Sunday April 4th 2021
More freedom for the immune system?
Encouragement and criticism after Spahn’s vaccination initiative
While the vaccination progress remains subdued, Health Minister Spahn brings more freedom for vaccinated people into play. He receives support from political partners and opponents – but criticism comes from the AfD. Patient protection officer Brysch also points out unanswered questions.
Health Minister Jens Spahn’s announcement that vaccinated people would be given more freedom, for example when shopping, triggered divided reactions. “Of course, if the scientific data confirm the harmlessness, those who have been vaccinated must be able to claim all rights again,” said Left parliamentary group leader Dietmar Bartsch to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
The SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach supports Spahn’s suggestion, “because it has been shown that people who have been vaccinated are rarely infected and that they are probably no longer contagious to others if they are infected.” However, this should only apply after the second vaccination, Lauterbach told the editorial network Germany (RND).
The parliamentary manager of the FDP parliamentary group, Marco Buschmann, wrote down Twitter: “If it is certain that a person poses no danger to himself or to others, then the state has no right to restrict his freedom.” If Spahn and Lauterbach saw it that way, then it would be “a nice Easter revelation”.
AfD fears stigmatization of vaccination opponents
AfD parliamentary group leader Alice Weidel, on the other hand, criticized what is being sold as “more freedom for those who have been vaccinated” is nothing more than stigmatizing those who have not yet been vaccinated or who do not want to be vaccinated. There should be no compulsory vaccination through the back door. The AfD demand that all restrictions on fundamental rights be lifted immediately for all citizens.
Spahn had promised freedoms for fully vaccinated people after the third corona wave. “Anyone who is vaccinated can go to the shop or the hairdresser without further testing. In addition, according to the RKI, those who are fully vaccinated no longer need to be in quarantine,” said the minister of “Bild am Sonntag”.
The chairman of the German Foundation for Patient Protection, Eugen Brysch, complained that Spahn did not say at which incidence value the third wave was over. It is also unclear how vaccinated people should identify themselves in the future. “The Easter message of the Federal Minister of Health of more freedoms quickly dissolves in smoke if you look closely,” said Brysch.
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