Saturday, November 13th, 2021
Are there any contact restrictions?
Lindner apologizes for corona statements
FDP boss Lindner does not consider exit and contact restrictions in the fight against Corona to be effective. At least that’s how he puts it in the ARD “Tagesthemen”. This causes outrage on Twitter. Now Linder is rowing back. Is it all just a misunderstanding?
The FDP chairman Christian Lindner has made it clear that he does not deny the effectiveness of contact restrictions for containing the corona pandemic. Previously, statements made by him on Friday evening in the ARD “Tagesthemen” were partly understood differently and met with outrage on the Internet.
On Saturday Lindner wrote on Twitter: “If I was misunderstood in the” Tagesthemen “, I regret it. Because I promote consistent and effective measures! I do not doubt contact restrictions, but only, for example, the proportionality of curfews for vaccinated people.
In the program, he was asked by presenter Ingo Zamperoni why, with the expiry of the legal status of the epidemic emergency of national scope, containment options such as exit or contact restrictions are being waived. “Because these measures are not effective according to scientific studies and because German courts have already rejected such exit restrictions,” Lindner replied. In response to Zamperoni’s incredulous questioning whether he really claims that contact restrictions and bans on going out are ineffective: “There are scientific studies on the effectiveness of exit restrictions, for example for vaccinated people, who do not curb the incidence of infection.”
On the Internet, he had been accused of ignoring scientific knowledge. Sometimes he was denied the ability to govern. The Göttingen physicist Viola Priesemann, who deals with corona issues, offered him via Twitter to provide clarification.