Nordrhein-Westfalen
Landtag, Plenarprotokoll 17/113, pp. 21-23.
Frau
President. Ladies and gentlemen.
‘The Policy’s
Broken Corona Promises”, “The Government’s Four Lockdown Fallacies”, “The Most
Absurd Merkel Paper of All Time” – that is only a small selection of the
headlines of past days.
Part of the
media now reckons with you and your stiff-necked, allegedly without alternative
lockdown policy. Your nonsensical lockdown reasoning says: We must arrive at an
incidence value of 50. – Concerning that, you know quite precisely, ladies and
gentlemen: That’s not right in winter. Herr Laschet, – he is not here – I
demand of you: Stand here at the microphone and explain to me, explain to the
people, how you in winter want to arrive at an incidence value of 50. – You
can’t.
If that shall
remain the basis of your policy, we will drift from one lockdown to the next
until the virus is rolled back quite alone by the better weather in the spring.
Until then, you crank up the printing press and mortgage the coming generations.
“An end to
that!” – not only the Green Oberbürgermeister Boris Palmer and we of the AfD
demand that, but also ever more professors and scientists. If the government
maintains a goal of incidence in the 50s, this lockdown will last many months.
That may be the wrong way; according to Palmer: “Enough now. We must live.”
At the
beginning of February, we must again take control.
With this
arbitrary incidence of 50, you are causing part-time employment, job loss and a
wave of insolvency. That will permanently change the economic structure of the
inner cities. Many of the small are not getting by, which means we get still
more chain concerns and still more concentration on quasi-monopolies like
Amazon & Co.
And: You are
cementing the debt situation. – As a party of the social market economy, we
cannot tolerate that. We also cannot tolerate that people suffer unnecessarily.
And they suffer from an existential fear. They suffer from loneliness. They
suffer from depressions. There are other illnesses, cancer or heart disease for
example, at which scarcely any of the policy people are looking. Where are the
exertions of policy? And there, where those over 80 years in the old-age homes
have actually died of Corona, you have failed, ladies and gentlemen.
All of this
divides our society. And the division deepens as every couple of weeks you tell
us what allegedly is uniquely correct. All who question that, each scientist or
doctor, is then allegedly a Covidiot or worse; like a, for example, Nazi. A
couple of weeks later, or only days later, is then again the opposite correct,
allegedly.
Now, it is
something new that I alone may meet my neighbor, yet not together with my wife,
whereas my neighbor may meet me and my wife. And if it goes according to the
SPD, this regulation shall then control even in dwellings. Yet at Aldi and on
the train, might we all of us then again in common meet. You apparently do not
quite follow this logic, ladies and gentlemen. I must admit to you: That goes
for me too.
The entirety
is almost as senseless as the 15 kilometer rule, which you, Herr Laschet, first
concluded with the Federal government, then next shoved off onto the localities
in NRW, only to then yesterday nevertheless introduce – the 15 kilometer rule.
Herr Laschet,
who should still take seriously such a policy? Who should here actually still
display trust?
Not only is
this rule not medically based – it is on that account constitutionally more
than doubtful – no, it will, like so many rules in a trust-destroying, whoa and
go proceeding, be driven to the wall. It shall then be for the citizen to
endure and perceive where you are lacking in insight.
Ladies and
gentlemen, that’s not right. That is not the policy of a statesman whom people
can trust. That is abysmal.
Yet it
happens that in the ranks of the oh-so-wise establishment politics are those,
scolded by everyone, who may see: The emperor has no clothes.
And in the
school policy. Federal Education Minister Anja Karliczek at the end of
September said, “A further general school closing is not under consideration.” Ah, ja.
And the FDP
school minister here has already advocated so many opinions on this that one
becomes dizzy. The FDP here moreover is a total loss, apart perhaps from Herr
Kubicki.
Yet one
citation: “I can say to you that with today’s understanding, no more
hairdressers would close, no more retail business would close. That will not
happen again.”
Federal
Health Minister Jens Spahn said that in September.
So much for
Jens Spahn’s judgment capacity. What a self-unmasking…
And the next:
“We are
ordering a four week therapy…If we now manage well in the communities, then we
have a good basis upon which to get through the winter. It is no perpetual
cycle, as per the motto: One month lockdown…and then again, and then again and
back…”
Bavaria’s
Minister-president Markus Söder said that at the proclamation of the lockdown
light on October 28.
