HALF-TIME statement to the protective measures against COVID-19 in Germany

Dear readers, We are on day 13 of the elevated protective measures. Over the past days on average we had 20 500 new infections daily (a week earlier the number was 19 750) – it is too early to draw conclusions. One or two weeks from now, numbers will be robust enough to do so. […]
news at the SARS-CoV-2 front

Dear Readers, Globally, on October 28, 2020, 44 million people had been infected with SARS-CoV-2, with daily new infections amounting to 500 000, and 1.2 million deaths. Today, on November 11, 2020, exactly two weeks later, there are 51.5 million infected worldwide, and 1.3 million deaths. Germany is climbing the table of the Johns Hopkins […]
magnifying glass on the pandemic

The disruption of communities Once in a while, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is being compared to a magnifying glass that is making obvious many already existing problems. While this is not entirely wrong, it is missing the point. We consider this pandemic a disruptor in the classical sense. A disruptor on many levels. This is dangerous. […]
in plain language: preparation for fall and winter seasons

Since our most recent blog post is dealing with a political issue specific for Germany, we refrained from translating it. If interested, you may find it on: https://www.sajo-innovation.de/blog/de/klartext-vorbereitung-auf-herbst-und-winter/ Yours, Sabine and Jörg SAJO – for a healthy world and better future! SAJO is consulting all around infectious diseases. We are applying our know-how, that we […]
SAJO and the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster

Dear Readers, SAJO is en vogue for everybody, young and old, for the specialists and the nonskilled. SAJO is there for everybody, SAJO is inspirational and is offering opportunities and challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a trend that became obvious over the last years: The old industries and business models the German export nation […]
critical thresholds – being human sometimes is difficult…

Dear readers, Do you feel the same? Do you feel a bit tired of the current situation and the ‘pandemic’ topic, since it is affecting all everyday activities? Take a break! We took a few days off and spent time in the sun in our garden. It was wonderful. Now, we feel better, our batteries […]
German statements around COVID-19 and their credibility…

… SAJO’s scientific evaluation and correction of dubious statements … The current status of the pandemic: Globally, as of September 17, 2020, we are counting close to 30 million infected persons, and almost 950,000 deaths. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html The global mortality based on confirmed cases is around 3.15 %. In Germany, close to 270 000 cases have […]
SARS-CoV-2 – a black swan

… a pandemic simply resulting from selection pressure and chance … It is part of human nature that many of us cannot imagine unpredictable things to happen – be it good or bad incidents. A ‘black swan’ is a highly improbable but not impossible event. This event is unpredictable and might have momentous consequences in […]
country-wide adjustments of the coronavirus-related measures in GERMANY

Since our most recent blog post is dealing with a political issue specifically in Germany, we refrained from translating it. If interested, you may find it on: https://www.sajo-innovation.de/blog/de/bundesweite-justierungen-der-coronavirus-massnahmen/ Yours, Sabine and Jörg SAJO – für eine gesunde und bessere Zukunft! Informations about newest scientific findings to COVID-19: https://www.sajo-innovation.de/blog/summer-2020-in-germany/ Informations to the development of the pandemic […]
pandemics in history and folk music

Pandemics tend to leave traces, … … not just in history but also and probably at first in popular culture. During the 1918/19 Influenza pandemic – a major killer of the twentieth century (remember, there were more than 50 million horrible deaths) – children were singing a rhyme: “I had a little bird, its name […]

