Germany stumbled the vaccination start.
What do the CDU members think of it?
In two weeks they can vote on it at their party congress.
A comment by Merkur editor-in-chief Georg Anastasiadis.
Coronavirus pandemic *
: The vaccination should finally
bring
relief in the fight against
the virus *
.
But most Germans are frustrated:
Politicians stumbled upon
the
vaccination start *
.
Merkur editor-in-chief Georg Anastasiadis comments: Sayings like Jens Spahn's (“Everything is going according to plan”) were previously only known from the GDR.
Munich - Amid the swelling anger about the chaotic Impfstart in Germany
Jens Spahn
said a defiant set that is the poll favorite and the entire federal government still flying around our ears:
". It runs exactly as it was planned,"
Ins same horn pushes the German EU leader
Ursula von der Leyen
.
Well - maybe the plan wasn't so great:
Brussels and Berlin hesitated for weeks before
ordering the fastest and apparently best, namely the German vaccine from Biontech - whether out of false thrift or out of consideration for Parisian interests and Macron's lobbying work for them French pharmaceutical champion Sanofi (competing with Biontech) remains to be clarified.
In any case, the result is depressing:
Millions of Israelis, British and Americans have already been vaccinated
, while our vaccination centers are empty and people are struggling for air in overcrowded intensive care units.
Is it any wonder that the people in the inventor country of the vaccine feel cheated out of the fruits of the local research spirit (and government funding millions)?
It is not enough to act in solidarity across Europe - you have to do it well.
Especially when it's literally a matter of life and death.
With his constant moralizing that the Germans should not buy the vaccine away from others, Spahn achieved the opposite of what he wanted: The German citizens quarrel more than ever with Europe.
Assuming a more prudent purchasing policy, all Europeans could have benefited together.
The feeling that Germany coped well with the crisis is reversed
And so the feeling of the citizens that Germany by
and large
coped
with the
corona crisis
well is gradually
turning
into its opposite.
The lack of a
long-term
strategy - protection of homes, a sharp corona warning app, functioning distance learning in schools - was always excused in Berlin and also in Munich with the note that the best long-term strategy was vaccination.
However
, if
the
vaccination strategy
turns out to
be
amateurish
, there isn't much left of which the spokesmen of German politics, who otherwise like to judge
Netanyahu, Johnson and Trump
, could be proud.
Instead, Spahn & Co. get tangled up, while the virus strikes ever more cruel and the foreseeable extension of the
hard lockdown * is
massively damaging our economy, even in moral debates about the fact that vaccinated people should not be granted “
special rights
”.
In plain language: Instead of shortening the crisis by all means, Merkel's government prefers to argue about how it can withhold the constitutionally guaranteed freedom rights even longer than necessary, even for vaccinated people.
The attempt to reinterpret basic civil rights into “privileges” is the wrong way out of the pandemic
The unabashed attempt to reinterpret basic civil rights into “privileges” is the wrong way out of the pandemic.
With their sharp criticism of it, the possible
chancellor candidates Norbert Röttgen and Friedrich Merz
are turning the current corona policy on its head - and also to vote at the CDU party congress in just under two weeks.
OK then.