Robby Schlund, May 6, 2021, Long Covid

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/227, p. 28983.

Right honorable Frau President. Esteemed colleagues.

Who would have thought that politicians are able to make thoroughly reasonable proposals? And I do not mean your motions, which we are here discussing, but the physician and state councillor Christoph Hufeland of the 19^th Century. For he postulated: “Prophylaxis is better than healing!” What unites we of the AfD in spirit with him is that prophylaxis and prevention are to be definitively preferred to a protracted treatment of illnesses. We besides in this place presented this initiative already at the beginning of February of last year. In that regard, three pillars of an efficient pandemic management play an important role; namely, first, prevention, second, medical treatment and third, international research, for example, for a common vaccine.  

            Gabriele Katzmarek (SPD): Hear, hear!

Ladies and gentlemen, try just for once to get a grip on the pandemic and when you have done that, then we can willingly discuss the consequences and collateral damages, which for those affected really are very bad – yet which are already cared for in a very good healthcare system. Some of which was also here got underway.  

All the more so is it not to understand how so up to today the vaccine Sputnik V has not been permitted and how so our healthcare system has still not at all concerned itself with the second Russian vaccine, EpiVacCorona. Already at the beginning of April, it was communicated from Russian science that this vaccine is highly effective against all mutations, including the South African, and it is meanwhile also recognized that this has scarcely any side effects. It is also distinguished by that, following a Corona illness, distinctly fewer post-Corona symptoms would occur.

Now here I actually find something missing in your motions; for the people not only have a right to freedom of vaccination, but plainly also a right to free choice of vaccines and vaccine types. If you here brought in such efficient motions, you could again win back the shattered trust in the vaccination policy.

Yesterday for example, we were discussing the discharges at the Sana clinics. In this regard, it needs be asked whether some of those making motions have considered that by means of your ideas it will come directly to a further commercialization and capitalization in the hospital market. Therefore, allow me a citation – I cite with permission of the Frau President – from Dr. John Mandrola, cardiologist from America, and a sharp critic of a long Covid strategy, ending:

From the perspective of a hospital operator, long Covid offers an opportunity to                    increase market share and to earn money.

That this for you, dear FDP, presents no problem does not really, honestly said, surprise me.

           Harald Weinberg (Linke): Because it is imbecility!

Yet in regards the colleagues of the Linke, I have my misgivings. Since with so many leftist-market-liberal concerns, I can sometimes thoroughly understand your colleague, Frau Wagenknecht.

We agree to the transfer. Many thanks.

          Gabriele Katzmarek (SPD): Man, man, man!

 

 

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Robby Schlund, December 17, 2020, Covid Vaccination

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/202, pp. 25369-25370.

Right honorable Frau President. Worthy colleagues. Dear TV viewers.

I want first perhaps to just direct a couple of words to the colleagues and, after the experiences of the last weeks, simply ask for a hearing and not just the screaming and shouting and interjected nonsense

            Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus (FDP): The righteous say that!

or, perhaps to relieve emotions, the demolition of arrangements, like yesterday.

I want first to say to you: I am basically no vaccine opponent. I am however opposed to the mise-en-scène of the vaccine, which you already for weeks push forward and which certainly would be almost grotesque if it were not so sad.

Also to be criticized is that this draft law foresees primarily older patients or high-risk patients shall initially be vaccinated. We hold that, honestly said, to be completely false and not to the purpose, since in this group is to be calculated the strongest side-effects of the highly experimental mRNA vaccine.

            Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus (FDP): No way!

  Steffi Lemke (Greens): With what you are telling here, you already                                         again have lied!  I don’t believe it! Already spreading lies in the third                                     sentence!

System and pandemic relevant groups, for example medical staff, police, rescue forces, the Bundeswehr and care-givers, should naturally and absolutely voluntarily be vaccinated first, as just so our Federal government, which should set a healthy and good example. We will observe you in the coming weeks.

According to our AfD screening management, which we already in February and multiple times had presented here in plenary session, we demand as always the protection of at-risk groups with preventative measures like isolation, social distancing and FFP2 masks. Instead of unnecessarily vaccinating at-risk groups, who indeed have the most to contend with from the side-effects,  

            Kerbula Schulz-Asche (Greens): How do you then know that?

let us give preference to the system relevant groups already named by us.  

In addition, Germany’s vaccination readiness is massively deteriorating. Yet why is that?

Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus (FDP): Because of the nonsense that you here are spreading!

That is the decisive question here.  

            Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus (FDP): On account of your propaganda!

Because the people have lost trust in the Federal government and its heave-ho preventative measures.

            Steffi Lemke (Greens): Because you spread blatant lies!

Instead of a screening management, you here proclaim a so-called cluster management, which is not only insanely expensive – 5 billion euros per week! – but also dismantles our entire Mittelstand and ultimately has brought nothing other than a giant chaos.

Unfortunately, only 37 percent of the people still have trust in the policy and this draft law contributes nothing to winning back that trust. Exactly as little contributes a … mRNA vaccine, if not alternative is offered. What, for example, is with the Vektor vaccine or the Tot vaccine? A very good, long-term practical experience is here at hand and worldwide some is already permitted, for example in China,

            Kerbula Schulz-Asche (Greens): And in Russia?

or the two Russian vaccines

            Kerbula Schulz-Asche (Greens): In Russia, exactly!

Sputnik V and EpiVacCorona.

Michael Grosse-Brömer (CDU/CSU): Yes, exactly! Sputnik V as a solution to the vaccination strategy! Where do you live, actually? Start vaccinating and with yourself! A lot of fun with Sputnik!

How is the scientific cooperation doing here? Unfortunately, nothing to report. Anyhow, the whole will not dispel the smell that here it is only and alone about lobbying, and to that the FDP draft law makes no exception.

           Steffi Lemke (Greens): Then you can go to Russia and allow yourself to be                              vaccinated.

           Michael Grosse-Brömer (CDU/CSU): Nothing to lay hold of!

 

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