Buschmann, Weidel, Kubicki
From “responsibility for each other” to “vaccination is absurd”: That’s how the Bundestag debate went
Watch the video: That’s what Marco Buschmann, Alice Weidel and Wolfgang Kubicki say in the Bundestag debate on compulsory vaccination.
- Marco Buschmann (FDP), Federal Minister of Justice: “If the expert council, the Corona Expert Council, says that the group of unvaccinated people over the age of 50 in particular is the greatest concern when it comes to the question of future overloading of the intensive care units, we must very much consider the milder alternative of an age-related, graduated vaccination requirement But the supporters of this tiered vaccination requirement must also seriously ask themselves the question: Is it not conceivable that we could use the very promising antiviral drugs that are showing an extremely high level of effectiveness in the studies if we make them available quickly and across the board . Isn’t that also a perspective and a contribution to protecting our intensive care units and our hospitals from overload? I don’t trust myself to give a final opinion today. But we have to examine these milder alternatives to the best of our knowledge and belief.”
- Alice Weidel (AfD): “If the state presumes to decide about the bodies of its citizens, that is an elementary breach of civilization. It is a tragedy that we have to talk about it at all. There is a corona vaccination requirement, whether for all or for individual population groups no justification, neither medical nor ethical nor legal. A vaccination against a disease that does not pose a life-threatening threat to more than 99 percent of people. With a vaccine that does not reliably protect against infection or the transmission of the pathogen is absurd.”
- Heike Baehrens (SPD): “A general obligation to vaccinate from the age of 18 sends the clear message: we are all responsible for one another. Healthy people for sick people, adults for children, young people for old people. We all share responsibility for those who are under immense pressure in our hospitals and care facilities . Let’s defeat the enemy together, who threatens all of us, who threatens all of our health. Let’s face the virus together. Vote for universal vaccination. Thank you.”
- Wolfgang Kubicki (FDP): “Dear colleagues, it is often heard that vaccination makes sense and that the state obligation is therefore a requirement of social necessity. I expressly share the view that vaccination makes sense. Nevertheless, I think the idea is for the state for all citizens what is sensible, at least problematic. There are many individual reasons for not getting vaccinated. We make it far too easy for ourselves when we say that mainly corona deniers and right-wing radicals decided against the vaccination. That is by no means the case. We have to respect that there are definitely psychological or religious reasons for refusing a vaccination that are worth considering. Who would we be if we were to consider these reasons to be inadmissible in terms of general protection? Especially after we now know that the protection of others through a vaccination is hardly given anymore.”
The Bundestag has debated the introduction of a possible corona vaccination for the first time. Between Justice Minister Buschmann, AfD faction leader Alice Weidel and Deputy Parliament President Wolfgang Kubicki, the lines of conflict become clear.