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“Austria will cope with this. Together,” says the head of state in the short speech to be broadcast on ORF that night. He also calls for more serenity to face the crisis and warns of “timely, understandable and understandable communication.”
“This pandemic is really getting on our nerves. It’s a burden on all of us,” says Van der Bellen. It directly attacks the basic human need for security, closeness and community. He also missed the usual meetings with the public at the Hofburg on the national holiday. “But are we going to let that get us down? No, of course not.”
“Anger and fear are bad advisers”
The federal president asks us not to look for mutually guilty parties, but to fight the pandemic with science, reason and compassion. “This virus is neither red nor blue, nor turquoise, green or pink,” Van der Bellen said. You can only control it with “fact-based action” and “timely, understandable and traceable communication.”
Van der Bellen, therefore, urges the population to abide by the rules of the crown and turn their impatience into something positive. “Anger and fear are bad advisers. They cloud our thinking and lead our actions in the wrong direction. What if we let anger be?”
He himself is confident that Europe will unite again after initial difficulties. Van der Bellen hopes that the European Union’s € 750 billion investment package will be the basis for allowing the continent to flourish again. And on the national holiday a year from now, “I hope the worst is behind us.”
