German
Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/21, pp. 1504-1505.
Right
honorable Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.
The proposals
put forward for a vaccination mandate are in various ways the product of a stubborn
obsession and an ignorant denial of the facts. With this absurd and
anachronistic debate, Germany once again stands forth as a European oddity.
Even our neighbors in Austria have for the meantime set aside the “vaccination
mandate” project.
The
vaccination mandate has been built on false asseverations of the data. That a
vaccination effectively defends another from infection and lessens the spread
of the virus is fake news. It is false! Even the Robert Koch Institute needs to
concede that. The promised protection against serious cases is in any event
questionable in view of the increasing portion of those vaccinated and
boostered in intensive care. A healthcare system endangered by an overburdening
of hospitals never existed, does not exist and does not threaten. That moreover
had to be unwillingly conceded by the Health Minister.
A vaccination
mandate is also not required to prevent lockdowns in the fall. Lockdowns are
prevented by the government not ordering them. It is simple as that. The
uselessness and harm of lockdowns should in the interim have been spoken of.
Yet the potential side-effects of mRNA and vector vaccines are on the other
hand far more serious and widespread than originally maintained. When will that
be actually spoken of in this house?
The arguments
for a vaccination mandate were from the beginning weak. And they have in the
meantime collapsed like a house of cards. There is no legitimate and
constitutionally permissible justification for the introduction of a vaccination
mandate against Covid-19, regardless whether as a vaccination mandate at 18, at
50, as a vaccination mandate in reserve, or as related to a facility. A general
vaccination mandate violates central basic rights: Human dignity, the right to
life and bodily inviolability and right to freedom of belief and conscious. The
standard of proportionality which would legitimate a serious encroachment of
this kind on the basic rights has not been given. The vaccination mandate has
not been adapted to attaining the goals strived for. It is also not required
since there are other and much more mild therapies and measures, and it is not
appropriate. The state is not permitted to endanger the life and health of one
citizen so as to protect other citizens.
The reasoning
that a vaccination mandate may be necessary so as to prevent an overburdening
of hospitals is not only false, it is dangerous. According to this pseudo-logic,
people in the future could be compelled to all possible treatments, from
obligatory medication for those threatened by high blood pressure, to forced
dieting for those overweight. For a rationale suffices a politically
manufactured capacity shortage. – I hope you yourselves note how absurd this
is.
The
vaccination mandate is an act of deprivation of rights. It degrades millions of
people from sovereign individuals, equipped with rights of freedom and
self-defense, to recipients of commands and objects of state arbitrariness. It
drives millions of people to conflicts of conscious and existential distress.
Right
honorable colleagues of the governing delegations and the Union who support one
of the vaccination mandate proposals put forward: You are riding a dead horse.
Please, dismount. Withdraw these bills and allow yourselves in common with us to
end as quickly as possible the wrong way of the vaccination mandate related to
nursing facilities. As quickly as possible!
Vice-president Katrin Göring-Eckardt: Frau colleague, come to a conclusion, please.
In these
difficult times we cannot afford, out of obduracy and obstinacy, to further
divide society with a vaccination mandate
Vice-president Katrin Göring-Eckardt: Frau colleague.
for which
there is no foundation, neither medical nor legal.
I am
grateful.
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