The next Corona summit will take place on Wednesday.
It is questionable whether there will be any decisive changes.
Anne Will discuss warning apps and quick tests.
"Anne Will" - these guests discussed with:
Helge Braun (CDU) -
Head of the Federal Chancellery
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP) -
Judge at the Bavarian Constitutional Court
Christiane Woopen -
Chair of the European Ethics Council
Michael Bernd Schmidt alias Smudo -
rapper (Die Fantastischen Vier), co-developer of the "Luca" app for tracking chains of infection
Ranga Yogeshwar -
science journalist
The current title of the "Anne Will" talk in the first sounds almost desperate: "The great perplexity - is there a way out of the permanent lockdown?" On the occasion of the next Corona summit next Wednesday, Will invites the group to brainstorm options for Relaxations.
What is noticeable: the tone towards the government is becoming sharper.
Chancellery chief Helge Braun sits in the group on a losing position.
The Chair of the European Ethics Council calls for a "change of strategy" for openings
Vaccination, digital contact tracing and rapid tests could make controlled openings possible; other countries have successfully demonstrated it.
But because of the shortage of vaccines, German data protection and the shortage of tests, the ideas in this country have stalled.
The chairman of the European Ethics Council, Christiane Woopen, seems to want to make not only a statement, but almost an appeal to the audience and perhaps also to the political leaders.
With a clear voice she proclaims: “We want to propose a change of strategy to the federal-state conference!” And: “It is a vicious cycle in which we are involved.
People are emotionally exhausted, many are existentially threatened! ”Among other things, she mentions worries about bankruptcies, lifelong dreams and the lack of prospects for large sections of the population.
And she demands: One must now move from the reactive to the productive.
Except for Helge Braun, there was a violent nod of the head in the group.
Fanta4 rapper is allowed to advertise his Corona app on “Anne Will” under public law
Smudo gets a lot of airtime to advertise the "Luca" app that he developed with his Fanta4 colleagues and IT specialists.
It makes contact tracking possible in a user-friendly and data protection-compliant manner and can do everything that the Corona warning app supposedly cannot.
The app should also enable digital transmission to the health authorities and make the currently mostly analog and very time-consuming contact tracking superfluous.
Chancellery chief Helge Braun, who has the ungrateful role to defend the government's course in the critical group, admits that the digitization of the health authorities is slow: "This is what I have been fighting with the federal states for over a year!" Braun could imagine the " Luca ”app to the common government software Somas.
Smudo, it's all too complicated, it's not rocket science, argues the startup.
There is already an infrastructure that is available in 95 percent of all health authorities, the digital immigration file, or DDA for short, that can be used.
Smudo: "We could already be connected in four weeks - to all health authorities!"
Ranga Yogeshwar criticizes Corona app: 67 million euros in tax money and one wonders: Who programmed that?
Anne Will wants to know: “And why does it fail then ?!” Smudo makes an annoyed hand gesture in the direction of Helge Braun: “Something like that!” The former Federal Minister of Justice Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger translates the rap speech into political German: “So a wrong priority setting! “And agrees with Smudo.
The legal expert grants the app the data protection seal and declares that she has already downloaded the app herself.
Science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar also comes out as a “Luca” fan: “We have to be quick.
Speed is everything.
We failed last year when it came to speed. ”The“ Luca ”app would remedy the problem, as it works with QR codes, which make tracking possible quickly and safely.
Yogeshwar doesn’t leave the Corona warning app good and is visibly outraged that 67 million euros in tax money have been spent on the app, where one would ask oneself when using it: “Who programmed that ?!” Helge Braun gets caught up in it Justification emergency and is not very convincing when he says: "This app has won the trust of 25 million Germans!" And: "The Corona app is a super instrument that belongs to it."
Helge Braun promises Anne Will: There will be free rapid tests for everyone
Anne Will switches to the next corona weapon: rapid antigen tests.
Health Minister Jens Spahn had announced free rapid tests on March 1, but was then called back by the Chancellor.
Helge Braun promises in the program: "There will be regular free tests for everyone!" He does not say how much "regular" means.
The President of the European Ethics Council Christiane Woopen calculates: With up to 800 million tests in 2021 with 43 weeks remaining, that means only about ten tests for each citizen!
Woopen thinks: far too little.
The philosophy professor demands: “Now we have to invest in production capacities.” Further tests would have to be developed that are even faster.
Woopen: “That's where the money belongs.” A cheaper and more sensible strategy than what would be paid as compensation for the lockdown!
Woopen makes it clear: We now need a safety net for the new mutations that would throw us back to the beginning of the corona pandemic without extensive tests and contact tracking.
Conclusion of the "Anne Will" talk
The show is a yardstick: Obviously, it is socially acceptable again to criticize the government and to make demands for openings clear.
A few weeks ago, anyone who said this threatened the suspicion of being a "corona denier" or even accepting the dead, the mood has now evidently shifted.
The displeasure is openly discussed.
