The alleged suicide of a committed supporter of corona measures is not only agitating in Austria. He highlights the question of how life-threatening online hate can be. And it all started with just one post on Twitter.
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Ralph Wiegand
If you try to reconstruct why the Austrian Federal President, the German Federal Minister of Health or the former editor-in-chief of a tabloid newspaper publicly comment on the death of an Upper Austrian country doctor, you inevitably end up with a tweet from November 2021 that has long been deleted. In it, Dr. Lisa-Maria Kellermayr shared a video that showed opponents of vaccination on November 16, 2021 in front of the hospital in Wels-Grieskirchen. She wrote: “Today in Wels: A demonstration by conspiracy theorists leaves the path under the eyes of the authorities and blocks both the main entrance to the clinic and the Red Cross rescue exit.”