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After the pandemic, “Maybrit Illner” cannot be accused of being taken lightly. ZDF talk stays tuned. Since March, it comes to Corona two dozen times this year. However, Thursday’s broadcast: “How far will Germany fall?” – was one of the most successful.
There were several reasons. A growing irritation in the country made the leader of the Green Party, Robert Habeck. It’s hard not to see it that way. One reason was that it is simply necessary to deal with the recently decided contact restrictions.
Above all, it was good that it was a talk in the true sense of the format: a discussion took place in which not only positions were recited, but also reacted to each other. Knowledge arose through friction. And that was due to the construction of the show. For example, it was because Braunschweig virologist Melanie Brinkmann was invited who asked for this discussion to take place: with Andreas Gassen, director of the National Association of Health Insurance Physicians.
Gassen is one of the signatories of a position paper that was recently presented by him and virologists Hendrik Streeck and Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, among others. They reject a “general lockdown rule.” Instead of measures at the national level, they advocate a differentiated traffic light system. Instead of prohibitions, they are based on the commandments. Rather than monitoring the contact person by health authorities as a central strategy to combat pandemics, it is important that those who have tested positive inform their contacts themselves.
These are no longer hot spots, this is a forest fire
Brinkmann sat facing the alleys and took the opportunity to ask some direct questions without a gang. “There are only stupid ways out of this pandemic,” he said. But he does not see how exponential growth should be broken with Gassen’s proposals. Details of your concept “I would really like to have an explanation now.”
The concept then disintegrated into its individual parts piece by piece over the course of the program. Follow-up of contacts, for example: it is important, said Gassen, but due to the “large number” of cases, it can no longer be done “for the moment”, so it is necessary to rethink. Ute Teichert, president of the Federal Association of Physicians of the Public Health Service, vehemently contradicted him. Without contact tracing, “we would no longer have control of the pandemic.” She is “a good pound”. The measures now decided are there for the health authorities to do again.
Without contact tracing, there would be no data that the streets needed for their regional traffic light system, which he had in mind, but which she did not find useful: regional measures were currently “out of date.” The virus no longer spreads in individual access points, but rather as “wildfire.”
The Prime Minister already sees the country de facto in a closure
With Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU), there was another guest who defended the upcoming four-week restrictions, which he certainly helped negotiate, against criticism. In his opinion, they are “appropriate, proportionate and necessary,” he said. “The fact is: this is a lockdown.” Compared to neighboring countries, Germany is “still quite early”, so schools and kindergartens can be kept open.
Gassen was in a pretty bad position, but that didn’t affect the discussion. For example, there could hardly be a better explanation of the meaning of the contact tracker than in contrast to the suggestions in your article.
But that does not mean that they cannot be used in the coming months either. There was no contradiction with Gassen’s core demand – “we need a sustainable strategy” so that “after the shutdown” is not “before the shutdown” – there was no contradiction. Robert Habeck took it up again. “The key question,” he said, was, “How can we prevent it from happening again?”
Habeck doesn’t want to sound lazy
Habeck played the role of the opposition cautiously. He criticized that the reason for the renewed contact restrictions had not been sufficiently communicated. But he left concise announcements to responsible state and federal governments. It would be “a bit prudent” to claim that the Greens “knew better” and avoided the exponential increase in the crown number in recent weeks, he said. In summer, however, time was lost. And there are ways to contain the pandemic that have yet to be implemented. A distribution of the comparatively expensive FFP2 masks to risk groups, as they are also called in Gassen’s paper, could be at least one component of the additional strategy.
And so? “Hopefully,” Tobias Hans said, “the next four months will be the hardest of this pandemic.”
