MDR contribution from the Ore Mountains
Escalating corona situation: Senior woman weeps with anger and sadness – and speaks to many from the heart
The interview was conducted in a district in the Ore Mountains, an area in which the corona incidence had already exceeded the threshold of 2000 at this point in time
© Twitter Sven Knobloch, MDR
In the Erzgebirge district, the corona incidence value exceeded the threshold of 2000. When the MDR asked around on site, a woman summarized her shock and hit a nerve.
“Of course I’m worried. I’m double-vaccinated, waiting for my booster vaccination. My husband died of Corona. I was in the hospital. And now I’m staying away from my grandchildren because I’m afraid they’ll get out of the.” Bring something home to school. And now I’m going to the cemetery, “said a senior citizen, summarizing her situation in an interview with the MDR, which the journalist Sven Knobloch tweeted last Friday and which caused thousands of affected reactions from Twitter users.
About the responsibility for the again worsening situation, the interviewed woman in the MDR then continues: “What is happening here is so impossible. That shouldn’t be. If something had been done in the summer, it wouldn’t be half as good terrible.” She breaks down in tears afterwards. Her despair and powerlessness is palpable with each of her words and should also speak to many other people – by Monday the tweet had already been clicked 1.7 million times and liked almost 35,000 times – from the heart.
Despair and powerlessness
The interview was conducted in the Erzgebirgskreis – a district in which the corona incidence had exceeded the threshold of 2000 at this point in time. Due to the dramatic corona infection in the region, the town halls in Aue and Bad Schlema, for example, will largely remain closed this week. This applies for an indefinite period of time, as the city administration announced on Saturday. “We are a hotspot, we have to tighten the measures to curb the infection rate,” said a spokeswoman. Public traffic will also be stopped to protect employees, as in the second lockdown.
All offices of the major district town, which has around 23,000 inhabitants, can be reached by telephone and electronically during the usual service hours. “Presence appointments are only given for urgent and urgent matters,” it said. Access is only possible with an appointment and a 3G certificate.
Sources: Twitter /Sven Knobloch, DPA