Overview
- Hubertus Diemer of the DRK said Germany repeatedly fails to learn from major crises, calling it a pronounced 'Katastrophen-Demenz'.
- He recalled a 2007 cross-state pandemic exercise and argued that the identified gaps were never implemented into practice.
- Diemer urged concrete steps to bolster population and disaster protection, warning the country will otherwise be poorly prepared for future crises.
- The statements were delivered at the Corona-Enquete-Kommission in the Brandenburg state parliament, which is reviewing pandemic response.
- The commission began work a few months ago to propose how to make the health system more resilient while keeping restrictions on freedoms as limited as possible.