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Germany’s top crisis manager at Corona’s query hour!
Health Minister Jens Spahn (40, CDU) addressed citizens’ concerns Sunday night at the BILD “The Right Questions” talk. Spahn on …
► … reduced contacts:
● “That is resignation, but resignation that is necessary to make life difficult for this virus. The banal thing about this virus is that it spreads where people gather. “
► … the rules of the crown:
● “The best hygiene concept does not reduce the risk to zero. For example, in a restaurant: if there are two or three infected people in the room without even knowing it, if everyone talks for three or four hours, then it just spreads.
● “The AHA rules do not reduce that risk to zero, but the AHA rules greatly reduce it.”
► … relaxation of the rules:
● “I don’t yet see that we have bigger events again this winter. And by bigger I don’t mean 500. The conclusion of the last few weeks is: it is sensible not to have any events with 10, 15 or 20 people for many weeks, if not months, if they do.
● “It’s a pretty challenging time right now. I think postponing a celebration is a relatively mild interference with my freedom. “
► … risk groups in Germany:
● “Germany is the second oldest country in the world after Japan. We have 23 million Germans over 60 years old. We are a rich country, diseases of civilization: diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity. All risk factors for this virus, as well as for many infectious diseases. If you follow the definition, 30 to 40 percent of the population is at risk. “
► … the vaccine:
● “We are calculating and planning to do so early next year. But there can also be a setback. Until Germany is really fully vaccinated, with everyone who wants to, we do voluntary vaccinations, it will certainly take months. “
● “There will be mobile teams that will vaccinate in hospitals or even in nursing homes. We can only set concrete priorities when we know more about the vaccine. “
► … the number of intensive care patients:
● “If about two percent of the 20,000 newly infected people have to go to intensive care in one day, that’s 400 a day. If the intensive care treatment and support last an average of 15 days, that is, 6000. We will reach this number of 6,000 intensive care patients who must be treated in Germany by Covic-19. 6000 intensive care patients, the health service can handle that, but already under a lot of stress in terms of staff, in terms of workload. It is also a physical burden for those who do it. If intensive care medicine is too full, cluttered, overloaded, then it is too late! “
► … Chain of infection:
● “With viral diseases transmitted in this way, the debate about guilt starts very quickly.”
● “Not all of us do it for the government, we do it for ourselves. This is now a century-old situation and some things don’t work as we were used to. “
► … your corona infection
● “It is different to deal politically with a virus like this for ten months, to deal with it organizationally or to have it yourself.”
● “In the end, it’s not about me. We are in the middle of a pandemic and it is not about the welfare of the health minister. The virus makes no difference, it can affect anyone. “
► … hamster shopping:
● “I don’t think there is now a basic right to kitchen rolls. But it is more the expression of something else and it is again about solidarity and that it is not only about oneself. “
► … the question of whether schools and nurseries remain open:
● “Our goal is for day care centers and schools to be able to stay in operation for as long as possible, ideally continuously. But if you ask me if I can promise you that, my answer is: No, I can’t. “
● “At the same time, the following also applies: the more infections there are overall, the more often an educator, parent, teacher or student becomes infected.”
► … your crown feeling:
● “I am still confident. We already did it in spring and now we will do it in fall and winter as well. “
►… die Corona-Demos:
● “This is not an easy situation for the authorities, as they proceed in a proportionate manner. Do you want to hit a water cannon now because people are not wearing the mask? Imagine that you are the responsible person who decides that. Yes, the mask is annoying. I would have preferred not to have to use them more often. Sure, I’d rather go to the restaurant without a mask, to the Bundestag without a mask. But the question is: is it really such a burden that you have to react with such aggressiveness and this reproach, this relentlessness? I am very concerned about what is happening at the moment. And that is why I try again and again to seek conversation and understand each other. What is it that makes a question like ‘wearing a mask’, annoying as I said, but actually quite harmless, suddenly become so aggressive? “
►… the result of the elections in the United States:
● “Something is happening in the country! Why else does Donald Trump have 70 million votes? “
● “That’s something we’ve been seeing for years. This growing divide in the US where in the end a result is not accepted because it is not what you wanted it to be. When it starts, and especially when it continues to grow: then in the end you hold on, and that’s what we see in parts of the US, then you no longer hold a society together. And then things go further and further. And that’s the big task now for the new president Joe Biden and his vice president Harris, to bring it together again and create it again. “
