A Facebook interview from Murnau causes massive trouble.
Wolfram Popp, manager of the accident clinic, expresses himself extremely critical of the vaccination policy.
Now the head of an intensive care unit is threatened with consequences.
The clinic keeps a distance.
Murnau
- The fourth corona wave has the republic firmly under control. Almost 5,000 people were most recently in intensive care with Covid. A survey by the German Hospital Association says: nationwide, three quarters of all hospitals have to postpone operations that can be planned. More than half of corona intensive care patients have to be ventilated. Many clinics are at their limit.
With this in mind, one would like to assume that managers of intensive care units are vaccinated.
Obviously, this is not the case everywhere.
Wolfram Popp, head of the intensive care unit 123 at the Berufsgenossenschaftlichen Unfallklinik Murnau, said in an interview these days that he would not be vaccinated.
He feared the risk of side effects and harm.
Popp does not believe in compulsory vaccinations for certain professions.
Among those who oppose immunization, there are some who said: "Even if a vaccination is compulsory, I will not get vaccinated." These people would then be "pushed out of the hospital".
In his opinion, people who refuse to be injected have to live with “structural discrimination in public”.
Interview in the Murnau Center
The musician Toni Bartl conducted the interview with Popp at a meeting in the Murnau pedestrian zone.
He posted it on his Facebook page.
By late Monday afternoon, around 100 people had gathered in the market town.
The demo was not registered.
"We wanted to set an example against the planned mandatory vaccination for clinical facilities," said the representative of a group of UKM nurses on the following day.
The AfD district association had advertised the action.
The nurses are distanced from the party.
In any case, Popp was available to answer Bartl's questions for almost a quarter of an hour.
The musician deals critically with the topic of vaccination and the corona policy, but has also published articles in which he uttered conspiracy whispers.
Clinic takes a distance
Popps appearance is not without consequences. The hospital management of the accident clinic "expressly distances itself from the statements and behavior of an employee", it says in a statement. “On December 6, 2021, as part of a protest against the mandatory vaccination in his role as a manager of the clinic, he questioned the benefit of corona vaccinations. He has abused his function to publicly and unauthorized disseminate his private views in the clinic. ”The incident is currently being processed internally and“ the corresponding consequences are being examined ”. Popp could not be reached on Wednesday, an email went unanswered.
One of the people who watched the said video is Patricia Fichtl.
The head of the lake asks: “Since when has it been no longer possible to express one's opinion?
Mr. Popp did not make heretical statements, nor did he question the benefits of the vaccination.
He only said that not everyone has the same probability of getting seriously ill with corona and that there should therefore be an individual risk-benefit analysis. "
Murnau's police chief Joachim Loy finds it annoying that the meeting was not registered.
"Such meetings must be reported." Those responsible should "name horse and rider" in advance.
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