While the corona virus continues to spread in Baden-Württemberg, demonstrations against the corona regulations are piling up. Winfried Kretschmann has a clear message to the conspiracy theorists among the demonstrators.
- To curb coronavirus in Baden-Wuerttemberg are the country corona regulations for protection against infection.
- Corona demonstrations against the measures to protect against Covid-19 take place again and again in Stuttgart .
- Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann has now sent a video message to the conspiracy theorists who are participating in the Corona demos .
Stuttgart - The number of infections with the corona virus in Baden-Württemberg (BW24 * reported) is still increasing. However, since Covid-19 is spreading less quickly than a few weeks ago, there are more and more relaxation in many areas of everyday life. Because hygiene regulations and contact restrictions still apply, some citizens in Baden-Württemberg are protesting at corona demonstrations against the still applicable requirements for protection against infection.
In order to curb the spread of the corona virus in Baden-Württemberg *, the state's current corona regulations apply . Protests with hundreds of people on the Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart have already taken place several times against the regulations on infection protection . There are always conspiracy theorists among the demonstrators who want to spread their absurd myths. Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann * has now addressed these people in a video message.
Corona virus in Baden-Württemberg: Winfried Kretschmann has sent a video message to conspiracy theorists among the demonstrators at Corona demos in Stuttgart.
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Corona virus in Baden-Württemberg: Winfried Kretschmann addresses conspiracy theorists
The corona virus in Baden-Württemberg restricts the everyday life of all citizens. However, some people suspect a conspiracy behind the corona pandemic . For example, demonstrations say that Microsoft founder Bill Gates is behind the spread of Covid-19 to establish secret world domination. "I can only tell you that I should actually know that, but Bill Gates hasn't called me yet," said Kretschmann in the video that was released in Stuttgart on Tuesday .
The conspiracy theorists who take part in the corona demos mostly protest against the restrictions due to what they consider to be a harmless or fictitious virus. The requirements for curbing the coronavirus in Baden-Württemberg , which are demonstrated not only at the Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart , include maintaining a minimum distance of 1.50 meters from other people. In addition, the state government introduced a mask requirement for shopping and public transport * at the end of April.
In his video message to the conspiracy theorists on corona demos , Winfried Kretschmann said of Bill Gates that he could rule out any influence on his corona policy in this regard. "I think such a conspiracy myth is simply absurd, but I am concerned that such myths are spreading." Corona is a natural disaster and not a human conspiracy, said the Prime Minister . "There is no bad guy here who wants to outsmart us all. But there is a new problem for our health, a bad pandemic that is affecting society as a whole. ”
Corona virus in Baden-Württemberg: Protection of the constitution worried about possible radicalization on Corona demos
Given the rising number of cases of coronavirus in Baden Wuerttemberg and infection risk in Corona demos of the requirements, Winfried Kretschmann said earlier that he was highly concerned about the protests *. According to a report from the Ministry of the Interior, many demonstrators in past hygiene demonstrations have failed to adhere to current hygiene regulations.
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The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Stuttgart also warned of possible radicalization on the corona demonstrations against the contact restrictions and measures to contain the corona virus in Baden-Württemberg . The President of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution said that the particular problem with the Corona demos * is that extremist thought patterns are being disseminated in the protests and should be connected well into the bourgeois milieu. Right-wing extremists are also occasionally among the registrants and participants of the Corona demos .
* BW24 is part of the Ippen-Digital editors network