The processing of the German pandemic policy is now arousing remorse in some politicians. Just two weeks ago, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) described the long closures of kindergartens and schools as a mistake. In a discussion program, the politician has now described some corona measures as “nonsense”.
“What was nonsense, if I may speak so frankly, these rules do exist,” said Lauterbach on Thursday evening in the ZDF program “Markus Lanz”. He was referring, for example, to the temporary ban on jogging without a mask. “Of course it is clear, there were excesses,” said the doctor, who has been Germany’s health minister since December 2021. The federal states would be massively overstimulated, especially Bavaria. The long daycare centers and school closures were also a mistake, Lauterbach repeated the statement he made at the end of January.
“Constant politicization” of the measures
Nevertheless, three years into the pandemic, Lauterbach’s balance sheet was generally positive. “We got through it okay.” Thanks to the cautious approach, mortality in Germany was lower than in other countries, despite the old population. So far, about 180,000 people have died in Germany as a result of a corona infection. “That’s not a bad number, but we would have done even better if it weren’t for this continued politicization of the measures,” he said.
Heribert Prantl, lawyer and commentator at the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, who was also a guest on the show, made a very different assessment: “This state, which is my state, which is our state, has never been more foreign to me than it was at this time. He was relentless and I sometimes found it scary how he performed.”
Source: Krone
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