German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach — known affectionately in this space as “Klaboosterbach” — isn’t getting the results he wants from the Standing Commission on Vaccination. His solution? The time-honored practice of firing the independent thinkers and packing the commission with reliable toadies.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

Three-Quarters Have to Go

After vaccination objection: Lauterbach fires almost all Stiko members

Health Minister Lauterbach is making tabula rasa. After the Stiko [Standing Commission on Vaccination] contradicted his constant appeals for corona vaccinations, he is now replacing 71% of the members with more compliant people.

Berlin

Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) will almost completely replace the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko). Twelve of 17 members have to go. This corresponds to 71%, or almost three quarters. Lauterbach wants to appoint new members in February. He leaves other committees out of the picture.

Critics suspect that the SPD politician is sketching the consequences of the Stiko’s objection to Lauterbach’s “unauthorized vaccination recommendations”. For months he has been unsuccessfully calling on Germans to be “immunized” against Corona again.

Lauterbach changes staffing rules

In July of 2022, Commission head Thomas Mertens rejected Lauterbach’s dogma that young people should be vaccinated a fourth time: “I think it is bad to make medical recommendations under the motto ‘A lot helps a lot.’” Even then, the Health Minister demanded more vaccination recommendations from the commission. But they refused.

In order to get rid of the apparently unpleasant Stiko members, the Social Democrat changed the rule according to which he appoints the members. These should only be appointed for three appointment periods of three years each. Under this new regulation, twelve current experts could no longer be there, Mertens told Die Welt.

“Stiko transformed into the minister’s instrument of applause”

Former Stiko member Gerd Antes makes it clear: “This massive intervention gives the impression that the intention here is to restrict the Stiko’s independence, with the aim of turning it into a science confirmation body instead of independent scientific counsel, and to remodel it into an instrument of plaudits for the announcements by the Minister of Health.”

According to Antes, he “suspects that Lauterbach wants to form his scientific background choir behind him. Contrapuntal voices only get in the way.”

The epidemiologist and ex-WHO expert Klaus Stöhr also criticized the reshuffle plans: “The Stiko will take a long time to become fully operational again.” [Isn’t that the whole point? Everything to help the World Homicide Organization to achieve a higher kill score.]

Afterword from the translator:

A Stalinesque purge by the Stiko — replacing three quarters of the not-quite-willing members with Yes-men. It’s the old adage of the tyrant: “If you’re not with me, then you’re against me.” Lauterbach acts in the manner of a mistrustful and paranoid feudal lord. He doesn’t give a damn about the well-being and health of the population, otherwise he wouldn’t continue to claim that the vaccinations have no side effects and urge the people to take more of the killer “vaccine”. The fact is that Lauterbach is now turning the STIKO inside out to reshape it in his own image, because it doesn’t obey him blindly or approve of his prophecies of plandemic doom. Now he simply fires those who aren’t walking his line, and replaces them with sycophants who are rectally loyal to the “Emperor”. I wonder if they have to raise their right arm and shout “Heil Lauterbach”. Or will they have to use their tongue up his backside instead while shouting “Heil Karlchen”?