In an hour-long documentary about that event, German journalist Paul Shreyer shows the health ministers intently studying the simulation exercises: “When we look at that picture,” Shreyer says, “we might comprehend a bit better why in today’s crisis, all or at least most of the countries are proceeding very coordinatedly, and why in every country, more or less the same is acted out. . . . They were given the same general recipes and procedural instructions that are now being realized in a synchronized way.”187
