She belongs to the risk group - but she has not yet been given a vaccination appointment.
The 85-year-old Munich native explains why she absolutely needs the vaccine.
In the state capital Munich *, the corona situation remains tense.
The vaccine is there - but not everyone who wants it will get it.
The same is true of 85-year-old Johanna.
She explains why she really needs the vaccine.
Munich - After the bumpy vaccination start,
disillusionment
and
impatience
are growing in the population
.
There is a lack of supplies - and a quick end to the
bottleneck
is not in sight.
The little prick can decide between life and death, security or loneliness, especially among the very old.
Every day counts for Johanna (85) too.
Coronavirus Munich: 85-year-olds look for a vaccination appointment on the Internet almost every day - so far in vain
Learning has always been her life.
Earlier as a teacher.
Even after her retirement, Johanna never stopped doing it.
She dodged her way into the computer age - and since the 85-year-old was held
in her two-room apartment
by an invisible specter named
Corona *
, she's been living more digitally than ever before.
The senior citizen from the Munich district does online banking, orders from Amazon, types WhatsApp messages and Googles.
"All well and good - but there is one thing that even high-speed Internet and video telephony cannot replace:
the feeling when you hug the people you love."
The
vaccine from Biontech * / Pfizer
is supposed to give her
back
this emotional closeness
.
She is not afraid of the vaccination.
“Why should I?” Asks the 85-year-old and provides the answer right afterwards: “The concern that the vaccine could alter human genetic material and thus cause cancer is unfounded according to the current state of science.
And even if long-term consequences should occur unexpectedly after many years, I would probably never experience them again anyway. ”She looks for an vaccination appointment on the Internet almost every day - so far in vain.
Coronavirus Munich: Johanna hardly leaves her own four walls
She takes Corona very seriously - since the first wave in spring.
She rarely goes shopping and always wears an
FFP2 protective mask
.
Food brings her family over.
Johanna hardly ever leaves her own four walls.
She canceled the planned larger celebration for her 85th birthday in the summer, there was only a small
drink
with the close family in the home garden.
Her son and daughter-in-law also find such
family get-togethers to be
a delicate
compromise
- even if they take place in a small circle and with the
greatest possible distance
.
“The children don't want to risk infecting me,” Johanna knows.
"Especially since it is foreseeable that the pandemic will soon end and we can finally meet again more easily."
"If I get infected, it will probably not survive"
The 85-year-old is not kidding herself: "If I get infected with the unspeakable virus, then I will probably not survive this infection." The statistics fuel her concern.
Two out of three corona victims belong to the 80+ generation
, in Bavaria alone over 4,000 very old people have already died of the disease.
“I don't want my life to end lonely in an intensive care unit,” says Johanna firmly.
Surrendering to her fate without the protective serum is out of the question for the 85-year-old.
“To say, 'Well, I'll just die now' would not be my way.
If only because every day with my grandchildren is a gift.
And I wish for many more days like this. ”
- Andreas Beez - * tz.de is part of the Ippen network.