On Monday, Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach announced that the previously mandatory isolation in the event of an infection with Corona would no longer apply from May. The health authorities are overloaded and can no longer check whether the isolation is being observed. Therefore, isolation after the positive test is now an urgent recommendation, but no longer mandatory. Then on Tuesday evening the about-face: Lauterbach announced on Markus Lanz’s talk show that he had made a mistake and that there should still be an obligation to isolate infected people for five days.
In the podcast, SZ health expert Werner Bartens talks about the minister’s “180 degree turnaround”: “You can say that it was a belated April Fool’s joke. If someone who stands for as much thoroughness and accuracy and scientificity as Karl Lauterbach, which explains it and then takes it back the next day.” But it also generates respect that Lauterbach admitted his mistake.
However, Bartens is not satisfied with the current corona policy in Germany: “It is now being pretended that the pandemic has ended in a coup. That one announces by decree: That’s it now, enough with it.” But that is not the case. In the podcast, Bartens also advocates compulsory vaccination from the age of 18 and not only from the age of 60. This form of compulsory vaccination is to be voted on in the Bundestag on Thursday.
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