District Administrator Stefan Löwl answered questions from the district citizens about the corona situation in a video conference.
It was about cultural workers, infection rates and school.
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Rising numbers, lockdown light and special measures against the corona virus - the pandemic is occupying the people in the Dachau district.
That became clear at the first video conference with District Administrator Stefan Löwl.
Over 200 people followed on Facebook or the video conference platform Zoom how Löwl, Education Authority Director Albert Sikora and medical doctor Christian Günzel answered questions about the current corona situation.
The radio presenter Sascha Seelemann and DN editor-in-chief Nikola Obermeier moderated the almost 90-minute event.
A few aspects are summarized here.
Culture
Markus Faiss
, head of the Bluenote Musicschool, asked Stefan Löwl what politics in the Dachau district are doing to save the cultural workers particularly affected by the lockdown.
Löwl admitted that this is a difficult question.
"We can do little ourselves because the funding projects are running at federal or state level," he said.
However, the city and the district tried to hold events in the summer.
In the case of canceled events such as the Poetic Autumn, the city would have supported the artists financially.
The district is currently buying works of art from all full-time painters and artists who are currently not allowed to exhibit in a gallery.
Infected people
Jochen Reiner
asked the district administrator how many people who tested positive actually have symptoms.
He justified the question with the insecurity he felt in many people.
"More information and figures would be important in order to be able to assess the risk you are exposing yourself to," he said.
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“How many people who tested positive actually have symptoms?” Asked Jochen Reiner.
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However, Stefan Löwl made it clear that the health department “cannot capture the information in such small pieces”.
"We just don't have the capacity sometimes," he said.
“But we don't even have some numbers at our level.” Only people with severe courses are recorded, as they would have to be treated in hospital.
Supply doctor Christian Günzel also explained that the corona tests only ask about symptoms, but not how severe they are.
schools
Tina Rotter
wanted to know from Albert Sikora, Director of Education, whether the final classes could definitely stay in face-to-face classes, even if the other classes had to switch to online or alternate classes?
"It's just a higher priority for these classes," she said.
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Tina Rotter wanted to know that graduating classes are allowed to stay in schools with alternating lessons.
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Sikora explained to her that the ministry has not yet issued any guidelines in this regard.
One thing is clear: “We absolutely want to leave all final classes in schools,” he said.
Dagmar Hamberger
, on the other hand, thinks it would make more sense if all classes would go back to alternating lessons instead of the normal face-to-face lessons as is now the case.
Because then only half of the students could be infected.
Hamberger: "Will you soon be able to plan with certainty that you will go to alternating lessons?"
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For Dagmar Hamberger, alternating lessons would already make more sense.
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According to Löwl, politicians want to keep classroom teaching going for as long as possible.
“Of course, only as long as it is medically justifiable.” Sikora confirmed this. “The fears and worries are justified, but we definitely want to keep the classroom teaching,” he said.
"However, this is a matter of weighing up."
Finally, District Administrator Löwl appealed to the common sense of the citizens in the district: “Please take it seriously in the next few weeks.
Maybe it's not about you and me, but for many others it's about your life when in doubt. "
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