[ad_1]
Many people were allegedly infected with Corona on a pub crawl, and the American citizen should be severely punished, he said. The accusations and lawsuits were drastic, but the evidence for this was weak.
By Andrej Reisin, NDR and Patrick Gensing, tagesschau.de
Reports last weekend caused a sensation and concern: “A superpreader is celebrating,” was the headline. Bavarian broadcasting, at daily News It was called “Investigations Against the Superspreader”, and the “Bild” reported that “Garmisch-Partenkirchen is angry with the Superspreader.” In a video headline, the tabloid even spoke of a “potential killer.” The newspaper also gave the first name and the abbreviated surname, which may lead to their identification.
American was tested after the holidays
The background: a 26-year-old American woman who lives in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and returned from her vacation in Greece infected numerous people in the Bavarian town.
The woman works in a hotel for the US military and their families. The company was closed for two weeks on Monday after a total of 25 employees tested positive so far. According to the district office, the woman underwent a crown test on September 7 (Monday). So I should have gone to several bars on Tuesday. On Wednesday she finally received a positive test result. District administrator Anton Speer stressed that the woman “deliberately failed to comply with the quarantine.”
Exact quarantine order unknown
But even this information is controversial: When asked, the district office could not say whether the woman was told she had to stay home or if she was only advised to do so. Bavarian broadcasting reported. This is “currently difficult to understand for capacity reasons at test stations and offices.” Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, on the other hand, was convinced: “He was advised, he was recommended, he was told he had to go into quarantine,” Herrmann said Sunday. BR.
According to experts, it depends on the exact wording: “If a doctor has told the woman that it is unlikely or that she does not even know that she is infected, then she could say: she was confident that she was not infected.” , the station cited Munich medical attorney Andreas Spickhoff.
Drastic penalties are required
However, not only Herrmann, but also Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder demanded drastic sanctions: the “model case for irrationality” must “have consequences,” Söder said, calling for “correspondingly high fines.” In Bavaria, violations of quarantine requirements can result in a fine of 2,000 euros. Herrmann went even further and spoke of claims for damages. Finally, the Munich II prosecutor’s office launched investigations on Monday on suspicion of negligent bodily injury.
Three positives and no “bar crawls”
But little by little, more and more details of the case are raising questions: hundreds of people in Garmisch-Partenkirchen have followed the call of the authorities for a corona test. About 740 were tested over the weekend and another 300 were added on Monday. The result: three tests were positive. There is a 26-year-old connection for these three newly infected people: One person works at the restaurant the woman visited on Tuesday, two were guests at an Irish pub the week before.
It also emerged that the woman was by no means on a “pub crawl” on Tuesday night, as authorities, politicians and the media write to this day, but in a pub. Also, cigar bars, pubs and nightlife establishments cannot even open in Bavaria. Strictly speaking, localities are therefore restaurants. The woman visited another company In front your test – and with it In front a possible quarantine, such as the district office, which had initially shown women as the main source of many new infections, announced to the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”.
No infection is definitely attributable
Of the 32 new infections that were recorded on Friday, only one part was related to the 26-year-old. It is mainly about the infected in the hotel where the woman works. However: the district office cannot say in any way whether the woman infected her colleagues or simply became infected there herself. In any case, other new infections would not have had contact with the woman.
So far, no infection in Garmisch-Partenkirchen has been shown to be the result of the woman whom authorities, politics and the media have called a “super spreader” for days. In this context, the behavior of the district administrator and some media seems questionable, as they blame the behavior of a young woman for the increase in numbers of an entire district without evidence.
Hastily pointing out the blame
Even after a corona outbreak in Göttingen in early June, the alleged culprits were quickly found: “Large families” also from the “Iduna Zentrum” skyscraper complex. You should be responsible for the wave of infection. According to a message from the city, the infections were “associated with several major private celebrations.” Later, the city rises again: you search for evidence of a meeting at a shisha bar. Although the city later declared that there was no evidence of infection in the shisha bar, the story was already in the world. ARD Panorama magazine investigated the allegations; evidence of guilt remained scant.
After the corona outbreak at the Tönnies meat company, NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet also said in June that Romanians and Bulgarians had brought the virus. Shortly after, the CDU politician declared that it was forbidden to “blame people of any origin for the virus.” In July, Monitor reported that Tönnies employees in the Gütersloh district were mistakenly quarantined, due to positive corona tests or disease symptoms, which in many cases were nonexistent.
