Comment: Corona is now a private matter
Created: 07/02/2022, 07:00
By: Hans Moritz
Hans Moritz, editor-in-chief of the Erdinger/Dorfener Anzeiger.
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"I'll be gone then." That is currently the attitude of the federal government in the corona pandemic.
At the moment he can afford it.
It's still not a strategy for the future - our comment on the weekend.
Corona has not been a political issue since yesterday, Friday, and the federal government has almost completely said goodbye to pandemic management.
That Berlin is taking this step under Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, who was one of the loudest admonishers from the start and was never at a loss for crisp doomsday scenarios.
If quick tests in pharmacies & Co. are now subject to a fee, they will hardly be used - as in autumn 2021.
If you want to be on the safe side, you can still get an antigen test in a discount store.
Worse is the slippage at the screening sites, for which the federal government did not find any regulations, so that the Free State had to step into the breach.
If the counties had closed the screening centers or had to close them for lack of responsibility, public health would have lost all control over the pandemic.
Because the screening centers are not only the facilities in which an infection is reliably and officially detected.
With their data, they also make it possible to get an overview of the infection process.
It would all have collapsed.
Since yesterday, Friday, Corona has primarily been a private matter.
This is not a problem at the moment because the omicron variant and its subtypes continue to cause high numbers of infections, but the clinics are not overrun.
The state withdrawal also harbors risks.
If SarsCoV2 should become more dangerous again in autumn, the defense infrastructure will be missing.
At the end of the chain are the clinics.
Unfortunately, while society has recovered, they are a long way from that.
And: Will the children then be made to pay again – and will the schools be the first to close?
If the pandemic is a private matter, education must not become it again.
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