Incorrect corona forecasts, warnings about the Omikron wave, the influence of scientists on politics – in an interview with BILD Live, ex-Family Minister Kristina Schröder (44, CDU) spoke plainly!
Schröder clearly criticized the highly exaggerated prognosis of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), which predicted at the beginning of December that shortly before Christmas more than 5700 corona patients would be in the intensive care units. Their belief in such predictions is dwindling “from forecast to forecast”, according to Schröder.
Because the occupancy of the intensive care beds actually reached its peak on December 10 with around 4900 corona patients. Since that day the value has fallen.
“The more alarmist and panicked the undertone, the less trust I have. Then I have the feeling that the agenda is to push the toughest possible measures through, “said the former Federal Minister at BILD Live. It struck her that “in Germany in particular we have a tendency towards particularly negative scenarios”.
Schröder was relieved that the federal government had not followed the RKI’s demands for even tougher measures. “A week ago, the Robert Koch Institute demanded a drastic, tough, immediate lockdown – including school closings in January, of course. Now we see: This hard lockdown did not come and yet the numbers are falling significantly, including the numbers in the intensive care units. “
Schröder also directly criticized the RKI President Lothar Wieler (60), who published a statement shortly before the Corona summit without first consulting with Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (58, SPD) – and thus for massive dissatisfaction with Lauterbach and even Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (63, SPD) provided.
The former family minister said about RKI President Wieler: “If a head of an authority for which I am responsible publishes political demands two or three hours before a decisive conference” without prior agreement, then “he would no longer have been the head of the authority with me”.
Schröder also called on the members of the German government’s scientific expert council to hold an open debate on how to deal with the omicron variant, which studies have shown often lead to significantly milder disease courses.
Schröder explained that the Expert Council includes some scientists “who have known themselves in the past as supporters of the radical no-Covid ideology”. The declared aim of the no-Covid movement was to minimize the number of infections as much as possible and, in the best case, to no longer allow corona infections.
Schröder warned of this at BILD Live: “I say: No-Covid is an attractive goal, but if it is to be realized we have to restrict people’s freedom of rights so massively over weeks, months, maybe even years.” That is why she considers No-Covid to be “an ultimately totalitarian ideology” .
Schröder called for scientists who had committed to the no-covid movement “to be open-minded to get involved in this international debate on Omikron’s chances”.
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