Hendrik Streeck: After being appointed to the Corona team of experts, he experienced hatred on the Internet – domestic politics

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Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (63, SPD) has launched a Corona Expert Council that is due to start work this week. 19 specialists who observe and evaluate the development of the corona crisis in Germany – and who should provide the federal government with the right measures.

Noticeable here: the variety of subject areas and opinions!

Prof. Hendrik Streeck, chief virologist at the University of Bonn, is also part of the panel of experts. In the past, he had campaigned for a more moderate corona policy than many of his expert colleagues, and instead recommended better protection for old people’s and nursing homes.

Means: The traffic light government is less one-sided than the GroKo on Corona issues and obviously wants to bring experts with different opinions into conversation.

But many do not like that at all!

The hashtag #Streeck was trending on Twitter on Sunday – and the overwhelming majority of the speakers initially consisted of open hatred of the virologist.

“The man is really as stupid as most have already suspected,” writes a user about an interview excerpt in which Streeck explains why the ban on firing guns on New Year’s Eve, which was adopted at the last Prime Minister’s Conference, makes little epidemiological sense.

The “oath” belongs in jail. He is a “weak man”, a “hip flask” and bought his dissertation in the brothel. The hashtag #SterbenmitStreeck appears again.

A journalist – ZDF sports presenter Norbert König – also wedged against the virologist, calling him “the last” in a rhetorical question.

In the meantime he deleted his comment. König to BILD: “It was a private, thoughtless question that I now regret.” In response to a BILD request, ZDF said: “The tweet was not posted on a ZDF account. A private account was used. “

Many users insult Streeck obscenely and sometimes with homophobic abuse.

Striking: Among the mob there are also some who otherwise forbid any criticism of scientists. Apparently this only applies if they are of the same opinion as you …

The Leopoldina recently warned that scientists should be treated respectfully and also reprimanded an article by BILD. On the day after its publication, BILD had made it clear: “Criticism must be appropriately exercised. This also applies expressly to BILD. “

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