German Bundestag,
Plenarprotokoll 19/238, pp. 31501-31502.
Right
honorable Herr President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen. Dear
countrymen.
Near the end
of this special session, it is about the epidemic situation and Corona. The incidence
value throughout Germany climbs from 56 in the previous week to 60 in this
week. What evidentiary power and justification for the so-called epidemic
emergency situation do you then derive from that, worthy Federal government?
Let us come
to my home, Saxony. There, despite the lowest rate of vaccination, the
incidence is at 16.2. What or who is responsible for these numbers, Herr
Wanderwitz? The penchant for dictatorship with which you as commissioner for
the east characterize my countrymen in Saxony? Quite clearly it is not the
hapless policy of CDU Minister-president Michael Kretschmer.
Now, worthy
Federal cabinet, it so appears regarding you as if something like insight and
reason were to be noticed.
Stephan Brandner (AFD): What?
This appears
to be spreading in our Federal system – in this case, from the States to the Bund.
This, nevertheless, is late! As a first step in the direction of reason, you
now assume the number of the so-called hospitalizations as a benchmark. Finally,
one can only say. The demand to thereby orient yourselves was advanced by us
months ago, Herr Dobrindt.
Or could it
therein possibly be that we find ourselves in an election campaign and that you
with your CDU Chancellor candidate swim clear of the falls? We have, ja, today heard his limp [lasche] speech. And could it be, Herr
Lauterbach, that you, with your panic-making and angst production, want to
capture additional votes for the SPD? And just by the way, Frau Baerbock: Do
you think that with your freight bike you succeed in driving ahead of the
challenges in Germany? Your party thereby has conclusively contributed to that
our society stands before a heap of rubble which was once called skilled trades
and Mittelstand, German work ethic, Made
in Germany – in short, the social market economy.
Steffi Lemke (Greens): That is, ja, original!
Let me come
to the vaccination theme. The recently published Oxford study shows us: Completely
vaccinated persons can be infectious and the viral count is comparable with
that of the non-vaccinated. Can you comprehend that under the circumstances our
citizens make use of their right not to let themselves be vaccinated? The Alternative
für Deutschland insists that: A decision to vaccinate must remain the
individual decision of each citizen. Given the circumstances, we see no
necessity to further restrict basic rights, and reject an obligation to
vaccinate.
Alexander Krauß (CDU/CSU): Yet no
one demands that!
Worthy
colleagues, beyond that, as a father of a family I say to you: In a case of
Covid-19, no state vaccination obligation for children is permitted.
Alexander Krauß (CDU/CSU): Yet no one demands that!
Our children nevertheless
need be protected against the subsequent health consequences. That is the duty
of policy and politicians, Herr Dobrindt. Have all the self-named virologists
here in the Bundestag meanwhile lost respect for the future of the children in our
country? I ask you.
And there is
no end to the political influence. The experts of the STIKO [standing committee on vaccination] for long refused to speak
in favor of a Corona vaccination recommendation for all minors from twelve
years. Union politicians like Söder and Spahn did not want to leave it at that,
and ever again exercised pressure on the STIKO.
Consequently, un-Health Minister Spahn set aside the experts’ position and, on
August 2 with the States’ health ministers, decided on a so-called vaccination
offer for all minors from twelve years.
What comes
next? The citizens of our country shall soon be purchasing participation in
everyday life with the obligatory costs of testing. And that will again be at
the cost of the local economy and retail trade, to say nothing of culture. You
thereby further divide this country, Herr Dobrindt.
Worthy
Federal government, please finally for once work with our citizens in your
communications to de-escalate.
Alexander Dobrindt (CDU/CSU): Is that what you do when you speak of a “Corona dictatorship”?
Especially I
request of colleague Karl Lauterbach: Finally for once propagate courage and
confidence in our country instead of weekly conjuring up a new apocalypse. The AfD
delegation rejects a prolongation of the epidemic situation in Germany.
Many thanks.
[trans: tem]
