The polls are falling rapidly.
The long lockdown does not seem to contain the incidence values sufficiently.
Politicians seem at a loss.
What to do?
Topic at
“maischberger.
die week “
again
Corona
:
Are politics pursuing
the right strategy?
How long are the restrictions still reasonable?
Lauterbach
warns of corona mutations: "Nobody expected that."
Habeck
on the allegations that his party is going to cuddle with
Chancellor Angela Merkel
- that is "stupid".
Munich - Claus Strunz
is at
“maischberger.
die woche “
in the first with tough criticism of the Chancellor can hardly be stopped.
The government is currently looking for scapegoats, Strunz gets upset and says: “After work beer drinkers” and “knitting groups”, “skiers” or the “young people”.
These are "all scapegoats that distract from the fact that there is actually someone responsible: the government".
The “Bild” journalist questions the government's strategy and, in view of the current falling polls (54 percent are dissatisfied, according to dimap), this probably comes from the soul of many Germans: “Politics seems to me like you have three or four wrong-way drivers and you block it entire road network in Germany, ”says Strunz and sings the mantra of
missing protection concepts for vulnerable groups
.
Strunz: Instead of constantly increasing the “dose of the drug lockdown”, “you could at some point ask whether it is the right drug”.
The colleague from the public service program,
Eva Schulz
, objects that Merkel often wanted the right thing, but failed to implement it in the
federal-state conferences
and she had “little to say”.
Strunz laughs: “She won't like to hear that.
The Chancellor who has little to say. "
"Maischberger. die week "- these guests discussed with:
Prof. Dr.
Karl Lauterbach (SPD)
- Member of the Bundestag
Robert Habeck (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen)
- party chairman
Prof. Dr.
Hendrik Streeck -
Director of the Institute for Virology and HIV Research at the Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn
Claus Strunz
- member of the "Bild" editorial team
Eva Schulz
- journalist for the public social media channel "funk"
Cherno Jobatey -
TV presenter and author at "Focus Online"
Lauterbach warns Maischberger of vaccine-resistant corona mutations
So much for the search for a scapegoat - which
Strunz
himself had initially criticized.
Maischberger
leads on to her most explosive conversation duet -
Lauterbach vs. Streeck
- the virologists have been in the headlines since the Corona crisis because of controversial opinions.
Above all, Streeck has
gotten rid of
its fat
under the hashtag
#sterbenmitstreeck
in the last few weeks
.
With the studio guests,
Lauterbach
seemed
to have
the worse status
, and involuntarily caused derisive laughs several times.
Maischberger
starts the conversation with a look back at the current situation.
A third star virologist has a say:
Christian Drosten
warned last Friday of up to 100,000 infected people per day in the summer.
Lauterbach feeds the horror scenario and goes one better: "There can be a
new pandemic with the current mutants
from England, South Africa or Brazil." More contagious than the currently prevailing coronavirus - and more resistant.
Lauterbach explains: “The virus learns better to spread.
And that was not expected so far. ”And further:“ It may be that we end up with mutations against which we can no longer vaccinate. ”
Lauterbach and Streeck meet at Maischberger for a dispute
Virologist Streeck
, on the other hand, believes that
mutations are
absolutely common
in viruses
: "This is evolution in the making, Charles Darwin would be delighted." And was also
to be expected
with
Corona
.
However, it would now be desirable, so Streeck further, "to work with a scalpel instead of the hammer" and calls for more studies on the spread.
Streeck: "I think you can handle the virus well if you are careful." In his institute - despite working with pathogens - not one employee has been infected.
At which point the health system reaches its limits has not yet been researched enough, says Streeck.
The
SPD health expert
contradicts: “1.1 percent of those infected die, 1,000 per day.
To be honest, I don't care how many intensive care beds we have. ”
Maischberger
von Lauterbach
wants to
know
why support for the government's course is currently declining among the population
.
The pushes the "buck" to the
EU Commission
and the screwed up purchase of vaccines.
And formulates a sentence that Strunz then selects as the quote of the evening: "The EU is morally right, and AstraZeneca is legally right." Strunz: "That says it all."
Habeck criticism at “maischberger.
die week “because of a cuddle course with the Chancellor
Change to
Habeck.
He should justify himself because of the accusation that the
Greens would go on a cuddle course with the CDU
.
As a quasi test that this is not the case, Habeck should - according to statements about Trump, Xi and Johnson - now also say something about Merkel.
Habeck replied obediently: "Ms. Merkel tries to hold the strings in hand and would like federalism to work better." Criticism looks different.
Habeck counters: To only say “hott” on principle when the government says “hü” is “stupid”, says Habeck, “I don't feel like that”.
Habeck currently sees the threat elsewhere: emancipation and progress - “progress” - would overwhelm people and even cause hatred.
"This is a dilemma," said Habeck, and he predicts: "We will have a two-part society." He warns: "We have to recognize that we are living in an era of fundamentalism." It is time to rebuild society think.
Habeck: "Not just repair, but make new." How that should work, he leaves open ...
Conclusion of the Maischberger talk
This talk deserves a “trigger” warning at the beginning.
One bad news followed another.
A perplexed government, a
lockdown strategy
that is proving to be ineffective, a lack of vaccine, massively increasing dissatisfaction in the population, the risk of a division in society and then the
virus mutations
against which any vaccination is powerless.
It looks bleak on the Corona front.
Nevertheless, there was a laugh in between - even if, it seemed, as a method against tension.
(Bernd Pipo)
In Germany there are signs of the extension of the corona lockdown despite the falling number of Covid-19 cases.
The mutation breaks out in a day care center in Baden-Württemberg.
The news ticker.