical with “disease”.
Of 10,000 infected people, only 50 – 60 were seriously ill.
And 30 died up to this present day (2020-03-18) in 30 days.
So, we have an apparent mortality rate of 1 COVID-19 per positive cases per day up to now.
(40,421 and 229 as of 2020-03-26 – 8 days later)
The looming worst case scenario that “must be prevented” according to the authorities… We would have 1,000,000 cases (one million cases) and maybe 3,000 deaths in 100 days.
This would mean 30 deaths a day.
The aim is to prevent this “worst case scenario”.
Interviewer:
All current emergency measures aim to slow down the virus spread to save lives.
Pro. Bhakdi:
Yes.
But we are looking already at the worst case scenario – with 30 deaths a day.
30 deaths a day may sound like quite a lot.
Keep in mind that every day, 2,200 over 65-year old seniors depart from us here in Germany.
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Keep in mind that many of these carry common Corona viruses.
How many are not known, so let us just assume 1% (which is surely too low).
This would translate to 22 per day (that died that had a common Corona virus). And these die every day.
The only difference is that we do not [ever] talk about “Corona-deaths”, because we know that these viruses are normally not the major cause of death.
So, what we are doing at this moment is to prevent that these 22 are replaced by 30 COVID-19 positive patients.
This is what is happening.
We are afraid that 1 million infections with the new virus will lead to 30 deaths a day over the next 100 days.
But we do not realize that 20 or 30 or 40 or 100 patients who are positive for an ordinary Corona virus are already dying every day.
[And so, what we are doing is trying to minimize…]… to avoid that COVID-19 enters the scene, that which we never have done for other Corona viruses, we installed extreme measures.
Interviewer:
So, what do you think about all these extreme measures?
Pro. Bhakdi:
They are grotesque, absurd and very dangerous.
Our elderly citizens have every right to make efforts not to belong to the 2,200 that daily embark on their last [daily] journey.
Social contacts and social events, theatre and music, travel and holiday recreation, sports and hobbies, etc., etc. all help to prolong their stay on earth.
The life expectancy of millions is being shortened.
The horrifying impact on the world economy threatens the existence of countless people.
The consequences on medical care are profound.
Already, services to patients who are in need are reduced, operations cancelled, practices empty, hospital personnel dwindling.
All this will impact profoundly on our whole society.
I can only say: All these measures are leading to self-destruction and collective suicide because of nothing but a spook.