FPÖ rejects corona tests and mask requirement in schools – Coronavirus Vienna

“Open all schools to all children without exams and without a mask,” demanded social spokesperson Dagmar Belakowitsch at a press conference on Thursday. Instead, you must rely on distance rules, protective walls and movable air purifiers, said assisted education spokesman Hermann Brückl.

“Life in schools is a tragedy,” Brückl said. What is done to children with mandatory tests and mask requirement in terms of psychological stress, lack of sensitivity and for personal development is now unacceptable. “Not everyone can take it.” Many parents would also worry and tremble with the children before each test.

Basically the tests would only confirm what the FPÖ has been saying for months: “Schools are not the drivers of infection, children are not virus spreaders or super spreaders,” Brückl said. It is also a “scandal” that schools only accept tests that are taken directly at the school. In contrast, other agencies would not recognize school tests for a visit to the hairdresser.

Father Daniel Fränzl pointed out problems in the special schools. Your seven-year-old disabled son cannot do the nose exam himself. Based on experiences with your underlying illness, you also don’t accept being upset by strangers. The pediatrician had also confirmed this in writing, but the school did not accept that his son could do the test with him at home, where he felt safe.

“Why are there no individual solutions in special schools?” Belakovich also spoke of a “crime against the soul of children”: There are many children in special schools who have had dozens of hospitalizations and examinations: “With each test there is a retraumatization.”

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