By Daniel Weinmann
There is no sign of a reappraisal of the Corona crisis in this country. Admissions such as “We sometimes put health above humanity” by French Corona Council head Jean-Francois Delfraissy are unthinkable in the “best Germany that ever existed.” Or initiatives like that of Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who made the lessons of the crisis a top priority and announced a “thorough analysis” including a survey of the population by the end of this year.
On the contrary, in April the Bundestag rejected a comprehensive investigation of the pandemic by 577 votes out of 736. In addition, according to research by the “Welt am Sonntag,” there are indications that institutions, authorities, members of parliament, and even the German president in political Berlin view coming to terms with the “pandemic” as a topic on which they could get their fingers burned.
Hendrik Streeck, at least one of the representatives of the German government’s Corona Expert Council, is self-critical. To date, the virologist has not apologized for his hostilities against Sucharit Bhakdi, a critic of the measures, which were publicly dressed up as a fact check. But he calls topics by the name, which would not come Germany supreme Corona explanation Christian Drosten or Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach even in the purgatory from the lips.
"This false promise has cost a great deal of trust in vaccines in general"
“One mistake that was made in the pandemic is that something was promised with the Corona vaccine that it can’t deliver and it hasn’t been tested for,” the director of the Institute of Virology at Bonn University Hospital told theFuldaer Zeitung newspaper. Even if the vaccines had protected in the first few months after vaccination, they had not shown this in the long-term. “This false promise has cost a lot of trust in vaccines in general,” the 46-year-old confesses.
He continued, “When you think about what was done and how the unvaccinated were treated, treated almost like lepers, it’s appalling.” By his own admission, Streeck thought so “back then,” but in retrospect, he said, he had to say, “We should have been much more vehement that we can’t treat other citizens of our country that way.”
Nevertheless, he sees a clear advantage of vaccination in older people. There was “no need to discuss that at all.” The adapted vaccines that are now on the market can also be expected to be effective, he said.
"The fact that we did not provide scientific support for certain processes was a cardinal error"
In terms of coming to terms with the past, he “really regrets that we don’t have a ‘lessons learned’ process in Germany, no real coming to terms with it.” For him, this is not least because there is a fear that there will now be a “reckoning”, that someone has been wrong here or there. “This is not about accusation at all, but we need to define what we should do better next time. You learn from mistakes. But in politics, people have just forgotten this culture of making mistakes.”
Here, too, one would like to see more strength of opinion. Because against the background of what has happened, a reckoning and an indictment are equally indispensable, at least in a functioning constitutional state.
After all, he considers it a “cardinal error” that certain processes have not been scientifically monitored – for example, in the question of the effectiveness of masks: “Here, the results from practice, from daily life, would be much more valuable than the results from the laboratory.”
Many questions without good answer
In an interview with the “Fuldaer Zeitung,” Streeck recalled that he had suggested on the program “Maischberger” that schools be left open in one place and closed in another – to then compare. “This was dismissed as human experimentation,” the physician looks back, “and so it went on and on. There was an activist response because people hoped to somehow get a handle on the virus.” And this had not been successful.
Despite some half-hearted argumentation – Streeck’s conclusion can be signed without reservation: “And so we end up with a lot of questions without really having a good answer.”
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