Alaaf and Helau – exuberant swaying will again be difficult or even impossible this year. Kar Lauterbach would much rather have a summer carnival.
Cologne – Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) gives carnival fans and organizers little hope of a reasonably normal session.
“I think that the carnival this year is probably well advised not to rely on the feasibility,” said Lauterbach on WDR 2. There the 58-year-old Cologne-born man stood for three hours of questions and answers about this Corona issue.
“I cannot imagine that we can hold the carnival. And it’s not a good carnival either, “argued Lauterbach and raised concerns:” What kind of carnival is it where you try to be happy, but where there is always the risk of infecting yourself or others and then may have to reckon with a serious illness? “
Many diseases cannot be prevented, but: “Here it is a possibility that we all have. I would actually prefer a summer carnival, which then takes place under safe conditions, than trying to navigate our way through here and endanger ourselves. I think that’s not right. “
Indoor carnival events, whether private or public, Lauterbach would “cancel in any case, whenever possible”. With a view to the wave of the coronavirus variant Omikron, which he expects at the beginning of the year at the latest, the Minister of Health warned the jitters to be particularly careful.
More than ten people shouldn’t meet anyway. “And the fewer group meetings there are, the better. Therefore, from my point of view, the indoor carnival is unfortunately not really realistic this year. I don’t think we’ll get any other ratings in the next few weeks. ”Dpa
