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They’re Pissing on Care Workers — and the People Just Turn AwayWhile experts, unions, and nursing organizations desperately sound the alarm, the government simply steamrolls PPR 2.0—over the heads of the largest professional group in the healthcare system. Jenny Kuhnert’s desperate cry of outrage has gone viral. But the bitter truth is this: it’s not just the politicians. It’s our silence, our selfishness, our “It doesn’t affect me yet” mentality. 
The Disgrace of an Out-of-Touch Political Caste — and the Cowardly Silence of the People"I’m angry. Not just infinitely disappointed. I’m damn angry." That’s how Jenny Kuhnert begins her post on July 11, 2026. And she has every right to be. Not because a government makes decisions, but because this government is making decisions about nursing care even though, for months, experts, professional organizations, and those directly affected have laid out the devastating consequences.The German Nursing Council, DBfK, ver.di, the Bochumer Bund, professional associations, trade unions, nursing experts—every one of them has published statements, every one of them has issued warnings. "And apparently, none of it mattered." The suspension of staffing minimums, the abolition of PPR 2.0 as the basis for workforce planning, and further interventions in a system that has long since reached its breaking point. All imposed over the heads of the largest profession in healthcare. In the video, Kuhnert states it plainly: "It was unbelievably easy for the coalition and the federal government to pass measures that affect us as a nursing profession. To simply take away the very foundation we rely on. [...] It didn't matter at all what the German Nursing Council said. It didn't matter at all how the nursing chambers positioned themselves. [...] The federal government just does it. Just like that. Over our heads." This is no accident. It is yet another signal: your expertise doesn't count. You may function and work yourselves into the ground, but have a say? Forget it. A damning indictment of the value placed on professional nursing in this country. Not Just a Nursing Problem — A Problem for All of UsKuhnert is right: this doesn't just affect nurses. It affects everyone who will one day become a patient. Every child. Every family. Every loved one. Those who stay silent today shouldn't be surprised tomorrow when the healthcare system collapses. In the comments, Caroline Hintzen writes, heartbreakingly: "Above all, it affects the seriously ill, like me. I'm housebound with ME/CFS and have no medical care. How are people who are seriously ill supposed to protest? And people who aren't dependent on medical care simply don't care as long as it doesn't affect them personally. They feel sorry for you—and then look away."Other comments speak of rising requests for assisted suicide, selfishness, isolation, and the absence of solidarity. One user writes: "First the so-called friends disappear—but before that, they isolate you piece by piece." Another says: "A 50% increase in prescription co-payments means millions of people will no longer be able to afford the medication they need. So they'll die sooner, saving the health insurance funds and the pension system money." This isn't collateral damage. It's the system. Democracy? Hardly!The decisions of a government do not automatically amount to democracy, even though Jenny Kuhnert appears to see it that way. Democracy means rule by the people—not rule by an out-of-touch political caste over the people. Politicians are employees of the people, paid with our taxes and elected to represent our interests. Instead, they behave like rulers, steamrolling expert knowledge, warnings, and human suffering. They ram through reforms just before the summer recess while the country is in vacation mode. A classic tactic.And the People? They Let It Happen!Many of the comments under Kuhnert's post make this painfully clear: "You got what you voted for." "Enjoy what you voted for!" "General strike—but you'll never pull that off in Germany. Solidarity? Forget it." The apathy is shocking. People complain on Facebook, share angry posts, but they don't take to the streets. Healthy people look away because it doesn't affect them (yet). The sick no longer have the strength. Care workers are too exhausted to keep fighting. "We're too comfortable—or too cowardly—to stand up for ourselves," writes one commenter.That is the bitter truth: it is up to the citizens, up to the people, whether a government like this continues to be tolerated. As long as people prefer sitting on the couch, march in the streets for symbolic causes, but stay silent while their own healthcare system is dismantled, nothing will change. Politicians spit on the people because the people allow it. They despise us because we despise ourselves—by dividing ourselves, looking away in selfishness, and then putting the same marks next to the same parties on the next ballot. Time to Raise Our VoicesJenny Kuhnert ends with a wake-up call: "Politics only changes when public pressure becomes strong enough." Exactly. No more petitions. No more quiet hope. Citizens need to wake up. A general strike, strict work-to-rule action, mass overload reports, huge demonstrations—those are the only languages this political caste understands. Those who remain silent become complicit. Those who keep voting for the same parties that systematically dismantle the healthcare system to squander billions elsewhere shouldn't be surprised when nurses quit, healthcare collapses, and in the end everyone is affected.The people are the sovereign. Not the government. It's time the employees in Berlin were reminded of that. Otherwise, this is no longer a democracy—it is merely the rule of the incompetent over the indifferent. And if that happens, we will have no one to blame but ourselves.
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