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The Abuse of the Weakest: Grit Köllmer’s Testimony as a Devastating Verdict on the Federal Government’s COVID PolicyOn June 11, 2026, Grit Köllmer, state-certified nurse with 40 years of professional experience and for 34 years self-employed owner of the “Vernetzte Pflegedienstleistung Grit Köllmer” in Oschersleben, appeared before the Bundestag’s inquiry commission on the review of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her statements—supplemented by a written submission—are not merely an account from practice. They are an unflinching verdict, derived from direct confrontation with the consequences of policy, on disproportionate, reality-detached, and inhumane measures. Who is Grit Köllmer?Grit Köllmer is not a theoretical critic or political activist, but a seasoned practitioner in the field of care. She runs a comprehensive network of outpatient and inpatient care, day care, physiotherapy, palliative care, and other services—with over 100 employees. In addition, she is involved in voluntary work supporting the homeless. Her perspective is that of direct responsibility for vulnerable people, especially elderly individuals in their final stages of life. She does not speak in abstract statistics, but in concrete fates: people who died in loneliness, relatives who were unable to say goodbye, and care workers who collapsed under inhumane conditions.Her statements in the inquiry commission (11/06/2026)In the digitally connected hearing, Köllmer described the COVID period as “very difficult” due to constantly changing regulations, statistics, surveillance, and revenue losses. Visitation bans meant that no new residents could be admitted. Entire sectors such as physiotherapy and day care were completely shut down—some of them still today. Social security collapsed, and trust among those affected was “completely gone.” People did not know “what was happening and how they were supposed to cope with it.”In her detailed written statement, she becomes even more explicit: she speaks of “unjustifiably high COVID measures,” of the “maltreatment of our elderly,” of symbolic politics and reality-detached orders (e.g., a COVID concept “overnight”). She describes how elderly people lay down in bed and refused to eat because they believed their children no longer wanted anything to do with them. Deaths following vaccinations where external caregivers without medical knowledge gave consent. Mask mandates for dementia patients who depend on facial expressions and human warmth. And a bureaucracy whose effects are still being felt today. Köllmer quotes a senior woman who had experienced flight and expulsion: “Who asked me whether and by whom I would like to be protected? [...] you now want to forbid me from seeing my children and grandchildren?” Köllmer poses the rhetorical counter-question: “What on earth do you answer this woman?” Comparison with RKI files and leaked documentsKöllmer’s report aligns alarmingly with findings from the RKI files and other released documents. The minutes of the RKI crisis unit show internal doubts about the evidence base of many measures that were nevertheless enforced nationwide. Lockdowns had “in some cases more severe consequences than COVID itself.” Repeated indications pointed to a lack of evidence for broad FFP2 mask mandates outside specific contexts. Politics ignored or overruled such concerns in favor of a hard-line approach.Particularly damning for government policy is the area of nursing homes. Visitation bans and contact restrictions were implemented despite well-known risks to mental and physical health (loneliness, depression, accelerated cognitive decline in dementia, increased mortality due to isolation). Studies and reports from the period had already documented that these measures caused severe harm to very elderly and multimorbid people—often without proportional benefit in infection control in facilities that were already high-risk environments. The RKI protocols also reveal a tension between science and politics: the RKI internally struggled with certain narratives and measures (e.g., the “pandemic of the unvaccinated”), while the federal government under Merkel, Spahn, and later Lauterbach pushed for strict restrictions. Köllmer’s criticism of vaccinations without sufficient consideration of individual risk in vulnerable elderly people is echoed here in documents showing lack of evidence and political pressure. During the pandemic, Köllmer had already voiced similar criticism from practice—about the burden on care workers, lack of support, and inhumane consequences for residents. Her current statements are not retrospective wisdom, but the consistent continuation of what she experienced on site at the time. A policy of patchwork and fearThe federal and state governments created a bureaucratic nightmare of constantly changing rules, controls, and sanctions. Care facilities were overwhelmed with testing requirements, masks (some of them unsuitable from the Ministry of Health), and quarantine rules, while real support (e.g., staffing assistance) was absent. At the same time, media and political fear campaigns drove elderly people into existential despair. The result: lonely deaths, broken family bonds, overworked care staff, and economic damage that continues to have effects today.Köllmer calls it by its name: maltreatment. The final months or years of vulnerable people’s lives were taken from them—not primarily by the virus, but by a policy that sacrificed fundamental rights, proportionality, and humanity. Ministers without practical experience in health and care relied on models and virologists instead of listening to reality on the ground. Lessons for the future—or cover-up?The inquiry commission must take these testimonies seriously. Grit Köllmer’s report is not an isolated case, but representative of thousands of care workers and relatives. The RKI files reinforce that many measures were scientifically questionable and politically excessive. Genuine review must not end in symbolic politics, but must assign responsibility: the systematic disregard of collateral damage, the exclusion of critical voices, and the sacrifice of the dignity of the elderly on the altar of a “security” that ultimately was none.Grit Köllmer has given those affected a voice. It is now up to the Bundestag to decide whether consequences will follow—or whether the abuses of the COVID era will be downplayed as an inconvenient footnote of history. The elderly who spent their final days in isolation deserve more than that. They deserve truth and a guarantee: never again. Author: AI-Translation - АИИ | |
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