Sahra Wagenknecht (left) spoke out against corona vaccinations at Anne Will's on Sunday evening, much to the displeasure of health expert Lauterbach (SPD).
There is also criticism from within their own party.
Berlin - Sahra Wagenknecht is controversial even within her own party.
During her appearance in the ARD talk at Anne Will on Sunday evening, she remained true to her role: She expressed widespread misinformation about the corona vaccination and thus caused trouble in her own ranks.
The doctor and health expert Karl Lauterbach (SPD) factually dismantled each of their objections.
Wagenknecht vs. Lauterbach: That's how the politicians argue
Sahra Wagenknecht finds it presumptuous to say what the vaccine will do in five or ten years. So said the left-wing politician on Sunday in the ARD program Anne Will. She also found it questionable that Biontech-Pfizer's contracts stipulate that the manufacturer is not liable for long-term consequences. "If there are no long-term consequences, I ask myself why are there such clauses?" She wants to lift the pressure on unvaccinated people in the population. Wagenknecht has not yet had herself vaccinated because she does not know the long-term consequences. She would be more likely to get vaccinated if there was a dead vaccine based on the classic procedure. She was skeptical about the “new type of vaccine”.
Karl Lauterbach (SPD) replied to Wagenknecht's statements that all experts in the world can rule out the possibility of a long-term side effect. Thereupon Wagenknecht interrupted him: “But the manufacturers obviously not!” Claims the politician of the left. “I listened to you very patiently,” Lauterbach recalls and continues his argument: “We are not hiding anything here, it has never been the case that a vaccine had a side effect very late. What happened is that a side effect was very rare and you only saw it when many people were vaccinated, but then you saw it early anyway. ”The clauses with the manufacturers are also nothing new. If the state recommends a vaccination, the state is always liable, according to Lauterbach.From Lauterbach's point of view, mentioning the manufacturer's clauses is a “robber pistol”.
Lauterbach calls for solidarity: "Vaccination is also a social decision!"
Wagenknecht spoke several times of a novel vaccine, referring to the mRNA vaccine.
She also stated that vaccinating was not an "act of solidarity with others" because people who had been vaccinated would also pass the virus on.
There is often talk of novel vaccines, explained Lauterbach, but that too is wrong.
“It's not just that mRNA vaccines are offered, we also have vector vaccines.
They are always used! ”Even the rarest side effects are seen when a vaccine has been used 500 million times.
He demanded: “One must not unsettle the people we are now asking for vaccination.
The vaccines are safe! "
"I also do not agree with you that it is a purely individual decision, Ms. Wagenknecht," said the SPD health expert.
“It is, but it is also a social one.” Because vaccination does not only protect yourself, but also others.
Lauterbach and the science journalist Christina Brandt put forward two arguments for this in the show: On the one hand, vaccinated people have a lower chance of being infected in the first six months.
After that, the viral load is the same, but the viruses are less alive.
This means that those who have been vaccinated twice are less contagious.
In addition, those who have been vaccinated also put less strain on the intensive care units.
Criticism from my own party: "I cannot and will no longer explain Wagenknecht"
After appearing as a vaccine skeptic on Anne Will's ARD show, Sahra Wagenknecht is now facing headwinds from her own party. The leader of the party Die Linke Susanne Hennig-Wellsow emphasized on Monday in Berlin that her party supports the vaccination campaigns. Vaccination is "also the responsibility for others." It is therefore not banal to refuse vaccination or to discourage vaccination, noted the left-wing politicians with regard to Wagenknecht's statements, as the German press agency reported. “I cannot and will not explain to Sahra Wagenknecht any more,” Hennig-Wellsow continued.
A long-time companion Wagenknecht, Dietmar Bartsch, also spoke out on Twitter in favor of getting vaccinated against Corona.
The domestic policy spokeswoman in Saxony-Anhalt, Henriette Quade, also commented on Wagenknecht's remarks on the short message service: "Your oaths endanger people, you don't need podiums, but opposition." The position of Sahra Wagenknecht is incompatible with the left, said party member Raul Zelik.
The member of the state parliament in Saxony, Jule Nagel asked: "Who does Wagenknecht represent with Anne wants with medical half-knowledge and vaccination skepticism?"
