Mask requirement
Virologist Streeck considers new corona measures to be superfluous
Hendrik Streeck pleads for more personal responsibility in the fight against Corona
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Virologist Hendrik Streeck speaks out against a general obligation to wear masks indoors. In the fight against the pandemic, you have to rely more on personal responsibility, says the doctor.
The virologist Hendrik Streeck considers new corona measures to be superfluous – even if he expects the numbers to increase in autumn. The summer wave was “created by itself and broke by itself, without the effect of measures,” Streeck told the “Bild am Sonntag”. “Measures can reduce a corona wave, but not break it.”
The virologist therefore advises against a general obligation to wear a mask indoors. Presenting the mask as a “wonderful preventive method” against infections is wrong, said Streeck, who is a member of the Federal Government’s Expert Council. Most people got infected in private rooms.
Hendrik Streeck: “It can’t be our goal to avoid every infection”
Instead, one should “explain to people who are particularly at risk in which situations a mask is important and how it is worn correctly”. According to “Bild am Sonntag”, Streeck explained: “It can no longer be our goal to avoid every infection.” In the summer wave there were “probably well over a million new infections per day”, if you count the undiscovered cases. “That has certainly slowed down the current wave.” Nevertheless, “it can be assumed that the numbers will increase again in the course of the autumn,” Streeck told the newspaper.
However, when dealing with the pandemic, one should rely less on measures ordered by the state and more on the individual responsibility of the citizens, the doctor explained a few weeks ago star TV on Sunday. “We can’t spend the rest of our lives worrying,” he said Broadcast.