Under the title “No Protection, No Freedom – Lockdown for Unvaccinated”, celebrities at Maybrit Illner on ZDF demand forbearance with other celebrities.
Frankfurt – The federal election in 2021 is over, the coalition negotiations are ongoing and in autumn the Corona issue is back on the TV agenda. This also applies to Maybrit Illner and her political talk on ZDF. Because the numbers are increasing. Despite a sufficient vaccine.
One of the reasons for this is that many people still do not want to be vaccinated. Like the national soccer player Joshua Kimmich, employed by FC Bayern Munich. Who is neither a corona denier nor a lateral thinker. Together with his colleague Leon Goretzka, he launched the “We Kick Corona” initiative. He is therefore not to be blamed for a lack of community spirit. This does not detract from the debate about Joshua Kimmich’s statements over the past few weeks.
Maybrit Illner on ZDF: Where does the fear of the corona vaccination come from?
Where do Kimmich’s concerns come from? Where does the fear of as yet unknown long-term effects come from? And is it dangerous when celebrities like Kimmich publicly come out as unvaccinated? Maybrit Illner also talks about this with her guests on ZDF.
Boris Palmer, Lord Mayor of Tübingen and party member of the Greens, who, as he himself says, has had some experience with shitstorms, pleads in the current issue of Maybrit Illner on ZDF not to boil up the whole Kimmich issue. “Someone said something that was empirically wrong”, that could be refuted in a very factual manner, and that ended the debate.
Maybrit Illner on ZDF: Boris Palmer and Johannes B. Kerner protect Kimmich
Peter Tschentscher (SPD), the First Mayor of Hamburg, advises Maybrit Illner (ZDF) against drawing attention to the unvaccinated. Kimmich is a very good professional footballer, but that doesn’t make him a “vaccination expert”. The concerns he has about the corona vaccine are his own personal opinion.
To the broadcast
“Maybrit Illner” – the political talk on ZDF on October 28, 2021.
Moderator Johannes B. Kerner, who is connected to the ZDF program, would not “pull the nose ring through the arena” for Joshua Kimmich because he made a mistake. That’s reassuring. But, according to Kerner, with his concerns, the lateral thinking part of the population, he involuntarily gave an argumentative boost. “They say now, look, Joshua Kimmich, even he won’t be vaccinated.”
Doubts about the celebrity as a role model at Maybrit Illner on ZDF
The family doctor Sibylle Katzenstein, who runs a Covid-19 practice in Berlin, thinks that “all this moral idiocy has to get out of the discussion”. She did not believe in the role model function of celebrities or politicians. Much more important is to establish a relationship of trust with the patient in which fears can also be discussed.
Alena Buyx, Chairwoman of the German Ethics Council, is a bit more critical. For them, a pandemic is not a private matter and vaccination is a moral duty. Since you not only protect yourself, but also others, you are making an important contribution to ending the pandemic with your vaccination.
Maybrit Illner on ZDF: Virologist names three crucial points for autumn and winter
The virologist Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, however, does not want to pay attention to the pro-contra vaccination debate. For him, three points are decisive for the coming autumn: first, the implementation and organization of the booster vaccinations. Second, low-threshold, high-quality test offers and third, the topic of care emergencies. The latter in particular has been kept silent for a long time.
The guests at Maybrit Illner on ZDF
| Boris Palmer | Lord Mayor of Tübingen (Greens) |
| Peter Tschentscher | First Mayor of Hamburg (SPD) |
| Johannes B. Kerner | Moderator |
| Alena Buyx | Chair of the German Ethics Council |
| Sibylle Katzenstein | Family doctor specializing in Covid-19 |
| Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit | Virologist at the University of Hamburg |
At the beginning of the pandemic, it was said that the care professions should be upgraded as soon as necessary. You haven’t heard or seen anything about it yet. Instead, the nurse Ricardo Lange, who loudly and clearly points out the grievances in nursing, is banned from a clinic as a leasing employee because of this. A good next topic for a politics talk. (Bettina Schuler)
