The city of Vienna is under fire, but can also shoot back with its city councilor for health, Peter Hacker. He was a guest in the “ZiB2”.
If there’s anyone who doesn’t mince his words, it’s Vienna’s City Councilor for Health, Peter Hacker. He therefore makes no secret of what he thinks of the current ideas of the federal government. Most of them are not entirely clear to him, especially because there was no agreement with the federal states – the new measures were simply presented that way.
The government was “making an infection lottery out of the vaccination fleet,” the politician was annoyed. “I don’t think we should jump out of a moving car at top speed.” He would also like to keep the free tests, as they have detected tens of thousands of infections prematurely. When asked about criticism from the ÖVP, he said dryly in the “Puls24” interview: “I stopped questioning Minister Köstinger’s motivations a long time ago.”
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So there is obviously a need for discussion – especially because Vienna is once again going its own way, refusing to relax to 3G in the catering industry and sticking with 2G. On Thursday evening he was a guest with Martin Thür in “ZiB2”.
You will be billed at the end
“The question isn’t if, the question is when,” Hacker said at the outset. The slight decline is probably only due to the current semester break. Interventions still have to be postponed on the normal wards, the staff shortages are enormous. It will probably go down in March, but you should “only get out of the car when it’s standing”.
“We’re not spoilsports, it’s about the framework.”
The city council does not accept that the incidence in Vienna was at times higher than the national average despite the many tests. “Waves are always settled at the end.”
In the tests, Peter Hacker finally wants transparency in the costs. Because of course that is expensive, but Vienna would only be responsible for 30 percent of the costs for 70 percent of the tests. You should keep the infrastructure now, because otherwise you’ll be back to zero in the fall.