W.eltärztebund chairman Frank Ulrich Montgomery shows no understanding that the compulsory vaccination is a long time coming. In “RTL Direkt”, Montgomery says: “Politics is currently very slow”, in the implementation of the MPK decisions on quarantine and also in the case of mandatory vaccinations.
“When I hear that the Bundestag cannot meet because it is Carnival week and then there is no meeting, then that is a slap in the face of all the doctors and nurses who are always on call, at any time of the day or night. That can’t be an argument, they should come to Potte now! “
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2:59 a.m. – Canadian province of Québec plans to introduce tax on unvaccinated people
The Canadian province of Québec wants to introduce a tax specifically for people who do not want to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. “We are working on a health contribution” for “all adults who refuse to be vaccinated,” said the head of the provincial government, François Legault, on Tuesday. Unvaccinated people are “a financial burden” for their fellow citizens. Criticism came from the opposition.
Legault accused the vaccinators of “clogging our hospitals”. While only ten percent of the province’s adult residents are not vaccinated against the coronavirus, 50 percent of the patients treated in the intensive care unit are unvaccinated. “It is not up to all Québecans to pay for it.” He said that those who are not vaccinated for medical reasons will be exempted from the proposed measure.
According to official information, 2,742 Covid-19 patients are currently being treated in the hospital in the province of Québec with its eight million inhabitants, 255 of them in the intensive care unit. In view of the renewed increase in the number of infections, strict restrictions on public life were reintroduced in Québec towards the end of the year, including a night curfew and a ban on large private gatherings.
2:41 a.m. – Mexicans shouldn’t go to testing despite symptoms, according to the government
In the face of a record number of new corona infections, the Mexican government has called on the population not to go for tests if they have symptoms. “Instead of running to the kiosk to get tested, it is best to stay at home so as not to infect other people,” said Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell on Tuesday.
If anyone with a cough or sore throat goes for testing, it will cause anxiety and reduce the availability of tests for medically necessary cases, said the government spokesman for the pandemic strategy. Accordingly, there is a worldwide shortage of tests.
According to media reports, there were long queues with hundreds of people in Mexico City on Tuesday in front of public hospitals, pharmacies and health stations where the tests are being carried out. In Mexico, the number of coronavirus infections has increased significantly in the last few days. A record 33,626 infections have been recorded in the past 24 hours. The country is one of the most severely affected by the pandemic.
Meanwhile, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who had contracted the virus for the second time, said that he felt “pretty good” and had only mild symptoms such as a sore throat, hoarseness and aching limbs. The announcement of his infection on Monday had aroused criticism because a few hours earlier he had appeared in front of journalists in a hoarse voice and without a mask.
1:39 a.m. – Kubicki against Parliament Poet for the Bundestag
Bundestag Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki (FDP) has spoken out against a parliamentary poet for the Bundestag. “I can not win much from the proposal,” said Kubicki the “Tagesspiegel” according to the report on Tuesday. Above all, he sees “that there is a great misunderstanding of artistic activity behind this idea,” said the FDP politician and added: “Artists should actually be thorns in the flesh of the rulers, not their employees.”
According to Kubicki, it would be better “to give all artists who have been hard hit by the pandemic the opportunity to work freely instead of implementing such an elitist project.” Bundestag Vice President Katrin Göring-Eckardt (Greens) had recently promoted the proposal. In the “Tagesspiegel” she announced that she would like to discuss the idea in the Presidium of the Bundestag.
1:00 a.m. survey – four out of ten employees complain about home office equipment
Four out of ten employees feel stressed in the home office because of a poorly equipped workplace. This is the result of a Forsa survey for the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK), which the Funke media group has. Nevertheless, according to TK data, there was no significant increase in back problems.
But with a share of almost 18 percent of the total number of sick days in the first corona year of 2020, musculoskeletal disorders were, as in previous years, in second place among the diagnoses with the most days of absence among TK insured persons. In first place were absenteeism due to mental health problems.
00:05 – patient protection advocates Scholz to turn back if vaccination is compulsory
The patient advocate Eugen Brysch has asked Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz to give up the plan of a general corona vaccination. “The discussion about compulsory vaccination is currently overshadowing everything. But whether it really comes is becoming more and more improbable from day to day, ”said the board of the German Foundation for Patient Protection to the editorial network Germany (RND, Wednesday). “Even if the Chancellor has made vaccination a top priority, Olaf Scholz should now have the size to turn back. Because more urgent issues have been postponed for far too long. “
The questions about vaccination are very complex, said Brysch. Anyone who wants to get started now must also explain how the exit from duty will be possible. “And that against the background that neither virus variants will be stopped in the future, nor will the vaccination lead to sterile immunity,” argued the patient advocate. It is clear, however, that the vaccination is the best protection for yourself.
12:02 a.m. – Legal framework for new quarantine rules is coming
A legal framework for the planned new corona quarantine rules is to be sealed this week. In the future, among other things, “boosted” with booster vaccinations will be exempt from quarantine as a contact person for infected people. The Federal Cabinet is to deal with a corresponding ordinance this Wednesday, as the Ministry of Health said on Tuesday evening. It should then come to the Bundestag on Thursday and finally to the Bundesrat on Friday. Ultimately, the quarantine rules must be implemented by the federal states.
According to an RKI draft, the quarantine for contact persons of infected people and the isolation if you are sick yourself should be based on a “seven-day rule”: They can end after seven days if you deal with a negative PCR- or quick test “free tests”. Without a test, they should take ten days in the future.
The regulations should apply regardless of the form of the virus. So far, depending on the virus variant, vaccination and convalescence status, quarantine and isolation can apply for up to 14 days. When it comes to omicrons, for example, there are no exceptions for those who have been vaccinated. The quarantine reductions are intended to keep important supply areas running even in the event of a sharp increase in the number of infected people.
11:16 p.m. – Fauci insults the US Senator after a heated exchange of blows
In a heated exchange of blows with Republican MPs at a hearing in the US Congress, the presidential Covid advisor Anthony Fauci broke the collar. The immunologist – whose microphone was still on after being questioned by Senator Roger Marshall – said of him: “What an idiot, Jesus Christ”. The word “Moron” used can also be translated as idiot, idiot or idiot.
The reason was the openly hostile questioning of Marshall, who wanted to know from the 81-year-old Fauci as the “highest paid government employee” whether he would disclose his finances and investments. Fauci replied that he had been doing this for more than 30 years: “You are so misinformed. It’s extraordinary. ”Conservative MPs had attacked Fauci repeatedly over the past few months. He is well respected in US society. For many Corona skeptics, vaccination and mask opponents from the right-wing fringe, on the other hand, he has become an enemy.