Thursday, August 5th, 2021
Kubicki with Markus Lanz
“Why protect the unvaccinated from the unvaccinated?”
By Marko Schlichting
The incidence value slowly but steadily screwed up again. You have to “do everything” to get more people vaccinated, says Wolfgang Kubicki at Markus Lanz. However, he expressly does not mean restrictions for unvaccinated people. Here the FDP vice-chief sees the rule of law in danger.
The FDP Vice Chairman and Bundestag Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki has spoken out against compulsory vaccination. At Markus Lanz on ZDF, Kubicki said on Wednesday evening: “I don’t understand why vaccinated people are so afraid and want to protect non-vaccinated people from non-vaccinated people; they’ll do that themselves in an emergency.” Kubicki relies on conviction instead of coercion. “We have to do everything we can to get people vaccinated,” said the FDP politician. That is why he proposes, for example, the opening of discos. Before that, vaccination teams would have to stand and make visitors a vaccination offer. In addition, vaccination teams should be used more where people have not yet been vaccinated due to linguistic or religious barriers. “We achieve more with conviction than with force.”
“Compulsory vaccination through the back door”
At the same time, Kubicki complains that the state wants to introduce “mandatory vaccination through the back door”. He is reacting to the announcement by the federal government that unvaccinated people will have to accept restrictions on their quality of life in the future. “The task of the state is not to avoid contagion, but to prevent the health system from being overloaded,” says Kubicki, whose book “The crushed freedom: How a virus cancels our rule of law” has just been published. Denying unvaccinated and untested people visits to restaurants or football stadiums, there is no legal basis for this, says Kubicki. However, he points out that restaurant owners, for example, may not allow unvaccinated people to visit their facility.
By the way, Kubicki had himself vaccinated, he says at Lanz. “I have a right not to get sick and not to die.”
Citizens shouldn’t pay for tests themselves
In addition, Kubicki speaks out against the German government’s plan to make citizens pay for tests themselves from October. The course of corona diseases is no longer as difficult as at the beginning of the crisis. Because of this, people could refuse tests if they had to pay for them. That could falsify the incidence value, said the FDP vice-president.
In addition to Corona, the approaching federal election is also an issue at Lanz. After the elections, the FDP will belong to a government coalition. Kubicki is certain of that. And then FDP boss Lindner would have to become finance minister, says Kubicki. He is the better choice than, for example, Robert Habeck from the Greens, who is also aiming for this office. “Habeck is a mercilessly good writer, but we don’t need any writers in the Ministry of Finance,” says Kubicki, who is silent about his own ambitions for a ministerial post.
What can we expect from the FDP in a government? In any case, no increase in the tax level, emphasizes the party vice. However, he can envision a shift in certain taxes. But it is important that the individual tax burden does not increase, says Kubicki.
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