Wrong numbers
“130 Vaccination Resisters in the Health Sector”, March 18:
I think the explanations by District Administrator Göbel on the subject of late registrations (of new corona infections, note d. editor) were not entirely correct. Up until a week ago, the figures, which were subsequently corrected upwards, were published on the district office’s homepage. The correction hasn’t been there for a week. Transparency works differently. This is unfair to your own district citizens and to the neighboring districts to present yourself as a corona model boy with low seven-day incidences for weeks.
The corona numbers published for the Munich district have been wrong since the beginning of the year. What was initially due to a mix of overload and systematics has now turned into an almost flawless system error. Using the four basic arithmetic operations and the uniform use of the MEZ in the district as well as in the RKI would eliminate the consistent under-reporting of case numbers and thus the incidence calculation.
Georg Nusser, Unterschleissheim
A nice toy
“Around the world with the Ottobahn”, March 18:
In 1900 stood in the Barmer newspaper an article with the headline: “Around the world with the suspension railway”. I know this so well because my grandfather built the suspension railway between Barmen Elberfeld and Vohwinkel in a leading position in the Continental Society for Electrical Companies in Nuremberg. Although the suspension railway has never traveled around the world, it still managed to operate as an express railway in Germany’s first industrial region. In the case of the Ottobahn, only the headline “Around the world with the Ottobahn” will remain in the public mind for a while. It is completely incomprehensible to me how politicians can campaign for such a project.
To its disadvantage, the suspension railway was and is a monorail in which switches are difficult to install and can only be traveled at very low speeds. Although the Ottobahn has a chassis that rolls on two rails, the construction of points for practical operation is as good as unresolved here. Therefore, both systems cannot be expanded, it always remains with simple orbits.
The suspension railway is still a means of mass transport today, the trains can run at an interval of 2.5 minutes at a maximum speed of 60 km/h. The Ottobahn with its four-seater gondolas should also be 60 km/h fast, each individual gondola should be able to stop anywhere, then be lowered to the ground, passengers can get on or off there, be lifted again and continue their journey. The process will take around two minutes in practice, and the cabins behind the lowered gondola all have to wait. Wonderful for a tourist train in an exhibition center where you want to see something, where you have time, but completely unsuitable for a means of mass transport. A nice toy, nothing more.
Hans-Hermann Lüdorf, Kirchheim
Not safe in the bar anymore
“The mask falls”, 19./20. March:
I would like to add mine to Mrs. Inselkammer’s thoughts and worries: after months of abstinence, in which we missed almost no opportunity to support our valued hosts, for example by buying from the street, we enjoyed visiting inns again. After checking the vaccination status in the entrance area, we felt largely safe in the restaurant. So far so good. However, if this review is to be discontinued in the near future, these establishments will have to do without our visit. Even the reduction in VAT cannot change my decision.
Hans Rohling, hair
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