by Peter Löcke //
"We can only achieve this with data solidarity. This Health Data Utilization Act is data solidarity in action."
What exactly is data solidarity? I don't know. If you know, please write it in the comments. The quote comes from Janosch Dahmen. He said it in his speech on digitalization in the healthcare sector. The Bundestag debate in question on December 14 was about the upcoming digital patient file. If you think that it's none of the state's business what your bowel movements are like, you're exaggerating your fears and you're also being selfish. Please show solidarity. After all, your personal data is used for research and research saves lives. That's the Janosch logic. Mr. Dahmen is at least consistent. At the time, he was the most passionate advocate of compulsory vaccination. Do you remember?
We can only achieve this with compulsory vaccination. Don't be a selfish vaccination denier. The law on compulsory vaccination is solidarity in action.
Hardly a day goes by without someone somewhere calling for solidarity. Perhaps you share my problem. I already consider myself to be in solidarity. Real solidarity comes from within. I don't have to be asked or even obliged to do so. My solidarity is with the marginalized, the courageous and all those people who have not lost their humanity. My solidarity is not party-bound. Let me give you a concrete example: the SPD party conference. I read that it was characterized by solidarity.
People hear the signals! The grand finale of the SPD's self-congratulation was the singing of the Internationale. Together in chorus, hands raised in the air in solidarity. But in my eyes this has nothing to do with solidarity. It's about group dynamics and cadaver obedience. The people are very much hearing the signals, feeling and suffering the consequences of the traffic light policy. If the SPD does not want to acknowledge this, it is suffering from a signal disorder. There was exactly one moment when a deep feeling of solidarity flowed through me. Mareike Engel, the head of Saxony's JuSo, came onto the stage. She was the only one in the room with the backbone to address the growing discontent among the population and criticize the Chancellor. She was booed accordingly. I feel connected to such courageous people. I am happy to show solidarity. Voluntarily, without being asked, without symbolism or punctuation.
Signs are constantly being set and then there are requests to join in with the punctuation. Also show and raise a flag, because you have a wide choice there. You can do this with one click in your online profile and Whattsapp status. Show your solidarity with Europe, Ukraine, Israel, the rainbow flag or even a picture of five syringes. Then the other person knows directly who they are dealing with.
When did solidarity become an icon and status symbol? The hype surrounding solidarity is not only silly and superficial, but also dangerous. In every appeal for solidarity there is a dangerous subtext, a hidden indirect message. The dangerous translation of "Be in solidarity!" is:
Be obedient. Obedient people do not ask critical questions. Those who are not obedient are excluded in solidarity.
The word solidarity has degenerated into a euphemism. Let us turn to the master of this rhetorical trickery, Olaf Scholz. There is hardly a statement in which the Chancellor does not call for solidarity, alias blind obedience, often packaged in metaphors. Underhook, we must all underhook now! Just one of many examples. But hardly any other linguistic image exposes the lie as much as the "You'll never walk alone" that Olaf Scholz regularly assures his people. It is the modern form of Erich Mielke's "I love, I love everyone, all people". Let's stay with this image.
What is the reality in the soccer stadium? There are ordinary people with little money standing in the cheap seats, the grandstand of life. They sing "You'll never walk alone". They assure their team of solidarity. We won't let you down even in bad times. That is the message. It is solidarity without being asked, voluntarily out of love for your club. It's not the president of the soccer club standing at the center circle with a microphone and asking them to do so. That's the big flaw in Olaf Scholz's metaphor.
Should the chancellor ever return to a state of reality and enter the soccer stadium of reality, he will discover the following. The fans are not as stupid as he thinks. They see with their own eyes: the government team is playing miserably, has been relegated and is now in the second division in the basement. What's more, the prices on the cheap pitches have doubled. Singing "You'll never walk alone" at this very moment is a bad idea. The perfumed VIP lounge in the press box may sing along. Ordinary people have been singing a different song for a long time. You hear it every week in Germany's stadiums. The unsolidary song goes like this:
"We're fed up. We're fed up. We're fed up, we're fed up ... we're fed up."
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Now I'm going to be unfaithful to myself and add something else:
How nice that the verb "schwurbeln" exists (since 1987)* and that it and its derived nouns have become so fashionable (since 2018)*, because "gelebte Datensolidarität" is a prime example of "Geschwurbel". It could be used very well in German lessons when education starts to pick up again and such important things are discussed at school.
In any case, in my view it is a very worthwhile method to simply turn all devaluations, defamations etc. around on those who express them. Then the statements make sense. It almost always works. Sakia Esken, for example, is a typical "covidiot". She is also a covidiot, but everyone has the right not to be discriminated against, including her. I'm also against discrimination in principle, so I lump her in with all covidiotes, including males, and not just females. Incidentally, I think that's also a kind of lived solidarity.
