Corona is rolling over the country again.
The high number of unvaccinated people in Germany is apparently the main reason - Anne Will is amazed at the politics.
A corona warning comes first in the "Anne Will" talk.
A clip shows the otherwise rather hypothermic acting President of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) Lothar Wieler - vacillating between anger and despair - during a flaming appeal on Friday: “All of Germany is one big outbreak”.
The RKI boss warned of "hundreds of deaths a day" in the coming weeks.
And before a "bad Christmas".
Virologist Melanie Brinkmann, one of the advisors to the federal government, joins Wieler and speaks to Will of a "horror scenario" that will soon befall the country.
The exponential growth of the virus leads to a rapid increase in the number of cases within a very short time.
Even vaccinations, the protection of which will not take effect for a few weeks, could no longer stop the wave, says Brinkmann.
"Anne Will" - these guests discussed with:
Hubertus Heil (SPD)
- Federal Minister of Labor
Tobias Hans (CDU)
- Prime Minister in Saarland
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP)
- Member of the Bundestag and member of the FDP executive committee
Prof. Melanie Brinkmann
- virologist at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, member of the advisory team of the federal government
Prof. Cornelia Betsch
- psychologist for health communication at the University of Erfurt.
Last week, the expert criticized the politically responsible in a fire letter that, according to Brinkmann, had already signed by 500 colleagues.
The scientist once again vented her displeasure on the show: it had been intensely warned by science.
The tip of the balance is the vaccination quota - and the 30 percent of the unvaccinated in Germany were treated too lightly, especially in connection with the occurrence of the dangerous Delta variant.
In the meantime, she was “incredibly frustrated”.
Anne Will asks directly: “Can anything else be changed with the measures that have now been ordered?” Brinkmann's answer sounds sobering: “2G and 3G and home office” will no longer be sufficient - especially in regions where the incidences are already high: “ Saxony, Thuringia and Bavaria ”.
In other regions, wearing the mask is fundamentally important.
"How can it be that, despite all the warnings, we got into a real Corona emergency again?", Anne Will asks the central question of her broadcast in the room.
And asks the politicians and representatives of the CDU, SPD and FDP one after the other.
Corona dispute: CDU Prime Minister admits misjudgment - and criticizes Spahn
Tobias Hans, Prime Minister of Saarland, who has a relatively high vaccination rate in his federal state, explains that "at some point during the vaccination campaign" you noticed that you were "no longer getting new people". He himself had hoped that it would still be enough to "get over winter". Hans admits: “Of course I didn't foresee that the numbers would go up so massively!”.
The Saarlander rejects another discussion: "The compulsory vaccination is not the debate we need now," he says.
"Now I really ask you to concentrate all your strength on the vaccination." Later, Hans makes one sit up and take notice: A criticism from Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) and the possible FDP minister Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann to party friend Jens Spahn (CDU ) he agrees without further ado: Rationing the Biontech vaccine is the wrong signal, he thinks - regardless of who makes this move.
Corona at "Anne Will" (ARD): Bad surprise when the vaccinations are effective?
But unlike Brinkmann, Hans does not generally see the failure in the political guild: "It has to do with the fact that the protective effect of the vaccination also wears off more and earlier than one might have hoped." He now wants a focus on the boosters - Set vaccinations and demand - after Brinkmann threw in that the first and second vaccinations are more decisive than the booster vaccinations - an amendment to the vaccination ordinance so that pharmacists, veterinarians and dentists can also administer vaccines in Germany in the future.
Heil makes no secret of his concern in the face of the situation.
He had looked at a corona intensive care unit - he could "no longer get the pictures out of his head, even of young people with very bad courses," the minister is approachable.
The program uses Heil to appeal to the audience: “Get vaccinated if you haven't already done that!” He calls into the camera, all other citizens should take care of a refresher.
FDP defends cautious corona course: The measures have led to new problems
Strack-Zimmermann explains the skepticism of politicians about embarking on the scientific course completely, with the "major social problems" that went hand in hand with the pandemic.
Some of the measures led to a shift in the problem areas and were therefore not real solutions.
The measures taken have led to the containment of the coronavirus, but on the other hand brought serious economic and financial damage.
Depression, but also enormous deficits in development and education for children, adolescents and trainees are consequences of this - there are whole class trains at lower levels who have not learned to write properly.
Conclusion of the "Anne Will" talk
Anne Wills Talk sheds light on how Corona changes or even reshapes society.
On the one hand the enlightened, on the other hand the loners, who in the current case represent a deadly danger.
What to do about the loss of trust in politics and society was not clarified in the program.
Verena Schulemann
