Debate about corona rules: vaccinated, recovered, tested.
Should the three groups be treated equally?
The federal government is planning disadvantages for unvaccinated people, also in order to promote protection.
Berlin / Munich - The headline is harmless, it could also be a guide booklet for winter tires.
The Federal Ministry of Health has given its latest paper on Corona * policy “Safe through autumn and winter”.
But the content is being discussed very heatedly: The ministry of Jens Spahn *, CDU *, presents concrete proposals to tighten the measures against the pandemic again in a few weeks.
Tenor: Autumn and winter will be more dangerous than most politicians suspect.
Coronavirus: Vaccinated and convalescent people should hardly be subject to restrictions
On the six pages that were sent to the health ministers of the federal states on Tuesday evening, the passage on dealing with unvaccinated people is particularly explosive. If the corona situation worsens, "further restrictions may become necessary" especially for them, according to the paper that our newspaper has. "These include, in particular, contact restrictions as well as the limitation of participation or the exclusion from participation of non-vaccinated people in events and in the catering trade." The decisive factors should be the vaccination rate, the incidence by age group and the hospitalization rate of corona cases. Exact numbers and limit values are still open.
The short formula is: 2G instead of 3G.
Vaccinated and convalescent people should hardly be subject to restrictions.
However, those who have been tested without vaccination are no longer treated on an equal footing with them everywhere.
That would be a change of strategy.
Scientifically, this can be explained with a higher risk that rapid tests often do not show an infectious disease in the early stages.
The political side effect would be to be able to get more people to vaccinate.
However, it is still about a huge group: 32 million people in Germany are currently not vaccinated.
Jens Spahn: "It is our common goal to avoid a new lockdown"
Spahn is behind this differentiation. “The goal of all of us is to avoid a new lockdown. And it can also be avoided if everyone helps, ”he says in an interview with our newspaper. "My suggestions serve this purpose." Spahn also brings combined solutions into discussion. That, for example, 30,000 people are allowed to be vaccinated in a football stadium, but only 2,000 people tested without the vaccination protection.
There is vigorous protest from several parties.
Most angrily of FDP * Vice Wolfgang Kubicki: "The announcement that it intends to exclude unvaccinated people from visiting restaurants in the future is the most brazen and devastating breach of word by this federal government, which has repeatedly sworn stone and leg that there will be no compulsory vaccination in Germany," says he the
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Left-wing politicians and the AfD are also protesting against it.
Incidentally, Spahn cannot prescribe this course, it is up to the federal states.
His paper should set the tone for the Prime Minister's Conference on Tuesday.
They talk about measures, new rules, limit values and formulas.
For Bavaria it is not yet clear whether “2G” or “3G” should apply
For Bavaria it is not yet clear whether “2G” or “3G” should apply. Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) has great sympathy for opening some areas exclusively to vaccinated and convalescent people. He brought up the opening of bars and discos for these two groups in July. Resistance, however, comes from the coalition partner Free Voters, and energetically.
Group leader Florian Streibl - himself a supporter of the vaccination campaign - says that "those who have been tested must continue to be granted the same freedoms as those who have recovered and those who have been vaccinated". His party friend Alexander Hold, vice-president of the state parliament, even sees Spahn's plan as "the bold attempt to discriminate against and punish unvaccinated people in order to force them to vaccinate". That is "unworthy of a free constitutional state".
- BY CHRISTIAN DEUTSCHLÄNDER AND SEBASTIAN HORSCH - * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.