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Fingers were faster than head: Marco Kiefer, a local FDP politician from the city of Zurich, unleashed a storm of outrage with a critical tweet about Corona’s measures taken by the authorities over the weekend.
The world has “too many overweight people, too many sick people, too many people with weak immune systems, too many very old people,” wrote Kiefer, who is a member of a district school authority. “Corona is cleaning it now.” And he asked the question in the room, “Is it really that bad, and do we have to fool them all ‘sane’ and keep them alive?”
As reported by “20 Minuten”, Kiefer quickly deleted the message due to backlash and apologized the next day for the “inhumane tweet.” “I don’t want to be part of the problem, but also to help solve the pandemic,” he writes. He declined to comment on “20 Minutes.” VIEW couldn’t reach it. Since then, Kiefer has deleted his account.
Insight looks different
In light of his subsequent remarks, some doubts arise about how sorry the local politician really is, or whether he wanted to stop the shit storm with his apology. So the FDPler adds to his apology that after nine months of pandemic everyone has “become a bit fragile and aggressive.” He does not explain the reason for his slip, but seeks to blame others who reacted to his tweet.
In addition, Kiefer writes that he hopes the “persecution” of him will stop and the screenshots of his tweet will be removed.
FDP has started procedures
However, the matter does not eat so quickly. The tweet violates the core values of the party, ”said Severin Pflüger (42), chairman of the Zürich City FDP, saying“ 20 minutes ”. The party leadership asked Kiefer to step down and leave the party, he said when asked by VIEW. “I assume it will.”
The criticized FDP man is not for the first time publicly very critical of the crown policy of the federal government and the cantons, and also questions whether it is worth protecting the lives of older people by all means. At the end of the year he wrote that he would never have believed it possible that “for a little more than 500 deaths” under the age of 70, all economic sectors were “reduced to rubble”. He did not mention the 5,824 deaths over the age of 70 that Switzerland had to mourn at that time. (lha)