*see progression curve "schwurbeln" at the Digital Dictionary of the German Language: → https://www.dwds.de/r/plot/?view=1&corpus=zeitungenxl&norm=date%2Bclass&smooth=spline&genres=0&grand=1&slice=1&prune=0&window=3&wbase=0&logavg=0&logscale=0&xrange=1946%3A2023&q1=schwurbeln
"The word solidarity has degenerated into a euphemism." There is nothing to add to this.
Admittedly: I want to pick a fight. And about a sacred cow that
Solidarity. Because I simply can't take it anymore. The thing itself
sure - it is still worthy of all honors - but the word has been used ad nauseam.
tion is worn out. The former sacred cow of the labor movement has lost its
fenced pasture, stands around everywhere and stares at you with pitying eyes.
and ask them to show solidarity, please! You can't get past her, you can't honk, otherwise you'll get green spinach.
Solidarity is constantly demanded: Internally - at every party conference,
trade union congress, church congress or any association conference - it will be
constantly invoked, especially if the delegates are too critical in their discussions.
Outwardly, it is demanded everywhere: To the front, in order to future genera
tions or at least to treat young people with solidarity, back to the
seniors, turned to the side with the opposite sex, recently
„die andere Solidarität“ genannt, nach Süden mit den armen Brüdern und
sisters of the Third World, to the East even more so with all the victims of the
Communism and also to the north with the baby seals and generally
around us with Mother Nature and her family (opposite Brother Rabbit
and Sister Ant, Aunt Heide and Uncle Forest), and finally also to
solidarity with the dwindling atmosphere.
Solidarity within us, around us and about us. Is there nowhere
solidarity-free cookie? That now sounds like the functional music in
department stores and hotels.
What if we took the sacred cow of solidarity out of general circulation?
and put it back where it belongs: as an active and voluntary organization.
and therefore political commitment to others who urgently need it.
...thank you, Mr. Löcke, for your tireless work.
Months ago, I lodged an objection with my health insurance company against the creation of electronic medical records. Recommended for imitation.
How did your health insurance company react?
I would also be interested. Probably not at all, at least not in terms of content, because at that time there was still no legal basis, let alone its practical implementation by the executive bodies. In any case, a good idea!
My Tk replied that there was no legal basis for an opt-out option. No problem, I'll write to them every quarter.
Sie schreiben mir aus der Seele. Die Schnauze habe ich ebenfalls voll, nicht von meiner Mannschaft, auch wenn sie mich in regelmäßigen Abständen verzweifeln lässt. In der Tat können gewisse Werte nicht von oben verordnet werden, sie kommen freiwillig von innen. Was mich betrifft, ich besitze seit Ewigkeiten kein Auto mehr, fahre Rad und Bahn, sofern letztere denn fährt. Ich lebe Umweltbewusstsein also schon lange bevor es zur Staatsdoktrin unter dem Deckmantel des positiv besetzen Begriffs des „Klimaschutzes“ erklärt wurde. Genauso verhält es sich mit der Solidarität. Ich halte mich eigentlich auch für solidarisch. Aber es stimmt, bei dieser neuen eiskalt kalkulierten Definition von Solidarität würde ich mich auch als radikal unsolidarisch und verantwortungslos bezeichnen. Das gleiche gilt natürlich für alle erdenklichen Formen der verdeckten Umerziehung. Danke für den Beitrag und Glück auf, lieber Herr Löcke, nächste Saison geht es wieder gegen den HSV:-)
The following text is circulating as a template for an objection on the subject of patient files, presumably
this was written correctly, please check for yourself.
Objection to electronic patient file
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I hereby object to the creation of an electronic patient file of my person.
The Federal Constitutional Court has rejected a complaint and an urgent appeal against regulations on electronic patient files.
The reason given was that the file is voluntary for patients.
I would therefore like to expressly point out that I do not wish to have an electronic patient file.
I would also like to point out § 335 SGB V in the version of the PDSG:
(3) Insured persons must not be favored or disadvantaged,
because they have caused or denied access to data in an application pursuant to Section 334 (1), sentence 2.
The option provided by the Federal Government to opt out/object after the ePA has been created does not apply in my case, as the file may not be created.
I agree, because I'm fed up with it too. When it still worked with so-called solidarity, when many people paid into our social system and thus also helped the weak, it made perfect sense. This principle is now being reversed. Fewer and fewer people have to pay for many. This takes away the strength, courage and confidence of the few. There is a system of always inventing a new game to put people in fear and what is the bottom line every time: squeeze as much capital out of the people as possible. Corona, climate, war. I'm already looking forward to the next scenario. The emergency, caused somewhere and somehow, perhaps the sack of rice falling over in China, will finish Germany off. No, I'm not a pessimist.