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On Wednesday, the federal and state governments will discuss how to proceed in the corona pandemic.
Is it possible to relax, although experts are already talking about a “third wave”?
What role do vaccinations, quick tests and newly developed apps play in deciding on the right opening strategy after the lockdown?
It is clear that the pressure on the Chancellor and the Prime Ministers is growing.
Large parts of the population expect a way out of the permanent lockdown in perspective.
Presumably that is why the political decision-makers did not want to look into their cards so shortly before the meeting on Sunday evening.
With Anne Will, they left the debate to others.
During the talk under the heading “The great perplexity - is there a way out of the permanent lockdown?” Federal Chancellery chief Helge Braun (CDU), the science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar, the former Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP), the German rap pioneer Smudo discussed and Christiane Woopen, Chair of the European Ethics Council.
Politics according to the motto: "Will it go wrong?"
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First, Will checked out the only political representative in the group.
Although the federal-state conference had recently decided that from March 1st, only hairdressers will be allowed to open for the time being, as long as the incidence value is not stable at below 35, numerous exceptions are already looming.
Does politics act according to the motto "will it go wrong?", Will wanted to know from Helge Braun?
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He initially argued in an astonishingly irrational way: "We all feel that many people have the feeling that we have been in lockdown since November, now there must be openings somewhere." Relaxing feelings and moods do not fit with the previous course of the Federal Chancellery was heard.
"That is a slap in the face of the population"
Braun then quickly put things into perspective and pointed out the dangers of virus mutations.
Nevertheless, openings can be allowed because quick tests can be used to make additional contacts safer.
Rapid tests are now available on a completely different scale than in October.
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Christiane Woopen doubted that they were currently adequately equipped with rapid tests.
"When the Federal Ministry of Health says they have 800 million rapid tests for this year, and claims that this is not a defect, then that is a slap in the face of the population." So many tests are only sufficient for a few weeks if you have it as part of it a serious test strategy and want to carry out openings in a protected manner.
Rapid tests and warning app
According to Woopen, major investments should be made in new tests: “That is where the money belongs.
It's all much cheaper than compensation for the lockdown. ”Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger also called for a clear plan for how quick tests should be brought to consumers.
“It must now be clearly stated how this is supposed to happen, whether the tests are there and where I can get them.
It mustn't be as rough a start as the vaccination, ”warned the FDP politician.
She also advocated additional digital strategies, with which she played the ball to Ranga Yogeshwar and Smudo.
The rapper of the Fantastischen Vier is currently involved in the development of the Luca app, for which the show was able to advertise a lot.
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The app is intended to make the effort of tracking contacts, for example after going to a restaurant, hotel or concert, easier for all parties, replace the previous mess of paper and also maintain data security.
“The problem is that the RKI cannot see where the sources of infection are.
That's why we have to make them visible, ”explained Smudo.
The federally funded Corona warning app could hardly do that in connection with contact tracking on paper.
The responsibility
Yogeshwar sharply criticized this: “Why hasn't something like Luca been implemented in the official app for a long time?
Can I not understand
Who programmed that? ”And again the seemingly overwhelmed Braun counterattacked, which ended as an own goal:“ Why does the state always have to offer everything in Germany?
It's really nice that Smudo is sitting here today and making an app that is an excellent addition to the Corona warning app. "
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Yogeshwar immediately drew attention to who financed the toothless but many million euro expensive app from the federal government: “The state spent a lot of money on the Corona warning app and that came from us taxpayers.
I expect that this will be promoted and that people like Smudo will not have to develop such effective features as well. "
Braun's next objection, that the health authorities would first have to be set to software in order to be able to use such apps, was immediately collected by Smudo. That is not necessary at all, there have long been other options for the offices to evaluate the data sets. It remains to be hoped that those involved will argue a little more watertight after the upcoming federal-state conference than Helge Braun on Sunday evening.