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Tübingen Mayor Boris Palmer once again caused controversy over the ZDF program “Maybrit Illner” on Thursday night.
Palmer had recently received a lot of criticism when he said in a television interview: “We can save people in Germany who would be dead in six months anyway.” He explained his statement with concern for children at risk of poverty, especially in developing countries, whose lives are threatened by the economic consequences of confinement.
He reiterated this statement about ZDF – and quickly faced off: Helmholtz investigator Michael Meyer-Hermann criticized Palmer for this. The calculations showed that “most people who died of Corona would have had an average of nine years to live.”
Meyer-Herrmann was probably referring to a calculation made by the NDR, which had shown that each Covid-19 death had lost an average of nine years of life. This is in line with the results of a study by the University of Glasgow, which found based on data from patients from Wales, Scotland and Italy that, on average, eleven years of life had been lost to the dead.
Palmer brushed aside the argument with “I think it’s wrong.” Meyer-Herrmann only had answers that these are facts and not opinions.
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Palmer also complainedthat many critics of the drastic daily constraints in the coronavirus crisis are being ignored and sometimes slandered. This reminds him of the refugee crisis in 2015, when debates over the entry of hundreds of thousands of migrants stalled with a “moralizing lack of alternatives,” he said.
Meyer-Herrmann also contradicted this, saying that Germany could be proud of the flat course of the infection curve. The underused hospital beds only showed that everything had been done correctly. The fact that protests increase as relaxation takes effect is an example of the “prevention paradox”: if you have taken enough precautionary measures, you will have to hear later that the exaggerated situation does not materialize.
Palmer opposes Lauterbach
“The more we relax, the longer the easy oppression phase of the economy,” said Meyer-Hermann, who, together with his team at the Helmholtz Institute for Infection Research and the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, are preparing a study on the economic consequences of relaxation measures. Has.
Meyer-Hermann believes that people feel that the measures are directed against them: misunderstandings, in particular that people in livelihood need a world in which the virus has been so delayed that “we no longer have to be afraid “
Palmer also accused the virologist.they just wanted to reduce the number of people infected and would see no other medical and financial costs. “This is also unfair,” wrote health expert Karl Lauterbach on Twitter. Where you are right.
Finally, Palmer also went directly to the SPD politician, Lauterbach.. He accused him that all the people who did not follow his advice were responsible for the deaths of 100,000 people. “This is unfair and not true,” Lauterbach replied on Twitter. “I am, unlike him, against locking up sick and elderly people in the economy for years.” (with dpa)
