Corona frustration among children and adolescents is great.
Now their situation has worsened again due to the 2G regulation for youth clubs.
Youth ring boss Matthias Fack has a fear.
Munich / Wolfratshausen - There is something that currently worries Matthias Fack even more than corona infection numbers * or new virus mutations *: the situation of many children and adolescents during Corona *. As President of the Bavarian Youth Association, he is in close contact with many youth workers and specialists. "The depression and anxiety are increasing rapidly," he reports. He is convinced that youth work could absorb a lot - if a strict 2G rule did not apply to youth centers and meeting places.
A few weeks ago, 3G was still in effect, he reports.
That worked well, all youth centers had developed hygiene concepts that the young people adhered to.
Since the latest infection protection ordinance *, many have been excluded because they have not yet had a vaccination appointment.
"Younger siblings can take part in offers, we have to send them back home if they have not yet been vaccinated twice," reports Fack.
Other young people would no longer come because their friends have not yet been vaccinated and are therefore not allowed to go to the youth center.
Fack fears that many meetings would take place in the private sphere.
"But then without tests, without masks and without a hygiene concept."
Corona: Youth workers watch the 2G rule with concern - "locked out of the youth center"
Other youth workers are also watching this with great concern.
"Many young people have been completely unfounded for a year and a half," says Rudi Mühlhans from Geretsried (Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district).
"And now they are also locked out of the youth center, where they can meet their friends or escape the situation at home."
Many young people have been completely unfounded for a year and a half.
Youth worker Rudi Mühlhans
In the La Vida youth center in Wolfratshausen *, 40 boys and girls used to visit to listen to music or play billiards together.
Currently there are around four spread over the whole day, reports manager Max Aichbichler.
“Often young people come here who are looking for a connection, need society or want to talk about problems that they cannot solve on their own.
When they are then in the empty youth center, it throws them back, ”he emphasizes.
Corona: Youth ring boss Matthias Fack sharply criticizes the 2G rule for youth clubs
The teenage years are a very important phase, emphasizes BJR President Fack. "This is the age at which young people are looking for their place in life, learning to interact socially, to work together in groups." Especially in the Corona time *, it is the youth workers who would give them stability. Now they have the problem that they can no longer reach everyone. Fack cannot understand why 2G applies to youth work. “After all, we are no longer at the beginning of the pandemic, we can test and have functioning hygiene concepts. Many youth centers have also relocated their services outdoors in order to keep the risk of infection as low as possible.
Fack also sharply criticizes the new regulation, after students who have not been vaccinated and who have not recovered can only use public transport during the holidays with a test certificate.
"This is amazing, especially for young people in rural areas it can quickly mean isolation." And many children and young people would not be able to cope with that at all.
Corona: 2G rule in youth clubs - "Worries and fears are huge"
The 2G rule * means a role backwards for youth work, emphasizes Fack.
"It will be difficult to make up what is now lost." For a twelve-year-old, two years of a pandemic are one sixth of their entire life and therefore much more serious than for an adult, he emphasizes.
“Children and young people still have little experience with crises, their worries and fears are huge now.” He hopes that youth work in Bavaria will be able to absorb more of this in the coming year.
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