Because the number of infections is rising rapidly and the 2-G rule applies in most areas of social life, more and more people want to be vaccinated against the coronavirus or to pick up their third booster syringe. And that as quickly and easily as possible, which is a test of patience for many given the long queues at the vaccination buses and in front of the vaccination center in Haar. “People’s nerves are on edge,” says District Administrator Christoph Göbel (CSU). But with the current rush it is clear that there will be waiting times. A reader from Haar reported a 250-meter-long queue on Tuesday that despite the vaccination appointment, people were still waiting in front of the building two hours later.
Protects employees and helpers against attacks: District Administrator Christoph Göbel (CSU).
(Photo: Angelika Bardehle)
What Göbel says, however, particularly upsets him is the “often aggressive handling” of the emergency services during the vaccination campaigns and in the Haarer Center. There is even talk of “physical attacks” against employees. He himself and many of his employees in the office are currently exposed to attacks and insults – in a dimension that he has not yet experienced in 25 years in the profession.
He understood that people wanted a quick vaccination, said Göbel, and that some of them treated the helpers without any respect was unacceptable. The criticism often hits precisely those who only follow the tasks assigned to them and who come more and more to the limits of their physical and psychological resilience. Göbel thanks all employees and helpers: “It is an unbelievable effort that has been carried out here week after week for almost a year now.”
Police and security at the vaccination day in Ismaning
According to the district administrator, the district is currently doing everything to increase vaccination capacities. “The main limiting problem here is the shortage of staff.” Both the Bavarian Red Cross (BRK), the Johanniter Unfallhilfe and the Malteser Aid Service urgently need additional staff, as the two other vaccination centers in Oberhaching at Keltenring 16 and in Unterschleißheim on Freisinger Strasse will reopen in the middle of next week, in addition to Haar. We are currently looking for full-time and part-time doctors, medical specialists and employees for reception and care.
In the meantime, the district authority is in the process of reactivating the Corona crisis team. The hotline, which citizens can turn to for advice, is also to be strengthened through a service provider. In the best case scenario, questions that would otherwise be dealt with by doctors and paramedics could be answered there.
Ismaning’s Mayor Alexander Greulich (SPD) knows how much the respectful interaction has suffered. There were increasing complaints and reports of aggressiveness and disrespect. In his opinion, “a fruitful togetherness” and “respectful interaction” should be a matter of course. The fact that policemen and security staff had to show up for the vaccination bus campaign shows a societal imbalance, Greulich said at the preliminary budget consultations on Thursday evening in the Ismaning municipal council.
“The hard-working and for us so important pillars cannot and must not be used as buffer stops or lightning rods for annoyance and incomprehension for any failures in big politics,” said Greulich. Otherwise, society runs the risk “that more and more of these pillars, which are so important to us all, will break away in the crisis because they simply can no longer and at some point no longer want to”.