I would really have liked to see the questionaire the EHEC patients had to fill in or were helped with filling in by other persons.
Looking at the results, you get the impression that it was not really very efficient. Instead, it seems like it was carried out in a very dilettant way. I wonder what is supposed to be so hard when it comes to finding common denominators for so many persons concerned. All you had to do is find one or several subsets with shared characteristics.
As I see it, the behaviour of our political administrative powers is irresponsible in the EHEC crisis (and not only there, either)!
Why don’t they try to use modern methods such as “crowdsourcing” for such important issues, as well? Together, we all would long ago have come up with a good method and found the origin of the infection. There is, after all, no question that it is important enough to find the source(s) of such dangerous bacteria as fast as possible.
But, no: all they do is come up with some random theories, put the blame on something without any real proof, assume things all over the place and speculate. In the meantime, huge damage has been done but nothing really happened. We have no crisis management group, no think tank. Instead of an open information policy, we have belief in hierarchies. They do not trust your average citizen. After all, he is not fit to hear the truth.
It all reminds me of a confused central economy with a cast who consider themselves the elite just because they managed to climb up in the party. In reality, however, they are more stupid than the people. In some way or other, we in Germany go backwards, and it is not limited to EHEC, either. Unfortunately, however, the way back is not towards the Bonn FRG, but towards the East Berlin GDR.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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