2024-09-24 10:16:04
Everyone is in favor of coming to terms with the pandemic in order to learn from it for the next one – independently and proactively. However, opinions differ significantly on what this should look like and how it should be completed. After all, many people have had the desired result in one or even hope for a pillow. Those who criticize the restrictions or the vaccination campaign are the first in the public; How tens or hundreds of people could have been effectively protected from Long Covid or death is rarely discussed.
Whether there will be a system review, and if so how and when, remains entirely open. When Olaf Scholz is elected President at the end of 2021, there will probably be no great opportunity to address these questions in the street lighting unions, or in the Union, which, as a new opposition, should have looked keenly at its time in government. “We (…) are drawing lessons from the pandemic, which has shown us the weakness of our health system,” the joint statement said.
Lauterbach probably did not use pluralis majestatis
But in order to learn, one should first understand what is right. At irregular intervals, the Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach admits individual mistakes: at the beginning of 2023, the end of closed schools, at the end of last week he said about intensive care: “We made a mistake then we think we’ll just put a few more beds in there and If you buy ventilators, you’ve got an extra, new, intensive care bed that’s already working.”
But who would have thought that? Already during the discussion about buying breathing machines, the lack of nursing staff to operate them was a topic that was discussed a lot. Lauterbach hardly means “we” as pluralis majestatis, but rather refers only to others;
Such self-righteous criticism, which followed a Federal Audit Office report on the lack of pandemic preparedness, is unlikely to appease the radical outcry. Congress has lost the opportunity to deal with a complex process at the right time. According to the leader of the Green party Britta Haßelmann, the decision should be made by the end of this week.
What is encouraging is that AfD and BSW may otherwise use the term even more after the election. But troubleshooting the malfunction doesn’t help the case.
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