Germany does not have the corona crisis under control. At least Anne Will’s guests on ARD agree on this.
Alpha, Delta, Omikron: They have us under control and we don’t even know which damned Corona variants are still waiting for us, let alone that we would agree on what to do against the stranglehold of the virus. So the talk shows, waiting rooms of the nation, are devoted to the same topic, slightly modified.
“Vaccination compulsory and lockdown for unvaccinated people – will the federal and state governments regain control?”, Anne Will asked on ARD, and the tenor of the responses from her guests was: There is still no control. Because: How do you want to control, asked the emergency doctor Carola Holzner, whose presence at such rounds you are always grateful for, because she says what’s going on in crystal clear sentences. So she opened the evening with a description of her attempts to find a bed for an emergency patient – the doctor as a telephone operator.
Talk with Anne Will (ARD): Contacts in private areas cannot be controlled
And while Markus Söder (CSU), who first extensively praised himself as usual, praised contact restrictions as the remedy, but that was “the hardest”, Cerstin Gammelin also objected that contacts, for example in the private sector, were “not at all control ”, referring to her own experience. FDP man Kuhle could assert in vain: “Contacts will take place.” His word in the German conductor’s ear …
Karl Lauterbach (SPD) made it clear that more effective measures against the virus are necessary. Vaccinated and convalescents are also at risk from the Omikron variant; the data from Israel, for example, are cause for concern. “I read studies on this every hour.” But he will probably not be Minister of Health after all, concluded from his reaction to Anne Will’s question in the ARD. What Carola Holzner regretted. “We would be delighted because you are a specialist”. And another praise came from the competition: Markus Söder pointed out that a new minister would need some training, but Lauterbach did not. He could do that, because “he has a basic compass.”
| name of the guest | function |
|---|---|
| Markus Söder (CSU) | Prime Minister of Bavaria |
| Karl Lauterbach (SPD) | Member of the Bundestag, health economist and epidemiologist |
| Konstantin Kuhle | Domestic policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group |
| Carola Holzner | Specialist in anesthesia, intensive care medicine and emergency medicine; also known as medical blogger Doc Caro |
| Cerstin Gammelin | Deputy head of the parliamentary office of the Süddeutsche Zeitung |
Karl Lauterbach remains true to his line with Anne Will on ARD
The Social Democrat, mocked by angry tongues because of his warnings in various TV appearances, also as “Kassandra”, remained true to his line: You have to boost as quickly as possible, “We are now vaccinating against time.”
After a banter about the FDP’s lawsuit against the federal emergency brake, Söder recalled that at first everyone pulled together. But Anne Will (“You are the self-proclaimed chairman of the caution club”) had prepared a single player who clearly listed Bavaria’s deficits. And Söder had to admit that he was “surprised” by the number of breakthroughs in the vaccination and, moreover, there were a particularly large number of vaccine opponents in his country: “Half of the non-medical practitioners are in Bavaria.”
Karl Lauterbach speaks out in favor of compulsory vaccination with Anne Will (ARD)
Another clip showed that initially all the relevant politicians were against the vaccination requirement. Now Lauterbach said that he was in favor of compulsory vaccination, without it “we keep getting into these waves”. But this contradiction, that the obligation to get vaccinated had previously been ruled out, made Holzner a problem. Cerstin Gammelin pointed out that nurses could quit if they were required to have a job-related vaccination, and while Kuhle said that the aim was to increase the vaccination rate, Holzner countered him: “The hospitals are now full.”
Anne Will in the ARD media library
Did you miss the show? No problem, you can still watch the talk with Anne Will in the ARD media library.
Anne Will said that the compulsory vaccination would increase aggression, referring to right-wing attacks such as those recently perpetrated by fascists and rascals in Saxony. The state must not allow itself to be blackmailed, affirmed Lauterbach. Gammelin believes that the introduction of the general compulsory vaccination will divide society less than the debate about it. And practitioner Holzner trusts in the persuasiveness of words. And demonstrated very convincingly how she brings a vaccination opponent to understand in a dialogue. (Daland Sailors)
