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Medical ethicist Woopen: "Short-term, reactive thinking"
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Woopen, 58, heads the Chair for Ethics and Theory of Medicine at the University of Cologne and advises the
EU Commission
as Chair of the European Ethics Council
.
SPIEGEL:
Ms. Woopen, the federal government sees the shutdown as the only way to slow down the infection rate.
Is there really no alternative?
Woopen:
What we've been experiencing since the first lockdown is - apart from the app and the vaccination - short-term, reactive thinking in terms of limitations.
Good strategies to make things possible again and at the same time keep the numbers low are not realized.
SPIEGEL:
The government's strategy is to minimize contacts.
Woopen:
But that's not enough.
It didn't work in November, wasn't enough over Christmas - and because that is the case, we now have even more stringent measures.
A lockdown is not a permanent instrument.
I have repeatedly emphasized that we have additional options available to usefully expand the one-dimensional concept.
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