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Germany seeks a balance between relaxation and caution in the crown crisis. As of today, more is allowed in various federal states: shops, restaurants, and sports facilities are sometimes allowed to open under certain conditions. At the same time, the Robert Koch Institute reports an increasing number of replications of the virus, and five cities and counties exceeded the upper limit of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants agreed to by the federal and state governments.
“Is the coronavirus still controllable?”: On Sunday night, in “Anne Will”, the Prime Minister of the Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer (SPD) and the Vice-President of the Bundestag, Wolfgang Kubicki discussed. The FDP politician was not impressed by the contagion numbers, and did not hide his own ignorance. “I don’t know what to do with the R number of 1.1 or 1.13,” said the Bundestag vice president. He was not sure if the underlying data was plausible.
At the same time, Kubicki called for more personal responsibility: it was crucial that people take care of themselves, for their safety and health. “We have to focus more on personal responsibility,” said the FDP politician.
In addition, the lawyer assumed the supposed “massive restrictions on fundamental rights”, against which thousands protested on weekends. “Just because there is an outbreak in a nursing home in Rosenheim, I don’t have to close all the restaurants in Schleswig-Holstein,” says Kubicki. And: “If you are afraid, you should stay home.”
With his statement, Kubicki drew clear criticism. Bundestag CDU member Matthias Hauer, for example, wrote the following after the Twitter feed: “Uh-huh, then ignorance is the basis of a call for relaxation.”
Dealing with visiting rights in nursing homes temporarily became the focus of the show, with wide differences in focus. Kubicki said: “If someone is concerned about something happening in the nursing home, they simply should not visit their relatives, or vice versa.” Another area also worried him: “I also think it will help calm the nerves of many, many people if they can watch soccer games again at least on Saturday afternoon. The canned food from the last World Cup bothers me a lot.” “
Dreyer defends relaxation rate
Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Dreyer defended the federal policy of the federal government, which handed over responsibility for further relaxation to the federal states last week. Dreyer was not disturbed by the increasing number of views, which increased from 0.65 to 1.13 between Wednesday and Sunday, according to the Robert Koch Institute. Consequently, an infected person now infects an average of 1.13 other people.
“I don’t flinch on the weekend when the numbers are released. The weekend numbers are mostly wrong. I am confident the numbers in our state are low,” Dreyer said.
Apparently, he doesn’t think much about comprehensive testing either: “We have such a low number of cases. In testing, we’re pretty much at 0. We need a different strategy.” The Prime Minister asks that the environment be tested only in case of a positive infection. “If there isn’t a single case in the entire district, then you don’t have to prove them all. We have to focus.” Instead, he referred to shared responsibility, prudence, control and “extreme hygiene standards”.
“Very, very difficult situations”
Dreyer addressed the need for hygiene concepts and reported on his mother’s first visit there. The limited number of visits creates a “very, very difficult situation,” said the Prime Minister. “This is why we have to do everything possible to ensure that visitors can be visited, albeit in a limited way, but then regularly” to break the isolation of the elderly.
Former President of the German Ethics Council Peter Dabrock said visits should not depend on financial means. You need to make sure that “no matter what income they have, people will be able to visit relatives in nursing homes and that it is not about their wallet,” for example, because the necessary tests cannot be paid for, Dabrock said.
Regarding the protests over the weekend and the occasional misleading statement made by television chef Attila Hildmann, Dabrock said: “We have to think very aggressively about how we will approach it when such a raw beer has the potential to bring the extremes together.” Through expressions and events like this, her attitude toward the self-responsibility strategy had changed. It was necessary to ensure that citizens were not so susceptible to such misleading claims.
Scientist criticizes loosening
Physicist Viola Priesemann, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-organization, responded to politicians’ skepticism that the increasing number of replications of the virus was a direct result of the first relaxation on April 19 and 20. “Relaxation will now possibly increase this value again. And then you have to think very carefully about what you do with it,” said the scientist. He called for a long-term strategy for greater security in the economy and among citizens.
Priesemann said it would have been beneficial to maintain the crown measurements longer. A “very, very important tool” in the fight against spread is contact tracking, but this is much easier with low contagion values. The foci of infection could be identified more efficiently and with less testing, and further spread could be prevented. She said fighting the virus was a matter of “years instead of months.”
Ute Teichert, president of the Federal Association of Doctors of the Public Health Service, referred to the tense situation there. “We have very few staff in the health offices,” he added that these staff are poorly paid and have a problem with young people. “This is now evident in the acute crisis,” said the president. He appreciated the plans to support office bottlenecks with additional positions, but called for a permanent increase in capacity.
