Five years after Covid – Mikl -Leitner: “Having courage to name mistakes”

Do you still remember it? On April 14, five years ago, after violent criticism, the federal gardens in Vienna were finally opened again – because they were also closed in the Lockdown.

Were the strict measures a mistake? A reconsideration has taken place with some politicians. “The closure of the federal gardens was one of the many measures in the pandemic control, which one must then become exaggerated and incorrect,” emphasizes the Lower Austrian center Johanna Mikl-Leitner.

On April 14, five years ago, the first gradual Loses started: small shops and hardware stores can open, but masking in shops and public transport. Access restrictions for family members or life partners are relaxed. As is known, the Lockdown in the spring of 2020.

Mikl-Leitner gives mistakes
From the point of view of Mikl-Leitner, a few errors happened in the pandemic: “The school closures, the obligation to vaccinate and lock individual districts in the Lager Austria was certainly one of the major mistakes in the Pandemic Coping. In retrospect, you also have to have the courage to say where errors have happened.” The governor of Lower Austria wants to fill the trenches that are torn open.

“We are very open to ourselves in the lower Austria and without blinking with the subject. I think this is necessary, because Pandemie has torn deep trenches open. Through society and also through the families and partly those to this day, also because certain groups consciously retain the anger because it uses their political goals.

But Mikl-Leitner warns that everything is talking badly about it. According to the governor, one must recognize in all errors, but also acknowledge that “superhuman” was done in the health sector. Because “just like the vaccination was a mistake, it was of course also wrong to explain that it was a runny nose that you would have had under control with horse unrest and rinsing.” A top direction FPö -Baas Herbert Kickl, who had no doubt in Pandemie about the unrest of the horse as a treatment method for COVID. Mikl’s goal is “to learn from the mistakes of then to do better in the next crisis.”

World Health Organization has been agreed on a pandemic contract
The WHO agreed on Saturday with a pandemic contract. Negotiations were done for three years. The contract is intended to create clear rules for prevention, precaution and reaction and therefore to prevent chaos such as in Corona Pandemie. Among other things, he must ensure that people around the world get a quickly protective material and vaccines in a similar situation. It will now be interesting to see if Austria is rating the contract.