2023-05-04 20:01:05
Issue of Friday, May 5, 2023
Innsbruck (OTS) – The turquoise-green government gives the go-ahead for dealing with the corona pandemic. Society, science and politics are challenged. But the proverbial trenches are also part of the political game.
The government has taken a step back from “reconciliation” and is now talking regarding “processing”. One wants to learn from the experiences with Covid-19 in order not to repeat mistakes in the next pandemic.
There is no way around the processing. Not in medicine and health care. Not with the supply chains and the schools. Not when it comes to the question of how to reach people and get them to support unpleasant measures without excessively confronting them with coercive measures. Everything has to work together so that society can function even in a state of emergency.
This processing requires head, mind and science. Some things have already happened, much is missing. On the level of the intellect, however, common positions can be found.
The emotional and gut level is more difficult. Here are the real rifts that have opened up in the pandemic. Suddenly, political decisions and measures were no longer just factually right or wrong – one might argue regarding that. No, they were morally right or wrong. One no longer discussed, but made one’s own opinion absolute. Some marched once morest the measures, saw fundamental rights and freedom threatened – and forgot that it is precisely these fundamental rights that make their demonstrations possible in the first place. The others only spoke of scumbags and denied that the opponents of the measures were serious.
A lot would be gained if the “processing” might be used to find starting points for a common basis for discussion. However, the question of measures has long since become a political match. There Herbert Kickl and the Freedom Party – there the others. This makes it increasingly difficult to get closer. And where it is attempted, people are alienated – for example with the Corona Fund in Lower Austria, which is supposed to pay for damage, just as if someone had willfully caused it. In the Salzburg election campaign, too, the Freedom Party placarded the accusation of division. It will be interesting to see what the coalition negotiations will bring there.
The government wants to draw lessons from Covid for the next pandemics. Science can make a contribution to this with “processing”.
But the politicians have to fill in the political trenches. Then perhaps something like “reconciliation” might also be considered.
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