Corona Talk at Anne Will: heated discussion about easing the measures 

Clear fronts in Anne Will's corona debate: one believes, the other struggles, but the arguments against loosening are stronger. 

• Again makes Corona crisis at Anne Will the First ( ARD ) for heated discussions 
• School opening yes or no? Clear fronts between Armin Laschet (CDU) and Karl Lauterbach (SPD)
• Conflict line between concern about another wave of infection and return to "normalcy"

"Worried about a second wave of infections - is Germany loosening up the corona measures 'too research'?" Was the subject of Anne Will. At the moment the question of how to proceed is a perennial favorite in the talk shows. And in some cases this was linked to the programs Corona an: There were four politicians, and again there was the most unsightly hick-hack. It can be assumed that everyone was primarily concerned with the matter. However, commitment is not demonstrated by not letting others finish. 

Anne Will im Erste (ARD): Corona measures loosened too early in Germany?

The positions were clearly distributed. Here Armin Laschet, Prime Minister in North Rhine-Westphalia. He has found his profile as an energetic father who cares - also by lifting some restrictions and wanting to lift others. His arguments: the health system is not yet in distress. The children need contact with their peers. A longer restriction could lead to "million times unemployment". The discussion about easing "must take place". But does it have to be a further loosening? 

"I would never have opened the schools, the schools are not prepared at all," @Karl_Lauterbach told #AnneWill in the discussion about the relaxation of the # Corona measures. #CoronaKrise #Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/11BVcKy8lh

No, says Karl Lauterbach. The currently most popular social democrat in the media is also the politician with the sharpest rejection of the easing. He doesn't like “the whole debate” about it. He would have kept the schools closed, he said to Anne Will, with the restrictions remaining for two weeks. Just as the virologist Michael Meyer-Hermann had recently requested. Then you could have understood new infections: "We have not yet gained anything." 

Discussion on corona loosening at Anne Will (ARD)

This is exactly what Christina Berndt has to consider. The science editor of the Süddeutsche Zeitung is a biochemist and thus the only expert in the group. She shares Angela Merkel's view that "too brisk" has been relaxed. Germany is “world leader in the fight against corona. But this should not be gambled away lightly. The number of reproductions (meanwhile, it has risen again) means: The infections continue to go on. She warns of the two-week delay in bringing results about changes to light. 

And she explains to the impatient Armin Laschet why the conditions and the criteria for the state of the crisis (doubling of the number of cases, number of reproductions, reduction to a few comprehensible cases) seem to have always changed: the doubling is more prone to errors than the number of reproductions: “Some data have Your time." 

Talk show in the first (ARD): Anne Will and guests discuss the relaxation of the corona measures 

Lauterbach adds: Germany was "80 percent lucky" that we were not the first to be caught in the pandemic. The procedure is "totally sewn on edge." He warns of the "second wave" that would be devastating. And specifies conditions for a gradual lifting of the restrictions. First, everyone should have good masks. Then the number of tests would have to be increased to two million per week, and finally the app would be needed, the importance of which had so far been “dramatically underestimated”.

Annalena Baerbock is also concerned with the prerequisites for a return to more (former) normality. The leader of the Greens demands "clear criteria" to counter the uncertainty among the population. The focus should be on areas where relaxation is urgently needed. Schools, for example, failed to create the conditions for attending school over the Easter holidays. Laschet verbatim explained how his minister of culture had tried - to no avail - but saw the blame on the school authorities - and consequently on the municipalities. 

School openings in the Corona crisis: The talk with Anne Will (ARD) 

FDP chief Lindner has long been calling for easing. He argued again that financial hardship could also cause “harm to the soul”. As a witness to his opinion, he used a single testimony from a virologist that is not shared by the majority of experts. He obviously speaks from the position of a man who does not have to be held responsible later: He "just assess the situation differently".

It shouldn't be enough. Especially since Christina Berndt pointed out that the tests are also not all reliable. This could prove to be particularly problematic if the German Football League (DFL) comes through with its concept of allowing Bundesliga games again from May 9th. So many precautions are necessary that the feasibility is questionable. More serious, however, is the obviously different way of dealing with the professionals. They should be allowed to play even if someone is infected. "We allow footballers what others are not allowed to do," said Lauterbach. The DFL concept contradicts everything that is necessary in the fight against Corona. Christina Berndt added: People are talking about football, but other groups such as children in need of care, dementia and other emergencies are completely out of focus. Annalena Baerbock added: Given the limited resources, one had to think carefully about where and how to use them. 

But whether this is necessary in the football business of billions?

By Daland Segler

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