Lukas Podolski
Joshua Kimmich as a “felon” in the pillory
Lukas Podolski supports Joshua Kimmich.
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Lukas Podolski has now also commented on the vaccination debate surrounding Joshua Kimmich. He is treated like a “felon”.
The fact that professional footballer Joshua Kimmich (26) has not yet been vaccinated against the corona virus has caused a lot of discussion in the past few days. Now the former international Lukas Podolski (36) spoke up and defended Kimmich “Image on Sunday”. To “pillory” him for this reason and to pretend to have “caught a felon” is an exaggeration.
He emphasized once again that there is no compulsory vaccination in Germany: “As Joshua Kimmich – or any other player – you have the right to say: I don’t want to be vaccinated yet.” At the same time, he admitted that Kimmich’s commitment to the WeKickCorona initiative “was a hit for the media [sei]to then say: You promote a vaccine and then you don’t use it yourself. “
That said Angela Merkel
Most recently, the outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel (67) had also commented on Causa Kimmich. Against his argument that there are still concerns due to a lack of “long-term studies”, there are “very good factual arguments that are generally available,” said Merkel. “Maybe Joshua Kimmich is still thinking about it. He is known as a very reflective footballer.”