After two years of pandemic, the federal government is still struggling to find uniform solutions to the corona pandemic. Meanwhile – as reported – a quarantine is also being thought out loud, which led to heated debates on Friday evening. The controversial Viennese health councilor Peter Hacker (SPÖ) now goes a step further and sharply attacks the ailing green health minister.
“For the current health minister to dismiss the concerns of the World Health Organization and think aloud about a quarantine is just outrageous,” Hacker mutters on Facebook. Just this week, the WHO recommended further measures.
Hacker – as well as many other SPÖ politicians – is particularly angry that again “there is already a regulation (draft, note) on this, but it is only available to the states led by the ÖVP”. That is part of these “strange, political summer games that would be better off on the stages of Bregenz and Salzburg”. It’s unprofessional and annoying, Hacker says, “but I’m fine with that.”
“Who comes up with that?”
What the mighty red councilor can’t handle at all, though, is the part of the concept that talks about separate “Covid and non-Covid teams in the workplace”. As reported recently, infected people may only be allowed to work with infected people in the future. However, what hackers already dream in the land of dreams. He finds the plan to introduce such a thing ‘absurd and completely unworldly. Who thinks that? And how should that work in the supermarket or in the hospitals? Will there be a supermarket only for infected people?”
“These proposals are incompatible with responsible public health policies. And the fact that the Greens’ proposal to continue sending sick workers to work leaves me speechless,” Hacker concluded in his Facebook post.
The draft regulation hit like a bomb
Since the draft appeared on Thursday, a heated debate about the new Corona rules has flared up. The background is mainly staff shortages and declining popular support, forcing the government to reconsider. The quarantine seems to have had its day, instead there is a “traffic restriction” (ie only certain areas are blocked to infected people).
The dispute culminated on the night of today, when Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) posted some angry tweets on the subject.
Source: Krone
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