The sports clubs had only just recovered from the corona lockdown, and those responsible for sports in the city and district are already facing the next problem: How to deal with those who refuse to be vaccinated?
A case from Indersdorf proves that there is a deep gap in membership on this issue.
Dachau
- A member of the Indersdorfer handball team didn't really make a secret of the fact that he was skeptical about vaccinations. In the department management, according to Lars Röckle, they were not necessarily enthusiastic about this attitude, but they tolerated it, especially since the member had largely withdrawn from the club's life anyway.
However, word of the member's skepticism about vaccinations, which was more or less publicly presented, seemed to have got around. At least a few days ago, handball boss Röckle found an anonymous letter in the club's mailbox in which the member was badly insulted. An excerpt: “Because of people like you, my child can no longer go to sport. Thought about it once? No, of course not, idiots like that are all about ME, ME, ME. Hopefully you will die miserably from the virus. "
Because it is not a crime to wish other people dead, but an insult to call other people "idiots", the Dachau police are now investigating anonymity.
The handball department stands behind the member.
A statement published on the website of the Indersdorf Panthers states that the club "distances itself from such and hurtful messages to the members of our handball family".
Because even “if everything does not go to everyone's satisfaction”, “hostility of this kind is out of place and will not be tolerated in our association”.
+
Lars Röckle, handball department head at TSV Indersdorf, asks his athletes for tolerance and solidarity
© TSV Indersdorf
The hostile member no longer wants to express himself publicly when asked. He speaks of a "witch hunt" and is now even "afraid for my family", as he explains. Head of department Röckle, who has been in office for over a year, asks amateur athletes - not only from Indersdorf - for "tolerance and solidarity". If someone doesn't want to be vaccinated, "then we can still do it": Unlike many other clubs, the Indersdorfer handball players would not have had to cancel a team.
Andreas Wilhelm, chairman of the ASV Dachau, is like Röckle "happy for everyone who gets vaccinated". However, he also knows the problem that not everyone in the club wants the prick. “Bad letters”, even if not as sharp as they are now in Indersdorf, ended up regularly in the ASV mailbox. There are, he sighs, “currently two camps that can no longer talk to each other”.
Politics, however, do not make his work easier.
For almost two years he has been striving to implement the announcements from Munich to the letter.
How difficult this is at times can also be illustrated using the example of vaccination.
The 2G rule now applies to members, that is, only those who have been vaccinated or recovered are allowed to exercise;
for pupils - who are tested closely in school - there is an exception until the end of the year.
You can (still) enter the hall without a prick.
An underage trainee who does not currently have a vocational school but is in the company has to stay outside.
+
Andreas Wilhelm, chairman of ASV Dachau, has been struggling with regulations since the beginning of the pandemic, soliciting understanding and trying, as it were, to keep the sports going.
© ASV Dachau
It gets even trickier with "employees" of the association, who according to the current regulations do not have to be vaccinated, but only have to be PCR-tested twice a week.
Because, according to Wilhelm: “Who is employed?” Does this rule also apply to voluntary, unvaccinated trainers who receive an allowance?
The result of this unresolved question, so Wilhelm, is: "There are still unvaccinated people in the association."
Like Lars Röckle, he is currently almost exclusively occupied with mediating between the fronts - although the pitch "has rapidly deteriorated for ten days".
The Indersdorfer Röckle says that "sport is unfortunately no longer talked about".
The Deputy Police Chief of Dachau, Stefan Priller, emphasizes in this context that anyone who receives “defamatory” letters or other hostility from vaccination supporters or opponents should report to the police.
"If someone needs help, then we are there."