Comment: Vaccination opponents hui, climate protectors ugh

Created: 12/28/2022, 2:01 p.m

By: Hans Moritz

Hans Moritz, editor-in-chief of the Erdinger/Dorfener Anzeiger.

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Why were the vaccination opponents and corona critics pampered by the authorities, but the climate stickers were radically persecuted?

Hans Moritz, editor-in-chief of the Erdinger/Dorfener Anzeiger, raises this question.

Erding

- In the first few months of the pandemic, the strict rules with curfews and contact bans may have been justified - simply because nobody knew how violently the corona virus would rage.

But when the first vaccination successes were recorded, the Free State in particular should have relaxed more quickly and more sustainably.

After all, it was about the restriction of fundamental basic rights.

This would have to be reconsidered every day.

(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Erding newsletter.)

The sanction had a serious flaw, especially in 2021: On the one hand, crackdowns were taken, with the police suddenly even breaking up private parties and looking in the forest for young people who were simply suffering from loneliness.

On the other hand, the police and district office let the Monday walkers freely.

Several hundred of them were allowed to meet in a confined space and march through the city - without registration or permission.

The explanation that they wanted to prevent a further escalation was plausible at best in the first few weeks, after which the state let itself be fooled.

Let's turn the clock forward a little: When climate activists stick to the streets today, the outrage is enormous and the arm of the state is muscular: people are simply locked away for weeks as a preventive measure.

Just a reminder: The Monday walkers, the gathering place for opponents of vaccination, corona deniers and critics of the pandemic laws, blocked the city center in Erding for months.

None of them were carried away and imprisoned for disturbing public order.

No, a host of police officers escorted them through the city every week – justification: so that nothing happened to them.

That says a lot about the priority of protecting our livelihoods and the global basis of life.

Because here too, as with the pandemic, it is about saving human lives.