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Who am I, and if so, how many? Of the “non-philosophical evening” (Heinz-Christian Strache) on a finca in Ibiza not only brought Austria a short-term government crisis, but also also brooding – we are really one Banana Republicthat a smart politician from the next best oligarch niece can offer for sale?
Why the Appearance of Sebastian Kurz contributes nothing to the clarification of the Ibiza investigation committee, but rather just more questions poses, explains this edition of “Now something has happened again”. Also: Ischgl is Corona World Champion again.
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go on the Oasch: get on your nerves
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A good parody does not trample on people, but raises them, places them on a pedestal, turns the lights on and the microphone louder so that the audience can better recognize who is actually there. This is how “Maschek” do it, the “ORIGINAL AUSTRIA!” Re-record original recordings and thus transform them into political cabaret, splendid Stuss or both.
Sebastian Kurz is in the “Maschek” version a class nerd in the break of voice who guilelessly but proudly struts across the political arena. His sentence: “I didn’t know that.”
The real Sebastian Kurz did not say much more when he was supposed to answer the five hours on Wednesday in the Ibiza committee of inquiry – and to the annoyance of most of the parliamentarians, but provided little response. He could not remember almost anything the parliamentarians would have liked to know, if at all, he had allegedly learned many things only from the media.
How the man once wants to write his memoirs remains unclear after the performance – especially since Kurz explained that he can delete all text messages, including Heinz-Christian Strache’s. “Sometimes he wrote me more than I could read,” said Kurz, finally the MPs had something to laugh about.
The chancellor’s memory was undercut by his intimate friend Gernot Blümel, currently finance minister, under the ÖVP-FPÖ government, minister of government and government coordinator. He also has no idea how the line-up came about, which has been suspected of being stolen and corrupted since the Ibiza video. Even more: The man doesn’t even know when he found out about the Ibiza video, a question that half of all Austrians and 99.6 percent of all professional politicians in the country can answer almost exactly to the hour.
To top it all off, Blümel was unsure whether he had a work laptop as minister. Because luckily he hasn’t yet deleted his Instagram profile, we can help – a picture from July 2018 shows him at work, on a laptop.
SPÖ man Jan Krainer had a total of 86 gaps in memory at Blümel, “Rekord”, he mocked, but after laughing, the opposition can no longer feel like after three weeks under committee. More like swearing. Also because trial judge Ilse Huber has allowed every attack of amnesia to go through since session one. “It goes ma am Oasch,” said Neos MP Stephanie Krisper on Thursday – because her microphone was still on, you could hear it well. Huber feels personally offended and resigned from office this morning.
The chairman of the committee, Wolfgang Sobotka, a party friend of Sebastian Kurz, is also under fire, and in exceptional cases this does not mean the increase in “friend, enemy, party friend”: Sobotka repeatedly protected the Chancellor on Wednesday with interventions against the questioners and a generous interpretation of the rights of the Respondents. The opposition considers Sobotka to be biased because he had close contacts with the gaming company Novomatic, which is at the heart of the Ibiza system (“Novomatic pays everyone,” HC Strache said in the video). Sobotka’s ex-press officer worked for Novomatic for a long time; when was the last time he saw him? You guessed it: Sobotka can’t remember.
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Finally praise for the poor Ischglers, who have had to live with the image of the Corona rotary centrifuge for months: “The Ischglers are obviously tougher than others,” said Innsbruck doctor Dorothee van Laer on Thursday, and she should know. As the study leader, Van Laer tested 1473 residents of the Tyrolean ski resort for corona antibodies and found out amazing things.
42.4 percent of those tested had antibodies, so they had been infected before. That is the highest known worldwide value of “infection” and in itself astonishing enough. But it goes on: Only 15 percent of these corona cases were identified, 85 percent underwent Covid 19 disease without realizing it. In retrospect, half of these people claim to have noticed symptoms themselves, the other half none at all. A total of nine Ischglers have been treated in the hospital, two have died, so the mortality rate is only 0.26 percent.
Incidentally, far less spectacular numbers were found in an antibody study at another hotspot: In Reichenau an der Rax in Lower Austria, 1874 people were tested, only 121 of them found antibodies, which is 6.5 percent.
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++ As of Friday 10 a.m. Austria recorded 17,434 confirmed coronavirus cases. So far, 698 people have died of or with Covid-19. The health authorities currently have 476 active infections. ++ Viennese researchers have one Corona detection developedthat could help particularly poor countries. The test by the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology requires neither expensive laboratory equipment nor special knowledge, the result is available after 30 minutes, indicated by the color in the test tube: sky blue means positive. The researchers’ method is now being assessed. ++ No more Eurofighters, no heavy weapons? Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner has via media Plans are ventilated that amount to an end to traditional national defense – The Federal Army would then be a kind of armed THW, supplemented by cyber defense and counter-terrorism. Neither coalition partners nor commander in chief Alexander Van der Bellen were inaugurated, according to one Repeat with the disgruntled President Tanner back rowed: It is only a discussion. ++ More luck than reason: Austria’s tennis star Dominic Thiem has been committed to his behavior bei Novak Djokovics “Adria-Tour” sorry. “That was a mistake, we were too euphoric. I’m very sorry,” Thiem wrote on Instagram on Thursday. According to his agent, Thiem last three corona tests completed within seven days – all negative. ++
To say goodbye, a message from the category “How do I know that I am in Austria?”: The City of Vienna has sent a “Gastro-voucher” to every household, a total of 950,000 pieces, households with more than one person get 50 euros, singles 25 euros. The city accompanies the campaign with full-page advertisements in newspapers – and they show what? Of course: a huge Wiener schnitzel. Not the plate, only the schnitzel, filling the picture, a parsley and a lemon. Apparently you can still eat vegetarian with the vouchers – only the white sprinkles have to be paid by the Viennese themselves, alcoholic beverages are not subsidized.
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