Nuremberg's mayor is open about Omikron infection - and has to plug in "malice and swagger" in the network

Created: 01/12/2022, 10:49 AM

From: Tanja Kipke

Nuremberg's Mayor Marcus König was infected with the corona virus.

(Archive image) © Daniel Karmann / dpa

Nuremberg's Lord Mayor Marcus König has been infected with Corona.

He is open about his infection on social media - the reactions to it are divided.

Nuremberg - On Saturday (January 8), the city of Nuremberg announced * that Mayor Marcus König (CSU) had tested positive for the corona virus *.

He has only mild symptoms and is now in quarantine at home.

He will be performing his official duties from home this week.

König is open about his infection on social networks.

He announced that he had contracted his son despite the vaccination and booster.

The reactions to this, however, are divided, among the many recovery wishes would also mix "malice and oaths", the OB reports via Twitter.

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Nuremberg OB infected with Corona: reactions in the network split - "quacks"

It is always interesting to see "how differently people react on different social media platforms," ​​says König via Twitter. On Instagram, he "almost only" received nice wishes. "Corona deniers / vaccination opponents hardly there." There was a similar picture on Facebook, but there were already the first discussions about the sense or nonsense of a vaccination. On Twitter, he then had to take a lot of "malice and swaggering". "And from Telegram I learn that it is mainly conspiracy theories that are spread," writes König.

In an interview with

, the Lord Mayor of Nuremberg * gives an insight into what he had to listen to because of his infection.

"I was referred to as a quack and asked whether I had injected myself with saline solutions, many people throw themselves up," König told the news portal.

"Others say that I shouldn't have published what you do is always wrong." On Telegram, he would have mainly experienced malice.

“You see, none of that does any good, they said.

They are kidding us and want to suppress us. ”You can always plan it how you want.

Ob König is still against the regulation of messengers

Despite the malice and conspiracy theories on Telegram, König does not believe that the messenger should be regulated.

"People will exchange ideas everywhere and if we no longer know where they are doing it and censor, then it shifts into a dark channel," he says at

Regarding his omicron infection, the OB declares he will

Dealing with it "openly and transparently", after all, does not do anything to hide it.

Of course, he's scared, precisely because you don't know what Long Covid means.

"Some have problems after a week, others have problems after a month," he says in an interview with