Massive Corona tests only cause panic, according to Kickl – Coronavirus Vienna

For Herbert Kickl, the current crown test strategy in Austria is increasing panic and is also greatly distorting the bigger picture. “Those people who feel ill with the corresponding symptoms should be examined and treated,” the club president FPÖ said in a broadcast on Sunday.

“As the number of tests continues to increase, so does the number of positive results, causing even more panic among the population and serving the black-green government as a justification for increasingly absurd measures,” says Kickl. However, a look at the numbers of those in hospital and intensive care unit treatment or those who died from or with the virus shows that the situation is currently not as worrying as feared due to the ” record values ​​”daily in positive tests. should.

“The government is publicly discussing whether people who have tested positive should be quarantined for five or ten days. At the same time, several federal states are complaining that they can no longer maintain ‘contact tracing’ due to the lack of capacity. Both problems would be solved if one when the tests were focused on the really sick, “argued Kickl.

The consequences of positive PCR tests in asymptomatic people who only have a low viral load are a thorn in the side of the FPÖ politician: “Entire families end up in quarantine, children cannot go to school, adults are excluded from working life and suffer as a consequence not infrequently also financial losses “.

Regarding the risk of contagion, Kickl referred to the influenza virus. “Imagine if two million flu tests had been performed each year. There we would have a numerical pandemic every winter that would have often exceeded the Crown,” he noted.