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2020-10-01T07:36:15.751Z


He is considered a critical companion of the pandemic from the beginning: The philosopher Julian Nida-Rümelin wants to rethink the Corona crisis and completely different measures.


He is considered a critical companion of the pandemic from the beginning: The philosopher Julian Nida-Rümelin wants to rethink the Corona crisis and completely different measures.

  • Experts repeatedly warn that

    politicians should

    listen

    to

    virologists

    alone

    .

  • The

    Corona

    * crisis is

    also a social, not just a medical, crisis.

  • Philosophy professor Julian Nida-Rümelin,

    for example, expresses criticism of the general measures

    .

Munich - How do scientists other than virologists view the pandemic?

The

philosophy professor Julian Nida-Rümelin is

annoyed about the orientation of the

measures

towards the

number of new infections

- and would like a more differentiated orientation of the measures and clearer communication.

He is particularly concerned about the well-being of the young generation - but also sees a need for improvement in terms of the protection of

high-risk patients

*

.

As early as the beginning of April,

Nida-Rümelin gave

interviews in which he warned that the company would not be able to withstand the measures in the long term - for example on Bavarian radio.

Living together with the virus: Nida-Rümelin compares Corona with HIV

In an interview with Focus, Nida-Rümelin compares the

coronavirus

with the

HI virus

.

In the case of

HIV

, too, there was initially “an enormous hysteria”.

But one has learned - the number of monthly deaths is no longer worth a newspaper note.

Corona must also be viewed in a similar way - because it is "quite possible that the virus will no longer go away."

Even if he considered the measures taken by the government around

Chancellor Angela Merkel

at the beginning of the

pandemic

to be sensible, "scaremongering" and a

second lockdown

must be avoided.

Because the lockdown - for example in African countries or India - has just led to increased misery and can

not be financially supported

in

Europe

either.

Better protective clothing and more test options would now allow the

measures

*

to

protect high-risk patients to have a

better effect - for example, by testing clinical staff more frequently.

Living together during Corona: philosophy professor calls for solidarity across generations

This is what his idea of ​​living together with the

virus

looks like

: "Every person, even from

high-risk groups

, should be able to decide for themselves whether and to what extent they

want to expose

themselves to an

infection risk

, at least as long as we are not

heading towards

a

health

emergency." For him, this not only means protecting people in care facilities - without isolation - but also supporting those at particular risk in everyday life.

For him, intergenerational solidarity currently also means that young people - for example as teachers or kindergarten teachers - are more likely to expose themselves to the risk of falling ill themselves.

Nida-Rümelin

does not assume that young people - who are currently still prudent - would allow themselves to be restricted in the long term: “We cannot tell the entire young generation that there should be no hugs and no parties in the coming years . ”And he adds:“ Not as a 

philosopher

, but as an experienced father with three school-age children, I am skeptical. ”(Kat)

* Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editorial network.

Source: merkur

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