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Christian Lindner: "A household plus one person means that grandma and grandpa are not allowed to visit at the same time."
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The federal and state governments have decided to extend the shutdown until the end of January: contact restrictions are being tightened, the range of movement in corona hotspots is to be restricted, schools and daycare centers are largely closed.
Criticism is now coming from the opposition parties as well as from several associations.
FDP leader
Christian Lindner
criticized the fact that a household is only allowed to meet with one other person who does not live in the household.
»A household plus one person means that grandma and grandpa are not allowed to visit at the same time.
And all in Germany.
Conceivable in special hotspots, unfortunately disproportionate across the board, "tweeted Lindner:" It would be better than in Schleswig-Holstein: two households, a maximum of five people. "
Marco Buschmann
, Parliamentary Managing Director of the FDP parliamentary group, finds the restriction of the radius of movement in Corona hotspots inappropriate.
“I seriously wonder what this 15-kilometer rule is supposed to do.
Because what is more dangerous: driving 15 kilometers alone in a car or five kilometers in a full subway? «
The left also criticized the fact that the Bundestag had not participated in the new rules.
It is unacceptable »that such extreme encroachments on fundamental rights are decided by the Chancellor and Prime Minister without the participation of parliaments.
Before any new rules come into force, the Bundestag must therefore be involved immediately, if necessary at a special session, "said
Jan Korte
, parliamentary manager of the left parliamentary group.
Dietmar Bartsch
, co-chairman of the parliamentary group, criticized the fact that "the federal government has not yet managed to protect old people's and nursing homes from the virus, to get the health authorities crisis-proof and digital education for everyone on their way."
Intensive care physicians happy about tightening
The Corona resolutions were received positively by the intensive care physicians.
He was "very happy about this decision - the clinics are really full and so are the intensive care units," said the President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (DIVI),
Gernot Marx
, the editorial network Germany.
At present, well over 22,000 intensive care beds and thus more than 80 percent of the capacities in the clinics are occupied.
"Due to the continuously high number of around 6,000 Covid-19 patients in the intensive care units, the doctors and nurses are now really at the limit," said Marx.
Even if schools remain largely closed, the Education and Science Union (GEW) supports the extended shutdown in principle.
GEW boss Marlis Tepe also
criticized that the schools were still not corona-proof despite some progress.
"To date, there is no nationwide supply of teachers and students with digital devices, there is a lack of stable, fast WiFi," says Tepe at the editorial network in Germany.
"The ministers of education have not done their homework yet."
The
social association VdK
demanded unbureaucratic help for poor families in view of closed schools and restrictions on daycare centers.
Specifically, the association advocated a monthly flat-rate payment of 100 euros for people with basic social security, for example to cover additional costs for missing school meals and for digital learning.
Criticism of a lack of strategy
There is also support for the corona rules from business.
"One should only think of easing where the incidence
value falls
below 50," said
Clemens Fuest
, President of the Munich Ifo Institute, the "FAZ".
"In my opinion, new exit strategies are premature." In February, however, it could not continue like this, said
Michael Hüther
, Director of the Institute for the German Economy (IW): "This is one of the reasons why hotels, restaurants and retail outlets are gradually opening up from the end of January necessary because after three months of closure for many the question of existence is inevitable «.
Meanwhile, the German District Association is missing a perspective for the exit from the shutdown with the new Corona resolutions.
"What is missing is a long-term sustainable strategy," said District Assembly President
Reinhard Sager of
the German Press Agency.
"We still live too much from hand to mouth here and shimmy from conference to conference." For example, politics should give families a certain degree of planning security, says Sager.
"The restrictions must be transparent and proportionate in order to be understood and accepted."
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