Can’t improve on the heil’s headline, at least as an example of fixing readers minds before they read the story, or even - especially, probably - if they don’t read it.
Anti-vaxxer nurse who injected up to 8,600 elderly patients with saltwater instead of Covid vaccine walks FREE from court in Germany
For the Heil, the most important word is capitalized. Imagine someone walking FREE from court for…anything. Musta dun something.
Anti-vaxxer nurse. Well the opposing lawyer said she shared conspiracy theories on the internet. That could be anything, from “All vaccines are a depopulation plot” to “Studies show that antivirals work for early covid”.
The Heil of course, does nothing to resolve the uncertainty. She’s an antivaxxer, it’s a fair cop.
I’ve no other info on the story, just wanted to admire the reporting.
They show the same willingness to mislead regarding the alleged crime.
“Nurse…who injected up to 8,600 elderly patients with saltwater instead of Covid vaccine”
It could have been 8,600, or 7947 or 1234.
Or it could have been only six. She said it was because she broke a vial and was afraid to own up.
Only six were established beyond the (presumed) threshold of reasonable doubt, as she obviously misled those patients. And there was something about may have been more but couldn’t prove it.
But such irrelevant detail doesn’t trouble the Mail when there’s a mob needing baying.
If the nurse was ‘assaulting’ people by not giving them the covid jab, It could have got very interesting had she stood her ground and declared that on the contrary, it would have been an assault to give the covid jab as proper informed consent was not obtained, or that she was protecting them from (…) and (…).
But that’s a path to a long stretch and she likely played it astutely.
Alternative headline - Lawyer EARNS his corn!
The next interesting thing is the comments. Readers were quick to jump in and follow the Heil’s lead - whatever her views, the nurse should not have imposed them on unsuspecting patients who expected something else. True (though as I say a defiant public interest defence would have been interesting), but what happens if you apply that logic to the vaccinators - who haven’t much of a clue what they are putting into people either, let alone the patients themselves. Indeed many medics have raised the potentially criminal aspect of the misleading of patients with misleading vaccine blurb.
Hat tip to Itchy Bootmore ‘over there’ - spotting that while the comments of people in response to the Heil’s egging on were predictable, the view of the main readership - as reflected by the overwhelming numbers of dislikes of these comments - was not.
