Harold Schmidt
The entertainer “no longer listens” to Lauterbach
In a new interview, Harald Schmidt talks about his vaccination status and Karl Lauterbach.
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Harald Schmidt believes that Karl Lauterbach is “right about everything”, but he is “not listening anymore”. And he talks about his vaccination status.
In the past few weeks, there has been speculation in many places about the possible vaccination status of Harald Schmidt (64). New statements by the entertainer suggest that this was intentional. On the remark that Schmidt recently managed to cause a stir with an interview in the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung”, the 64-year-old replies in an interview with “Spiegel”: “Yes, I was overjoyed. Also that the good old games still work.”
“You just say that I’m not vaccinated, and I’ll leave it at that,” Schmidt had previously told the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung”.. And further: “In the meantime I’ve thought about an Olaf Scholz formulation: ‘I’m on the right and sensible way to fulfill 2G.’ That leaves everything open.”
In the “Spiegel” he also leaves his vaccination status open when asked whether he is a “coronarebell”. However, he explains that nothing is more boring for him “than being a rebel. Of course I support all measures that are demanded. Because real chaos only arises by following orders.”
“I fulfill all certificate requests worldwide”
Schmidt also only partially complies with the request for a serious answer about his vaccination status: “I fulfill all certificate requests worldwide, even before they are even expressed, and always up to date. But as someone who is generally very secretive, I have to deal with you and not a chatterbox, keep my vaccination status to myself.”
“I’m absolutely not opposed to vaccination,” Schmidt said in the summer of 2021 explained in an interview with the editorial network Germany. He is “just not someone who is already in front of the door in the morning when the doctor opens at 8 a.m. so that he can be vaccinated at five to eight. For those who urgently need it, I like to let the altruist hang out: ‘Take mine Dose!'”
In the “Spiegel” interview, Schmidt is no less provocative when it comes to Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (58). He could well imagine that Lauterbach would come “around the corner again” in a situation in which Corona “can’t even be found in the dictionary”. Schmidt “doesn’t listen anymore because this Rhenish whining sound is getting on my nerves”. But then he puts this statement into perspective again: “But I think he’s right about everything.”