Actually, they all have the same goal: They want to rapidly reduce the number of corona cases.
But there are many ways, means and, above all, opinions.
Such a researcher got caught in the crossfire with “Markus Lanz”.
Chancellor Angela Merkel *
appealed to the population in an emotional speech on Wednesday.
Due to the
number
of
corona cases *
and the many
deaths,
the government has now tightened the measures again.
At "
Markus Lanz
",
Dr.
Viola Priesemann made
the decision - and at the same time demanded even more determination.
Hamburg -
Dr.
Viola Priesemann
is part of the team of experts at the
National Academy Leopoldina
.
On Wednesday evening she was a guest at "
Markus Lanz
" and demanded that the
Corona problem should
finally be
tackled
properly.
She thinks the tougher provisions that the
federal government announced
on Wednesday are correct - and would take even more
drastic steps
.
She wants a
hard lockdown
- no ifs or buts.
If you believe them, the
pandemic * could
apparently be easily put to the end - but the
men's group
on the
ZDF show
saw it a little differently and attacked.
Video: Chancellor Angela Merkel calls for significantly stricter corona measures
As a
physicist at
the
Max Planck Institute
,
Piesemann
researches
corona statistics and infection
models
.
It seemed as if the researcher had prepared
some clear
metaphors
for her
opening speech
at
Lanz in
order to express herself as simply and understandably as possible.
“It is much easier to control the number of cases when they are lower than when they are high”, is the thesis that she
tried to support
with the symbol of the “fireplace at home”, which
could get out of control
as a
fire
.
Priesemann
also
compared the
current developments of the
coronavirus pandemic *
with a
football game
: The opponent is the "virus team" and "we" have to "quasi carry out the containment as a team" because every time the opponent scores a goal, it gets it Team one or two more players.
This would result in two possibilities: “Either this
virus team
is small and we have them under
control
.
Or it is big and then it scores one goal after the other and the whole thing grows.
And then it becomes extremely difficult to get it under control again, ”says
Priesemann
.
Corona crisis: Germany is not acting decisively enough for Viola Priesemann
In
Germany
and
Europe
, the
coronavirus *
has so far been "poorly managed".
“Let's look at
Asia, Africa
and
Australia
.
Australia simply ruled out the virus.
They don't have to worry about it anymore.
We have many examples that do this well, ”said
Priesemann's
criticism.
She would like
Germany to take
“adequate measures” to get the
pandemic
under control.
The
second wave *
In
Germany
I had
to wait a long time, but it was clear what brought it about: Not only the "seasonal" events, but above all the
easing
, such as the
opening of borders *
and the abandonment of
contact restrictions *
.
Also
Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder
was switched virtual.
He knows about the “fire” or the “opposing soccer team” - even without
Priesemann's
charts.
This is probably why he could to
dig
not resist:
Germany
was a
democracy
, it must keep borders open and
free
grant.
Söder
did not let the buck
be passed on to
Söder
, because he, too, would like a “complete
lockdown
over the Christmas holidays *” and wants “to shut everything down by January 10th”.
Video: Markus Söder (CSU) wants "complete lockdown" from Christmas to January 10th
The deputy editor-in-chief of
WELT
,
Robin Alexander
, broke
a lance for politics
at “
Markus Lanz
”: In
Germany there is
currently a “difficult to control situation” and one is making every effort
to reduce
the
corona numbers
, he explained.
According
to
Alexander
, the
successes of other countries such as
Ireland
show
that an
R value
of 0.7 could be achieved.
But
Priesemann comes up
with the argument that, unlike
Ireland
,
Germany has
not acted unanimously enough
to minimize
the
number of cases
.
Alexander
harshly dismissed
her objection
as an "absurd charge".
At the moment everyone is crying out for stronger measures, but in September, when the number of cases began to rise, no one called for something to be done, the
physicist
said.
In the heated discussion,
Alexander
did not want to leave this statement alone, as politicians have been wrestling with each other for months and are trying
to achieve
the best result for the
federal states
and the Federal Republic.
“This number, this 50 as a measure of
contact tracing
, has always been the goal of politics,” he says.
"Markus Lanz" (ZDF): Physician Viola Priesemann calls for a hard lockdown
The physicist @ViolaPriesemann from the Max Planck Institute is in favor of a hard lockdown.
In view of the undiminished number of new infections, it would be better to massively reduce the numbers once.
More at #berlindirekt at 7:10 p.m.
pic.twitter.com/EVKvv7UPqC
- Berlin direct (@berlindirekt) December 6, 2020
The
scientific expert
had it at
Lanz
not easy, but she moved at almost every point of discussion the displeasure of the round up.
Both the
Hamburg SPD politician Ties Rabe
and the
administrator Stefan Genth
criticized
Priesemann
- one on the part of
school management
, the other from the point of view of the
retail sector, which has been
severely affected by the Corona crisis
.
The physicist calmly put up with the criticism and referred to her
opening argument
: In order to get lower - and thus easier to control - case numbers,
infections have
to be reduced in all areas.
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