In their hectic search for scapegoats for the failed vaccine purchasing policy, German politicians have finally found what they are looking for: the allegedly profitable companies are the culprits.
Some - like CSU boss Söder - are already demanding state emergency production.
That brings back bad memories: The vaccine deficiency can certainly not be remedied with regulation.
A comment by Merkur editor-in-chief Georg Anastasiadis.
It is a more than irritating tongue that crept into some politicians' statements in the run-up to the “vaccination summit”: Because the vaccine manufacturers have proven to be so unreliable, politicians must now take coercive measures to ensure the protection of the population.
In truth, it was exactly the opposite: private research companies have developed the vaccine that will save it at record speed, but due to the failure of politics it does not reach the citizens in Europe in time.
That costs many lives every day.
But the new speech fits into the worldview of the Merkel Republic: good politics are responsible for morality (the refugees! The climate!), Bad companies only for their own profit.
Leaving aside all the garlands of words, the Berlin vaccination summit was one thing above all: a gigantic diversionary maneuver.
The Chancellor wanted to distract from the fact that she had given her oath of office to prevent harm to the German people at the EU cloakroom in Brussels.
And the politicians, who for a year could not think of anything better than forcing the citizens into ever new, ever longer, supposedly no-alternative lockdowns, wanted to distract companies with their beatings from the fact that, unlike the Asians, they still have any long-term strategy to this day What remained guilty: no timely protection of the homes, no digital lessons, no functioning mobile phone app for effective tracking of corona risk contacts.
And now we are at the bottom of the developed world when it comes to vaccination.
The fact that Federal Minister of Economics Altmaier is now threatening to maintain the lockdown even if incidence values below 50 are reached is a cheek.
For months, the citizens have been promised that if they just made an effort, there will be easing.
Now that the 50 has almost been reached, a new firework of fear is being organized around the virus mutants, with the aim of keeping the country locked until April.
This is an indictment.
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