Explosive key points paper from the traffic light group: This is what compulsory vaccination should look like from the age of 18

Created: 02/05/2022, 06:50

By: Andreas Schmid

Olaf Scholz wants a general obligation to vaccinate.

A group led by FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann has now drafted a key issues paper.

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Olaf Scholz wants vaccinations to be compulsory from the age of 18.

From the traffic light there are now concrete ideas for the design of a law.

Berlin – In Germany, a general vaccination requirement has been discussed for months.

In essence, there are four possible scenarios that the members of the Bundestag should vote on in a timely manner: no vaccination requirement, vaccination requirement on demand if required, vaccination requirement from the age of 50, vaccination requirement from the age of 18. With regard to the latter option, there is now a first key issues paper, the the possible provisions.

Compulsory vaccination from 18: vaccine, duration, register, fine - these regulations could come

Vaccination is to apply to all adults “permanently resident in Germany” and is apparently accompanied by three injections.

This is interesting because there were already Stiko recommendations for the fourth vaccination.

People should be free to choose which vaccine they want.

"Selection must be possible," says the key points paper by members of parliament, about which the

reports.

In addition, the obligation to vaccinate should be limited to December 31, 2023.

The cornerstones of the draft law also stipulate that special constellations, such as the handling of clearly medically justified exceptions, should be regulated by ordinance on a science-based basis.

In addition to medical regulations, the paper probably also deals with provisions of an organizational nature. The health insurance companies should make a decisive contribution to the implementation of a possible law. The health insurance companies should not only inform, but also document. According to the key points paper, they should request vaccination certificates from the insured. The paper says: "The health insurance companies will be provided with a technical solution (vaccination portal) in order to be able to collect the vaccination certificates in a data-saving and data-protected manner."

The question remains what happens to people who do not want to be vaccinated despite being vaccinated.

There are many indications of a fine procedure, similar to that in Austria*.

The Alpine Republic is the only Western democracy in which a general vaccination requirement, i.e. one that is mandatory for everyone, has already come into force.

So far, nothing is known about the amount of the fine in Germany.

Green health politician Janosch Dahmen recently said that he could imagine penalties “in the mid three-digit range”.

So-called compulsory detention should be avoided.

Compulsory vaccination from 18: Seven traffic light politicians involved in the key points paper

Several MPs from different factions are in favor of the 18+ model, above all politicians from the SPD, Greens and FDP. The cornerstone paper is signed only by parliamentarians from the traffic light coalition: Dagmar Schmidt, Heike Baehrens, Dirk Wiese (all SPD), Janosch Dahmen, Till Steffen (both Green) as well as Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann and Katrin Helling-Plahr ( both FDP). However, the seven initiators are open to supporters from other groups, as the deputy SPD parliamentary group leader Schmidt told the

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Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz* and Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (both SPD) also favor compulsory vaccination for all adults.

From the point of view of the MPs, the aim of compulsory vaccination should be to protect society and the health system from renewed overload and to build up “a high level of basic immunity in good time before next winter”.

Overall, the SPD and the Greens have the greatest approval for general vaccination.

This is the result of a recent survey of all 736 MPs.

The FDP, on the other hand, is significantly more skeptical than its red-green coalition partners.

A quarter of all MPs were in favor of general vaccination from the age of 18, 18 percent reject it entirely.

Exciting: not even three percent voted for the model from 50 years.

The rest indicated that they were still undecided or did not want to comment.

Those who are undecided also seem to be waiting for more concrete draft laws - or want to present them themselves, such as the Union.

The possible introduction of compulsory vaccination is expected to be voted on in the Bundestag in March.