The thing that perhaps bothers me the most about this case is the doctor charged so much for doing nothing.

A regional court in the southwestern town of Weinheim confirmed Tuesday that the doctor was convicted of “issuing incorrect health certificates” to people from across Germany, most of whom she had never met or examined.

In addition to the prison sentence she was handed a three-year work ban [along with nearly three years in jail] and ordered to pay 28,000 euros ($29,550), the sum she had received for issuing the medical certificates.

$30K was earned by telling people who were never seen or examined that they don’t need anything?

That sounds predatory and wrong regardless of COVID. The large profit, especially in a country with low cost healthcare, suggests it was always about the money to this doctor and nothing else.

It’s a basic corruption case, an example of a doctor with zero integrity who made society less safe by preying upon fears and beliefs.

The pandemic has highlighted problems like this in public health that probably wouldn’t have been caught otherwise. Germans are fortunate to have such a doctor banned from practice.

Russian soldiers newly arriving to occupied Makiivka, Ukraine were gathered together by Putin into a building next to a large ammunition depot and ordered to watch the dictator’s latest message.

Some, or even many, allegedly turned on their cell phones.

Such an obvious concentration of static, undisguised enemy targets sitting on top of explosives probably was impossible for Ukraine to overlook.

Then the Russians were dead.

Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday that 89 servicemen were killed in the Ukrainian attack on Makiivka over the weekend, adding the main reason for the attack was unauthorised use of mobile phones by the troops.

Russia wants to shift responsibility for all the massive loss of life onto the soldiers themselves, as if repeated pointless suicide missions with over 100,000 dead hasn’t yet been proven the fault of Putin himself.

The “main reason for the attack”?

Who are they kidding? Ukraine isn’t at war to stop cell phone use. I’d suggest the outcome might have been even worse for Russians without cell phones, since at least survivors could still surrender if they had one.

Ukraine’s estimate for their missile strike impact is in the hundreds (400 killed and 300 wounded). Given their accuracy in hitting occupation military targets at this point, they probably know casualty rates far better than Russia.

In other words, while Russia has been highly accurate at hitting non-targets (they just shoot at civilians and static critical infrastructure, neither posing any threat), Ukrainians are again demonstrating here the logical opposite: precisely wiping out entire military formations.