Partial compulsory vaccination expires: Corona and politics - stories of failure
Created: 11/23/2022, 1:45 p.m
By: Sebastian Horsch
The partial vaccination requirement for employees in clinics, homes or practices has been lifted.
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The corona vaccination requirement in the health care system in Germany will be lifted.
It was never really thought through anyway, comments Sebastian Horsch.
It is correct that the partial vaccination obligation for employees in clinics, homes or practices ends.
After all, it was only supposed to be the first step in a general obligation to vaccinate, which never came - from today's perspective, because of the low protection against infection and in view of the often milder course of the disease, probably rightly so.
Corona vaccination in the healthcare system expires at the end of 2022
The industry vaccination requirement was never well thought out anyway.
The authorities did not see themselves in a position to examine all the accumulating cases of refusers.
And even if they could have, occupational bans would have resulted in staff shortages, which would have put additional pressure on the hospitals and homes suffering from a lack of care.
Bayern preferred not to implement it consistently.
The phasing out of the rule is now the culmination of another story of political failure, much of which the pandemic wrote.
The Federal Administrative Court has now even confirmed that the Bavarian contact and exit restrictions were sometimes disproportionate.
But despite all the justified criticism, it is too easy to look back and only point to the politicians who messed it all up.
One mustn't forget the uncertainty and the pressure they sometimes had to make decisions under.
That may excuse some misjudgments or at least explain them.
However, that does not apply to the fact that individual MPs have enriched themselves as middlemen for mask deals.
Even in hindsight, their actions remain simply shabby – albeit probably legitimate.
