Does the government still know what is going on with the people in the Corona crisis?
A well-known district administrator asks himself in an emotional video message.
Heinsberg - At the beginning of the
Corona crisis
,
Stephan Pusch
became perhaps the best-known
district administrator in
Germany.
When the new virus spread in
Germany
in a first wave
, the district of Heinsberg was an early corona hotspot.
Pusch insisted on addressing the population on the Internet.
He continues with that almost a year later - and he has a lot to talk about.
How politicians reacted in the last few months of the corona pandemic apparently pissed him off.
The citizen phone is not standing still these days.
In the
district of Heinsberg
, the citizens want exactly the same as everywhere else in the country: a statement about when they can
get
their
vaccination
.
Like many other district administrators, Stephan Pusch is aware of what
moves
people during the
corona pandemic
.
And he has the impression that the problems are not openly stated at a higher level.
In a YouTube video, he strikes a sweep of the corona vaccine until the school closes.
Chaos with corona vaccinations - employees in the district of Heinsberg "mentally at the end"
Pusch cannot understand what he hears from those responsible, because the citizens in his circle tell frustrating stories.
They report that they
cannot get through
to the
hotline to
schedule
a
vaccination appointment
.
The information they get there changes sometimes every hour.
They are insecure people who, in view of the
dangers
of being infected with Corona, are genuinely afraid for their lives.
When politicians then say that the allocation of vaccination appointments is going well, it is “a pure
diversionary maneuver,
” says Pusch.
Whoever said something like that didn't have the ears at the base.
His employees on the phone, who help the citizens, are at least "mentally at the end".
Pusch hardly goes into individual persons, but everyone should quickly understand that he is primarily
talking
about the
crisis management of
the
federal government
.
It has long been known what the challenge is.
So there was time to prepare for the current situation.
Measured against this, the implementation is now "modest".
Pusch can still resist cursing openly.
Contracts for corona vaccines "every farmer would have negotiated better"
He
puts
Jens Spahn
in the hot seat to buy vaccines.
“The Federal Minister of Health says it's the EU's fault.
The
EU
says the manufacturers have
not kept
their
contracts
. ”The
district administrator is not in the mood for
such
blame
.
His conclusion is much more direct: "Either I made a watertight contract or I didn't make a watertight contract." For him, it is clear: "Any farmer in the Heinsberg district would have negotiated that better."
Later the
state governments
also get
their broadside.
When it comes to school, Pusch wants more specific corona plans than there have been so far.
"I ask for intelligent solutions," demands the district administrator.
He would like to slowly
bring
the children back to
school
from mid-February
.
What he has been missing so far, however, is a clear timetable that is not decided at the last minute: "You can't
meet
the
Prime Minister
a few days in
advance and say: We're going to do this and that now." At least a week you have to know beforehand what the plans look like.
The next
Corona summit
is planned for Monday, February 1st.
Perhaps then at least a few of Stephan Pusch's wishes will come true.
(rm)