German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/13,
pp. 825-826.
Right honorable Frau President. Valued ladies and gentlemen.
Our country stands on the threshold of an unexampled fall
from grace. The intention to introduce a general vaccination obligation against
the Corona virus is an attack on freedom and human dignity and on the basic
right to bodily inviolability.
The vaccination obligation is an authoritarian run-amok
against the foundation of our democratic and legal basic order. When the state
presumes to decide over the bodies of its citizens, that is an elementary breach
of civilization. It is a tragedy that we at all need to speak of it. There is
no justification for a Corona vaccination obligation, whether it be for all or
for specific groups of the population, neither medical, nor ethical, nor legal.
A vaccination obligation against an illness which presents
no life-endangering threat for more than 99 percent of the people, with a
vaccine which reliably protects neither from infection nor from transmission of
the antigen, is absurd. To require and to compel people to a vaccination is
therefore an unheard of overstepping of boundaries. The vaccination obligation
is unconstitutional and disproportionate.
There are other reasonable and purposeful ways to uphold
healthcare; for example, in which the health ministers in the Bund and States
do their job and provide for proper working conditions, decent pay and more
personnel in the clinics.
The vaccination obligation is also not enforceable. Of that
warn the panel doctors, of that warns the officials’ union, of that warns the
Gesamtmetall employers association. How do you want to actually compel millions
of citizens who do not want to let themselves be vaccinated? With fines and
coercive detention? How do you imagine that? Thus, our advice to you is: Do not
only listen to the pharmaceutical lobbyists but also listen to the
practitioners in this country!
Kathrin Vogler (Linke): You certainly know about pharmaceutical lobbyists!
Yet you also know that the vaccination obligation, the
forced vaccination, is wrong. Before the election you yourselves still spoke
quite otherwise, Herr Scholz and Herr Lindner. The vaccination obligation is
not least primarily a gigantic election fraud, a scandalous breach of trust. Of
that are we speaking here.
You cling to the vaccination obligation because you have got
yourselves stuck, stuck in a politics of paternalism and deprivation of rights.
Two years of rigid Corona policy built on false numbers, manipulated statistics
and contradictory asseverations have thoroughly squashed your credibility.
You have covered the country with crippling rules and
regulations and a Kafkaesque Corona bureaucracy which drive the citizens to
despair. Your attempt to introduce a de facto vaccination obligation by means
of senseless and arbitrary 2G and 3G rules has already deeply divided the
society.
Claudia
Moll (SPD): Nein, you divide!
Primarily children and youth suffer under the destruction of
their social environment which these rules and regulations inflict upon them.
There must be an end to this torment.
You have in this regard empowered an authority, the Robert
Koch Institute, to continue overnight and at discretion to curtail millions of
people in their rights with one-sided alterations of these rules. The citizens
rightly perceive as an insult that arbitrary decisions calculated in the
Bundestag, such as the limitation of the recovered status, should only apply
with mitigation. All men are equal, some are more equal – you have thereby in other
respects unintentionally and fully disclosed what you really make of the people
out there.
And now already is perceived that the vaccination obligation
railroaded by you ruins livelihoods in the area of medicine and nursing,
inflicts an occupation ban on engaged skilled labor and only intensifies the crisis
in this sector. Thus come out of your bunker mentality! Open the window! Look
at Europe, at what is happening here!
In England, little by little, the Corona restrictions fall
away; not despite of but on account of Omicron; the same in Denmark. In Spain,
the virus in the future will be treated just as a normal flu. In Czechia, the
planned vaccination obligation for elders and specific occupation groups is
again cashiered; it of course proved to be a flop.
And stop disparaging the citizens who in this great protest
movement in the history of our country express their opinion. Take this opinion
seriously and finally abolish these nonsensical and discriminatory rules, and
fully and thoroughly. Spare us the vaccination obligation, condemned to failure,
for hospitals and nursing homes. Right yourself, before it is too late! We beg
that of you.
We need to live with the virus. Freedom and
self-responsibility are the key. Each must be able to freely decide for himself
whether he wants to protect himself by means of a vaccination or in another art
and way. Therefore, for God’s sake, hands off the vaccination obligation!
I am grateful.
(Members of
the AfD rise.)
[trans: tem]