Helmut Seifen (AfD): Who is a teller
of fairy tales!
It is just simply
wrong how Söder’s failures lead to an ever more grotesque self-radicalization
of the political showman. And here Kubicki is right when he says: “Gott schützen uns vor Markus Söder”,
ladies and gentlemen.
“New horror
numbers show the Federal government does not begin to have a grip on Corona.”
Thus claims
the “Bild”, after all actually close
to you.
Although
since November Germany is in lockdown, figured on the present number of
residents in this country, more people die of or with Corona than in most of the
EU states, and more than in Donald Trump’s U.S.A.
Ladies and
gentlemen, so often I would have preferred not to be right. You do not want to
hear, you allegedly always know better. For months, my colleague Dr. Vincent
and I again and again cite scientists and doctors with good arguments. In that
regard, you were defended only by your affiliated political-media complex.
Yet the last
days and weeks give hope. Since the reportage begins to turn and becomes more
differentiated, and it begins to inquire and ever more medical people have the
chance to say that they see quite differently what Drosten, Merkel and you,
Herr Laschet, hold to be the last word in wisdom.
For long I
have here in house – initially, relatively alone – with my delegation fought
for the clear and meaningful focusing on protection of the elderly and the ill,
and to which again and again experts – the experts to whom you do not wish to
listen, like professors Streeck, Schrappe. Kekulé of the Federal Association of
Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and the many medical central
organizations – have given a voice.
We now finally
have movement in the media. The unity opinion begins to waver. Moreover, at least
the “Welt”, and the “Bild” and yesterday “Hart aber Fair” now comply with what is
called a journalistic ethic. For long has the Fourth Estate – in part financed by
compulsion – understood itself not as a controller of government but instead as
its messenger.
Now however
may be read – quite along my course – :
“The epidemic
was unleashed by a virus, that is clear. Yet for the high numbers of deaths,
exclusive of the elderly and aged, the policy bears the responsibility.”
Ladies and
gentlemen, Professor of Medicine Matthias Schrappe, former vice chief of the
Federal government’s Experts Council for Health says that.
The government
has “against competent counsel decided for itself to only pursue lockdowns and
to relinquish targeted protective measures for the elderly.” – Thus, Professor
Schrappe. That has “crashingly failed”, the consequences being “catastrophic”,
a terrifying result. And he is not alone in that verdict.
The fact is:
In December, 86% of all Corona deaths came from care homes. In NRW also, over half
of the dead came from care homes. Nevertheless, the homes still – still – have too
few resources to consistently test co-workers and visitors.
You base the
stringent protective measures on the high number of Corona deaths. Yet there
where people actually die of or with Corona, your lockdown measures do not
function.
For reasons
of time, I unfortunately cannot go into the vaccine chaos. But it is a disgrace
for our country. Germany is behind – and in Germany, Nordrhein-Westfalen is
also in regards vaccination, again as so often, in the lower ranks – the oh-so-evil
Great Britain, U.S.A. and Israel.
The former
SPD Oberbürgermeister of Kiel wrote in the “Welt”
– I cite:
“The Chancellor
and her Minister for Health Jens Spahn from the beginning of the Corona crisis
have set for themselves a false, because unattainable, goal: They are fighting
the sheer number of infections. For that the basic rights of all citizens will
be limited, for that has parliamentary government itself been practically given
up, for that will firms be sacrificed which cuts off the development
possibilities of children, singles are sentenced to a quasi house arrest, and,
far outside, even the toboggan runs will be blocked by the police.”
Ladies and
gentlemen, when the police no longer hunt criminals but children on toboggans,
when no one no more knows where and with how many of his own family he may now visit,
then you are gambling away the trust of ever more people.
For almost a
year, the people overwhelmingly conduct themselves in exemplary fashion. Many have
worries as to how they shall pay their accounts and rents, worries of how to
care for and educate the children, worries concerning their grandparents.
Corona is an
imputation. Precisely on that account however may your policy be no further an
imputation. Our country can be better. But you must finally worry about that.
I thank you.
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