(last change: 11/08/2020)
The coronavirus pandemic is on everyone's lips. Even the state-owned housing company Degewo has now set up a coronavirus information page specifically for tenants on its own website and linked it prominently.
And what about the asbestos hazard still present in thousands of Degewo rental flats? "not found" says the browser search box. As a tenant, you won't see any information on the website about a possible asbestos hazard in your own home. The coronavirus pandemic seems to have pushed all other dangers into the background.
"Dear tenants, we are now also feeling the effects of the coronavirus in Berlin and have therefore compiled information on what we can do to minimise the risk of infection.
Read our tenant information on the coronavirus here
Source: www.degewo.de (as at 22/03/2020)
Degewo double standards
Coronavirus = very dangerous
Asbestos fibres = no danger
So tenants are immediately informed about the coronavirus pandemic, while at the same time tens of thousands of people are allowed to live in potentially dangerous asbestos flats for several decades without being made aware of the potential dangers? So far, Degewo has only ever put the asbestos issue in the drawer labelled "completely harmless".
While the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting Covid-19 disease are mild for most people, cause inhaled asbestos fibreswhich are no longer broken down by the body, scarring of the lung tissue, chronic inflammation and, in the worst case, cancer.
Asbestos danger
Permanently installed asbestos products are not dangerous as long as they do not release asbestos fibres. But only if tenants are also informed about the danger. Thanks to politicians like Frank Bielkathousands of people still live in flats contaminated with asbestos without realising the danger. If these tenants renovate one of these flats, the dangerous fibres could be released.
Typical exposure examples
-Tear off wallpaper: 5,000 fibres / m3
-Drill hole in wall: 8,600 fibres / m3
-Drill hole in tile (tile adhesive containing asbestos): 36,000 fibres / m3
Removal of individual tiles (asbestos-containing tile adhesive): 77,000 fibres / m3
-Scrape off asbestos adhesive: 320,000 fibres / m3
-Grinding off asbestos adhesive: 1.5 million fibres / m3
To date, no threshold value has been identified below which asbestos would not be associated with a cancer risk
A group of experts commissioned by the European Commission came to the following conclusion as early as 1977:
"There is no abstract evidence for an exposure threshold below which cancer will not develop. A safe maximum exposure limit has not been determined for asbestos"
"This opinion has been confirmed over the years by all relevant scientific advisory bodies."
"An increased risk of cancer was also observed in populations exposed to very low levels of asbestos fibres, including chrysotile fibres."
Source: EU resolution on asbestos from 2013
"Peace is only possible through freedom, freedom only through truth"
Karl Jaspers
Your commitment is exemplary! We need many more people of her calibre and courage 🙂
It is necessary (for survival) that the population has access to the truth and that this access is also preserved!
It is more than shocking, but also sobering, that the population is being deliberately deceived by so-called representatives of the people, elected politicians and the entire network of doctors, scientists, media etc. behind them. The true needs of the population have to give way to the increasingly obvious interests of various large corporations and their bought-in knowledge workers, politicians and influencers who are on various payrolls.
The Corona crisis, and I am convinced of this, will flush many untruths to the surface of public consciousness and I hope that the critical mass of people will grow ever larger until then, who will use their common sense and consciously deprive these politicians and this whole network of stultification and stupefaction of the food base, so that we humans can develop in peace and freedom and enjoy a beautiful life without fear and constant influence!
If aliens were to visit us now, they would be completely perplexed. Covid-19 on every news channel, curfews, empty streets, airports, motorways, parks cordoned off, Covid-19 danger signs everywhere you look. We might even ignore them in this artificially inflated coronavirus panic. It seems as if humanity only has one big problem left: Covid-19. All other problems have simply been put on hold for the moment.
It is frightening that we simply accept the self-mutilation of our society because of a flu-like virus. This is largely thanks to the editors and journalists who are now turning out to be highly qualified virologists.
But Professor Drosten has said that..... "it remains to be seen" "it is assumed" "it could be" "we don't really know at the moment" "it is obvious" etc. ..... a really great government advisor.
Berliner Morgenpost: "Housing companies refrain from forced evictions - first housing companies react to the Corona crisis":
"Degewo shows understanding for the tenants' current situation. "Evictions cannot be enforced at the moment," says Paul-Gerhard Lichtenthäler, press spokesman for Degewo. However, the company has not decided exactly in which cases and in what time frame evictions will be suspended. "It will probably be a while before we get another appointment with the bailiff anyway."
Degewo's decision is expressly welcomed by the Senate Department for Justice. "It's a decent gesture at this time," says press spokesman Sebastian Brux. The Senate Department cannot prohibit companies from carrying out forced evictions. "We can only appeal to common decency," says Brux."
Aha, Degewo shows understanding for tenants and in the next sentence it says: "Evictions cannot be enforced at the moment" and "It will probably be a while before we get another appointment with the bailiff anyway."
Degewo tenants can happily do without this "understanding".
The government does not care about the welfare of the population. Tenants have been living in dangerous asbestos flats for decades and so far nobody has taken care of them. Damaged tenants are ignored and left alone with their problem. If the government really cared about the welfare of the population, the asbestos problem would have been properly resolved. It is not very credible that politicians are now worried about the population because of corona.