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The guest list of the Thursday edition of “Markus Lanz” was limited to interlocutors with the professions journalist, journalist, politician, politician and pharmacist - at the same time no Karl Lauterbach far and wide.

Anyone who expected boredom because of this, however, had done the math without Reiner Haseloff.

The Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt got Lanz to end his 1,500th program with a shirt that was soaked in sweat, of course.

The dissent started with Haseloff's general assessment of the situation.

The CDU politician found that Germany has been on the right track in terms of pandemic issues - also in comparison to other countries such as Great Britain, which are undertaking "experiments with society".

You “fight” every day to get the incidences down.

"And if you look at the figures again in Europe, then I would ask you, Mr. Lanz, to note that we as Germany have come through very, very well so far." Lanz did not see it that way, the sea still remained but calm.

It got spicy for the first time with the topic of school openings and the question to Haseloff why one wanted to enforce face-to-face lessons without compulsory presence.

You just know, replied the Prime Minister, “that 95 to 98 percent of the students will come”.

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In a "disaster" situation, the rest of the police do not want to be dragged into schools, so the idea of ​​face-to-face lessons without mandatory attendance was born.

Schools can be reopened with alternating classes and other strategies.

Haseloff began to speak furiously.

“We have experience with it (…).

We have hygiene concepts, it's not like we're starting from scratch.

Anyone who tells something like that has no idea what is really going on on site. "

Lanz then added that he himself was very much someone who would “tell it exactly like that” - and then added something with the statement that the manufacturers of rapid tests would pile up the products and ultimately go abroad “because we don't are able to certify them ”.

But politicians could not be held responsible for the certification, Haseloff shot back, now visibly upset.

Rather, that is the task of the specialist authorities.

Politicians are also not to blame for the fact that AstraZeneca's vaccine developed a bad reputation.

"That's not enough!"

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On Lanz's statement that he was meanwhile constantly advertising the vaccine in his broadcast, Haseloff's evidently pent-up anger discharged through the public broadcasters.

“Yes, but too late.

Who is looking so late?

That’s not enough (…).

Let yourself be well placed and tell exactly what we are now discussing here ”.

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Once on the subject, Lanz couldn't help but swipe at the increase in broadcasting fees, which had failed because of the Saxony-Anhalt veto.

Haseloff countered this with a basic tirade against the orientation of the public broadcasters, which he was on the air late in the evening: “The first assignment for public television is an educational assignment.

And that's why this program, which is also educational, belongs up front, and a quiz, or what kind of program I know, belongs back.

For those who cannot fall asleep. "

The direction the conversation had taken at this point made the rest of the studio guests grin in amusement.

In response to Lanz's objection that he was watched by more than two million people and six million at the heute-journal on Sundays, Haseloff only replied that more than 60 million people had to be vaccinated in order to achieve herd immunity.

Accordingly, more viewers would have to be won.

The theme ride through all possible corona problems subsequently rocked up to dialogues like this: “We have vaccine” - “No, we don't have” - “Yes” - “No”.

All that was missing was an “Oooh” from Louis de Funès.

“I'm soaked in sweat,” says Lanz

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Before the program switched to the other guests, Lanz Haseloff presented, as it were, as a farewell greeting, recordings of his state party convention, at which a hundred delegates met in a ballroom in mid-February - without a mask.

When Lanz's editorial team played the recordings and Haseloff suspected what the moderator was getting at, he tried to slip in between: "Nenenenene" - Lanz: "Very briefly to the end" - "Jajajajaja."

Haseloff put in why the event was safe: distances measured by the health department, mask requirement to the place and, above all, quick tests for all participants.

The event shows that with appropriate precautionary measures, such gatherings of people “in the next few weeks and months” could be afforded, “up to football and even theaters and cinemas”.

That was exactly what they wanted to say, said Lanz.

At the same time, parents asked themselves why such concepts worked at party events, but why similar measures for schools were reluctant.

Before the school debate went into a new round, Lanz moderated his uncomfortable guest.

“I'm soaked in sweat,” he said.

District Administrator von Regen can "no longer hear" the word incidence

After the prime minister's stag appearance, things continued with a similar passion.

Rita Röhrl (SPD) is the district administrator of the Lower Bavarian district of Regen, where the incidence has been reduced from 579 to 67.

The word incidence, however, said the politician, she “could no longer hear”.

The value does not say much on its own, but has to be combined with other information such as the situation in the clinics.

Rita Röhrl, District Administrator of Regen

Source: dpa-infocom GmbH

This triggered - among the other guests as well - a discussion about failed corona strategies and a lack of overview of the overall situation.

One of the complaints was that, for example, it was still not known where and how people were infected.

After a year of the pandemic, it should be easier to resolve.

Röhrl, she said, would "very much like" to serve as a "test district", for example to try out quick tests in retail.

However, such strategies could fail because people gave their data to Google, but not to the state - "Germans are a little bit crazy too, right?"

Wiegand refuses to apologize for his early vaccination

The episode was concluded with Halle's Lord Mayor Bernd Wiegand, who became known to large parts of Germany with his early corona vaccination, because of which the public prosecutor is currently investigating.

Wiegand has received sharp criticism from all sides in the past few weeks, and has been labeled as a “precautionary vaccine”.

In Morocco, on the other hand, which has meanwhile left Germany behind when it comes to vaccination, the king was naturally the very first to be vaccinated in the country.

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Wiegand's version of the story reads like this: His dose would have been thrown away had it not been for an injection.

However, it was a mistake not to have communicated the process immediately.

The non-party mayor declined an apology.

"You can criticize that," said Wiegand.

Lanz, who promptly pointed out the moral component of a perhaps even legally correct approach, did not let himself be denied.

Not even after one and a half thousand broadcasts and a heavy sweat.