W.senior physician president Frank Ulrich Montgomery has sharply criticized Richter for judging corona measures. “I bump into the fact that little judges stand up and, like in Lower Saxony, 2 G in the retail trade because they do not consider it proportionate,” said Montgomery of the newspaper Die Welt, according to an advance notice on Sunday. A court would presume to reject something that scientific and political bodies had laboriously wrested from them with reference to proportionality.
“I have big problems there,” said Montgomery. There are “situations in which it is right, the freedoms behind the right to physical health – not just for yourself, but for everyone – to be classified “. “And we have such a situation,” said the World Medical President.
Montgomery sees the current pandemic as an opportunity to achieve immunization more quickly with Omikron. “If the omicron virus, which we can only hope for at the moment, has a significantly lower disease burden, I would still vaccinate like crazy,” he said.
“The unvaccinated then just have to go through the disease – in the end, we might have been lucky enough to reach immunization faster, ”he added. But he reckons that “there will be more to come”. There will be “even more variants – the Greek alphabet goes to Omega ”.
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The new Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann (FDP) reacted on Sunday evening to Montgomery’s statements and rejected his criticism of judges for rulings on Corona rules. “Germany can be proud of its highly qualified and independent judiciary. It opens access to the law and brings the idea of the rule of law to life “, wrote the FDP politician on Twitter. “Therefore it deserves respect – regardless of whether the viewer makes every decision,” added Buschmann.
The background to this is a ruling by the Lower Saxony Higher Administrative Court on December 16. This had overturned the 2-G rule in the state’s retail trade. The court decided that the measure was not necessary to further contain the coronavirus and was not compatible with the general principle of equality. Among other things, the Senate complained that there were no reliable and comprehensible findings on the actual risk of infection in retail. The state could also require retail customers to wear an FFP2 mask. This would reduce the risk of infection to such an extent “that it can almost be neglected,” said the court.
On December 2, the federal and state governments decided that 2G should apply nationwide and regardless of the incidence in retail. Exceptions to the 2-G rule apply to shops with daily needs, such as supermarkets and drug stores.