Corona is just around the corner: Instead of vaccination solutions for Germany, the parties are presenting political battles.
(Photo: Frank Hoppmann)
The Ferris wheel on Berlin’s Alexanderplatz for the Christmas market has been set up. It is not certain whether it will turn often. The number of infections increases every day. Even the chaos-prone red-red-green Senate in the capital is not only tightening the rhetoric every day, but also the measures.
A few hundred meters further, in the German Bundestag, the parties are arguing about the right way to fight against Corona. The fronts are hardened everywhere. The Union against the traffic lights, the Bundestag against the Bundesrat, the executive federal government seems to be messing with everyone, and the Chancellor is not satisfied either.
What a bad mess for the citizens. The President of the Robert Koch Institute is already predicting a bad Christmas, with several hundred deaths every day.
Other countries look at Germany with wide and, above all, astonished eyes. Italy, France or Spain are suddenly the vaccination champions. Germany is not aware of these different models of success.
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Instead, it leads aloof debates about the “tyranny of the unvaccinated”, and in the Bundestag the Union, SPD, FDP and Greens shout at each other in the dispute over the prolongation of the epidemic emergency. Thinking outside the box would do us good.
France – a role model in vaccination
France has developed from a vaccine skeptic to a grand vaccination nation. Since the imprisonment has worked. The nursing staff did not run away.
Nobody looks at Sweden anymore. In the first wave, “Sweden” had become a catchphrase here. The caution team meant the high death toll and the lateral thinkers hoped for so-called herd immunity. Both variants are currently not in the fourth wave in Sweden because the vaccination campaign was successful.
There was a focus on personal responsibility. That worked to some extent. It doesn’t work in Germany. The base of those who refuse to be vaccinated is diverse. On the one hand there are the migrant milieus, on the other right lateral thinkers and finally the group of anthroposophists and followers of homeopathy.
A compulsory vaccination with an opt-out rule would be one possibility, the proposal has been debated for over a year.
Predicted Prime Ministerial Conference
The Prime Minister’s Conference had already been declared dead. Even if the stricter measures are not likely to be sufficient, the committee is now again one of the driving forces in fighting the pandemic.
Also because the traffic lights from the SPD, Greens and FDP are not yet in operation. But people are not interested in this power vacuum in the transition period. Most want to refresh their vaccination and get an appointment with their doctor or vaccination center.
They do not want to be turned away if they want to be given the spades after five months and not six months after the second vaccination.
People want to see their loved ones protected, including the children and grandchildren, for whom the vaccine will hopefully soon be approved. As bitter as it is: Parents will now have their young children vaccinated because too many lateral thinking adults are stepping on the vaccine-political stepping stone.
This attitude has nothing to do with freedom, and certainly not with responsibility. There is no legal obligation to be imprisoned, but there is a moral obligation to be imprisoned. The fact that this is politically disputed is not appropriate to the drama of the situation.
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