highway to hell
Germany: Triage through the back door… In November 2020 there was a warning of ICUs reaching capacity. Infection numbers in November were at 511 000. In December 2020 there was a warning of ICUs reaching capacity. Infection numbers in December were at 730 000. In January 2021 there is a warning that ICUs are reaching […]
Call to Action – ASAP!
Recommendations for 2021 to successfully fight the pandemic in Germany and in Europe, starting NOW! First of all, we wish all our readers a Happy and Healthy New Year! The urgence of the pandemic is bringing us back to our blog a week early. The situation is serious and is warranting a strategy adjustment. There […]
we are interrupting our blog’s hiatus for breaking news!
Dear Readers, Our colleagues in the US last week pointed out, that seasonal influenza numbers are extraordinarily low this season (reduced by a factor of 50 compared to previous years). This was communicated in the weekly US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) update. The European Flu News Network is also reporting unusually low […]
A very special Christmas
Dear Readers, This year will be a very special Christmas. The basic requirements were given by a pandemic, with an impact not seen since 1918. In our blog post on December 7, 2020, we had warned that with a Christmas as usual, there will be no way around triage in hospitals, if peoples’ behavior does […]
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. […]
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 […]
for GERMANY: pandemic level ORANGE
On grounds of growing infection numbers, an appeal to all of you: Adjustments are necessary, otherwise we shall lose! Dear readers, We are accompanying you through this pandemic since February. We are giving advice, we are informing you, we are coming along, and we are repeating ourselves when necessary. Please read this post attentively. We […]
summer reading 2020
… in the garden, in front of the tent or the camper, or on the beach … … recommended distance included – virus free zone … My summer reading 2020 is “The Great Influenza” (2004) by John M. Barry. The author is a journalist, who covers the horrendous events of the 1918 Spanish Flu in […]
summertime 2020: music mesmerizes – science captivates
… and both unite the people of the world! If you listen to Maria Callas singing the Norma, or the Carmen by Julia Migenes, or the arias of La Bohème sung by Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon, or other classical pieces by excellent musicians and orchestras, you will understand what I mean. Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, […]
