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The Braunschweig virologist Melanie Brinkmann has sharply criticized the current corona policy of the federal and state governments.
“What is being presented to us is an intellectual insult to everyone and not a perspective,” said the researcher from the TU Braunschweig to the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger”. “We are now loosening up if the incidence is too high, but we have no follow-up strategy for a third wave to prevent."
The lockdown of the past few months was not used to implement new measures such as more efficient contact tracking, rapid vaccination, intelligent testing, criticized Brinkmann.
These measures must be implemented before easing can be allowed.
"As a citizen with old parents on the one hand and three school-age children on the other, I feel abandoned," said Brinkmann, who works at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) and advises the federal and state governments.
She is disillusioned with how badly the pandemic fight in Germany is succeeding.
“Actually, I don't want to have quoted such sentences from myself.
After all, I'm a scientist.
But I am also a citizen.
I think it's a very bad idea to open schools with the current high incidences in Germany - without a test concept.
Anyone who understands the dynamics of the virus can only be appalled. "
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With the resolutions of last week “we will rush into the next wave”, warned Brinkmann.
“And we will have to close again because the intensive care units will fill up.
But then no longer with the over 80-year-olds, because they are now vaccinated.
But with the 50 to 80 year olds.
And their total number is far greater. ”Nevertheless, in the fight against the coronavirus,“ the race is not yet lost.
We just have to ignite our rocket engine now. "
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