Jörg Urban, January 8, 2021, Saxony and Corona

AfD Kompakt, January 8, 2021

Our thanks are also meant for the overburdened nursing staff in the hospitals and seniors homes. Nevertheless, the unctuous words of Social Minister Köpping must seem like mockery to the nurses. For years, the State government has economized to ruin the nursing area and itself generated the striking personnel scarcity.

Additionally, the government slumbered the entire summer and recruited no additional personnel. Untested nursing staff could for months spread the virus in the old-age homes. The many deaths amongst the high-risk groups is also on the account of the government. Now Minister-president Kretschmer threatens the citizens with “authoritarian measures”. The allegedly imprudent citizens are guilty of the failures of his Corona policy.  In that regard, a large daily newspaper has just recently listed “Kretschmer’s 5 Corona Failures” and issued him a bad testimonial.

The government’s gaveled policy inflicts any number of harms upon the economy, education and democracy. The AfD on the contrary is committed to intelligent and purposeful Corona preventative measures which primarily protect at-risk groups and allow more freedom to other citizens.

 

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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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Lars Patrick Berg, December 17, 2020, Egypt

European Parliament, Brussels, P9 CRE-PROV(2020)12-17(4-075-0000).

Frau President.

To come to the concrete themes with which we concern ourselves today. The leadership of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights has been set free. It appears that they have been dealt with at every point in time in accordance with Egyptian law. I therefore ask myself the more general question of wherein this parliament lies the antipathy against Egypt. Will a much more stringent standard be applied to Egypt than to other countries, or is a fundamental rejection of the Egyptian state put forward here? Egypt stands opposed to the extremism which threatens us all – an extremism which also endangers the Coptic community in Egypt.

While Turkey continues to attend to instability in the Near East and beyond, Egypt is to be counted as one of the few steadfast states which is in fact opposed to Turkish expansionism. Egypt plays a decisive role in Libya and there are Egyptian forces fighting the Syrian militias smuggled in from Turkey. The Islamist extremism, which sows death and destruction worldwide, has inflicted deep wounds, quite especially in Egypt. The Moslem Brotherhood nearly forced Egypt to its knees. The Egyptian state opposes itself to all of these menaces, while at the same time it drives forward progress in the areas of economy and education for its citizens, and it forms alliances with like-minded countries so as to attain somewhat more stability in the entire region.

Yet we here conduct endless discussions so as to be able to criticize Egypt. A judicial procedure is not enough for us. We encourage the opposition to the Egyptian government, a government which acts in our interest, in the interest of our security. And this uninterrupted criticism weighs upon our relations in Cairo and is quite clearly not in our interest. We on that account must think realistically and pragmatically. Egypt is exposed to serious threats to its security due to extremism – from within as from without.

It therefore matters to us all to constructively criticize Egypt – and according to different opinions – to accompany, instead of constantly rejecting.

 

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