“Crown” check – distorted perception led to lockdown

Governor Wilfried Haslauer wanted to justify his hesitation in the past few days with allegedly stagnating numbers and contradicting experts.

Salzburg’s head of state Wilfried Haslauer has changed his assessment of the situation several times in the past few days and weeks, the “Krone” reported. The zigzag course especially confused the population. What was remarkable, however, was Thursday when Haslauer decided to lockdown. The reason was the enormously high number of new infections that day and that the country manager had observed stagnation in the days before. The fact is: If the laboratory capacity is overloaded, it is not possible to say exactly on any day how many cases there were actually. It was clear that the curve was pointing steeply upwards. But there is the 7-day incidence. Lockdown warnings since September at the latest. In a television interview in the evening, many viewers were stunned again. In a sensual way: Nobody would have supported a lockdown in July because there wasn’t a single intensive care patient. What is Haslauer trying to achieve with such absurd information? Why should there have been a lockdown in July? Nobody challenged him back then. Haslauer also referred several times to contradicting statements by scientists. They were in disagreement about the further course of the pandemic in the summer. That’s only true for midsummer. There were clear warnings by early September at the latest. When the lockdown was announced on Thursday, Haslauer referred to epidemiologist Gerald Gartlehner and complexity researcher Peter Klimek. The two experts actually said on August 12 that large-scale closings in the autumn were no longer necessary. The situation was already different on September 8th, however. Gartlehner said the antigen self-tests should not be considered as evidence of admission, the 2-G rule should come soon and, due to the low vaccination rate, a further lockdown cannot be ruled out. Vienna followed these recommendations at the beginning of October and is much better off today. In Salzburg, for example, the living room tests were valid until the end of October. There were already 15 patients in the intensive care units. It was too late for much less drastic measures.
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