Minister of Justice Buschmann defends new corona protection concept
“The state didn’t manage it and the citizen has to suffer again”
“The FDP is throwing its liberal values overboard,” says WELT chief reporter Anna Schneider on the traffic light’s new infection protection law. For the third year in a row, the same problems are being discussed and in the end the state blames its failure on the individual.
“I would prefer that we no longer need any measures at all,” says Justice Minister Marco Buschmann (FDP). However, he vehemently defended the agreements reached.
Bundesjustizminister Marco Buschmann has defended the proposed corona protection concept for autumn and winter with possible mask requirements indoors. “I would prefer if we didn’t need any more measures at all,” said the FDP politician “Picture on Sunday”. “However, many scientists – including critical ones – assume that the health system will be under a great deal of stress.” “Therefore we want to work with the mildest means. This is the mask.”
Buschmann and Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) presented the concept on Wednesday. Your draft for the Infection Protection Act provides that the federal states may again impose mask requirements from October. A mask requirement on buses, trains and planes should therefore continue to apply nationwide, as well as a new mask and test requirement in hospitals and care facilities. The federal states should decide for themselves whether they also require masks in publicly accessible indoor areas.
There is a lot of criticism of the plan to exempt people from wearing masks in restaurants or at cultural and sporting events if their vaccination is not older than three months. In addition, there should be exceptions for tested and newly recovered people.
“The exceptions to the mask requirement indoors are intended to give operators more leeway for entrepreneurial responsibility,” emphasized Buschmann. “An operator can, for example, organize an indoor public viewing for the World Cup and only let in visitors with tests, so that there is normality at the event without a mask with a very low risk. Because the domiciliary rights of every operator enable him to make use of only some of the exceptions or of no exception at all.”
The Minister of Justice emphasized that this also shows that the draft law does not contain a so-called 3G access rule (access only for vaccinated, recovered and tested people). “On the contrary: We even want to delete the legal basis for this under the hotspot rule, which is still in force today.”