Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach has again advocated the introduction of a general obligation to vaccinate. If you implement this now, you will be prepared in the fall, said the SPD politician in the Bundestag. He refused to wait. It takes at least five to six months to implement compulsory vaccination. “If we push the problem away from us, then the problem will come back in full force.” You can’t expect that from children, nurses, doctors and people who are at risk. “We have to take action”. Freedom is regained through vaccination, he added. “We will not come back to the life we loved and cherished without turning the spade now.”
Lauterbach spoke at the so-called orientation debate about the possible introduction of general corona vaccination as one of the last of more than 40 speakers. He stepped up to the microphone in his role as MP.