After Biden’s speech: CDU criticizes Lauterbach |
“Get out of the tunnel of fear!”
US President Joe Biden (79) draws the line!
“The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with Corona. We’re still working a lot on it, but the pandemic is over,” he said Sunday night on CBS’ 60 Minutes show.
Since then, the Biden statement has caused a sensation worldwide! BUT: How does the federal government feel regarding the American President’s Corona line? BILD wanted to know from Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (59, SPD): Does Germany’s top Corona Minister also consider the pandemic to be over?
Lauterbach rates the Corona situation COMPLETELY differently! When asked by BILD, a ministry spokesman said: “Like the expert council, the federal government is still expecting a moderate wave in the fall. It can still be dangerous, especially for unvaccinated and vulnerable groups.”
That means: Lauterbach’s Ministry of Health does NOT consider the pandemic to be over!
That is why the ministry is calling on the population to “check their vaccination status” and, with the Infection Protection Act, has “created an instrument” to comply with “nationwide precautionary measures” and to enable countries to take further measures.
On the other hand, they do not want to comment on Biden himself: “We do not have to evaluate the corona policies of other countries.”
With the Biden sentence, the USA swings in line with France. The final rules there fell at the end of August and the expert council was dissolved. Its boss Jean-François Delfraissy admitted self-critically: “We sometimes put health above humanity.” And: “We should have talked to the citizens regarding momentous decisions for schools and old people’s homes.”
CDU: German way “less and less understandable”
The fact that Germany remains in pandemic mode is a source of clear criticism from the opposition!
︎ CDU health politician Erwin Rüddel (66) said to BILD: “The world is practicing normality and can understand our path less and less.” Lauterbach isolates Germany. “The chancellor must make use of his directive authority.”
︎ Tino Sorge (47, CDU), health policy spokesman for the Union in the Bundestag, calls for a quick rethink: “With all due caution: the state of emergency must not become permanent.” He demands: “Get out of the tunnel of fear!”
CDU health expert Tino Sorge criticizes Lauterbach
And what does Germany’s disease control authority, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) say?
When asked by BILD, the RKI refers to the WHO: “The declaration as a pandemic was made by the World Health Organization. In the case of swine flu, the WHO also announced the end of the pandemic. ”
BILD asked: Is the pandemic now becoming an endemic, is the global pandemic over? The WHO refers to its director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (57). He said last week: “We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic. We’re not there yet, but the end is in sight.”
Will the end of the pandemic be declared at the next meeting of the emergency committee in October? The WHO said they did not want to speculate regarding this.