Crown crisis: wave of protests after interview – virologist becomes Drosten’s “quota woman”

Virologist Sandra Ciesek gives an interview to “Spiegel”. And learn how Christian Drosten deals with the haters. A comment.

Sandra Ciesek is Professor of Virology and Director of the Institute for Medical Virology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Its main themes are also forms of therapy. Hepatitis C and drug investigation against COVID-19. Since September he plays with the Federal Cross of Merit Christian drosten the NDR-Corona podcast to inform stakeholders about new updates on the pandemic in a scientifically sound way.

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Reason enough for the “Spiegel” to interview the woman, after all Crown alongside the US elections and Donald Trump’s number one global problem. But Ciesek is not a man and his name is not even Drosten, so he has to put up with the following from his interviewers: “Professor Ciesek, since September you alternate with Christian Drosten every two weeks. NDR-Corona-Podcast ‘Coronavirus update’. You know you are the Quotenfrau They are?”

Strictly speaking, this is not a question, but a statement. According to the motto that you, the teacher, must be clear about what the journalists of “Spiegel” have verified for a long time. There “QuotenfrauNow that it is not necessarily a valuable predicate, the scientist necessarily changes it to the position of defender.

Coronavirus: Interview with virologist in “Spiegel”

On the other hand, she must and must not “hide”, as she herself emphasizes, since her position is definitely at the level of the “pop star” (“Spiegel”) Drosten. Or maybe not? Because also in the second question the scientific qualification of women is ignored. Ciesek is not just a quota, but also the “new kid on Drosten’s side.” The editors of “Spiegel” didn’t even come up with this themselves, but instead quoted from Springer’s “Bild” post.

Of the Drosten He’s a “really fun colleague,” the reader learns, and the head of the institute generally has no problem being “sort of like his manager.” Ok, would that have been cleared up, could it now be the content, or will a scientist continue to work on this?

“Your first podcast episodes rang out a little later Community college. Do you want it to be more exciting in the future? So Ciesek wasn’t exciting enough? Don’t have enough excitement? Too little hair on the chest? Don’t have enough black curls? To pressure a teacher at the adult education level who is not supposed to provide information about the fight of the giants of the underworld, but in the most understandable way possible about it. Coronavirus, is a degradation. And not because adult education centers generally have something derogatory. But because the adult education center suggests a semi-scientific quality in the context of a teacher’s lecture. We also know that it has to be as understandable as possible here, of course Drosten (and the “mirror”). Drosten is probably not linked to VHS yet.

Pottery or Virologist Course – In the Times of Corona

But it goes even further. What if Ciesek is attacked by listeners? A little tip from “Spiegel”: “Drosten likes to write a cheeky answer.” Wow, the cheeky gentleman DrostenTake an example, professor. But Drosten can’t help but play in his absence on a stage that was actually prepared for his colleague. But at first he was not allowed to enter because he had to eat all the topics for breakfast or simply the expert was not asked about the subject, but the focus was gender.

„Quotenfrau“- Why should I be a virologist? He could also have said, ‘a woman in Crown-Circus of men ‘or something similar. But translate qualification into quota? It triggers and is quite provocative. Then the partnership with the adult education center: That smells like hell Recorder and pottery course – but not according to virology. Isn’t it called framing when introducing yourself to an interlocutor, at least subtextually, less competent than her star male counterpart?

But what are we women upset about? We can work, we can choose, so everything is fine.