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Here with a mask: FDP Vice Wolfgang Kubicki
Photo: ANNEGRET HILSE / REUTERS
When the first corona cases occurred in Germany at the beginning of 2020, politicians hardly reacted at first - then with all the tougher measures.
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) was initially responsible, but his successor Karl Lauterbach (SPD) got involved in the debate about the obligation to wear masks and hygiene regulations early on.
Lauterbach has now described some of the early decisions as wrong, some even as "bullshit".
For the FDP Vice-Chairman Wolfgang Kubicki reason enough to call for his resignation.
"Karl Lauterbach was one of those who helped to exclude critical scientific voices, stir up panic himself and shift the borders of the constitutional state," Kubicki wrote on his Facebook page.
»If he thinks he can now get on with the agenda with a 'spontaneous mentality', then that would be fatal for the democratic, constitutional and social process of coming to terms with things.«
»Nobody would accuse Karl Lauterbach of an honorable resignation«
In the Facebook entry, the Deputy President of the Bundestag sharply criticized the corona policy of the past three years.
This has failed particularly in children and the elderly.
Children were deprived of life chances with the deliberate creation of fear, older people in old people's homes were treated inhumanely.
"No one would accuse Karl Lauterbach of an honorable resignation," sums up Kubicki.
In his criticism, Kubicki referred to Lauterbach's appearance on the ZDF program "Markus Lanz" on Thursday evening.
There, in retrospect, the minister himself had again criticized parts of the Corona policy.
"What was nonsense, if I can speak so freely, these rules are outside," he said, referring to the temporary ban on going jogging without a mask.
He also said: "If we hadn't taken the measures (...) we would have just let it go (...), then around a million people would have died of Corona in Germany." Kubicki accused him of trying to with untruths to save "his residual reputation".
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