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The Cologne Protocols, Part 2: The Children Who Were Never at Risk — And They Knew It

In March 2020, schools and daycare centers across Germany were closed, and sports and recreational facilities for children were shut down. An entire generation suffered massive impairments in their development. The official justification: protection from the pandemic. But the now-published Cologne Corona Protocols reveal that those responsible knew better.

The Cologne Protocols, Part 1: They Knew — And Did It Anyway

The City of Cologne’s COVID crisis team met from March 4, 2020 to January 20, 2023 in 203 sessions. Over 12,000 pages of protocols document how Germany’s fourth-largest city implemented pandemic policy. These documents are now public — obtained by Cologne citizen René Röderstein through a freedom of information request that took two years.