Not really known for making thunderous statements, the husband of Angela Merkel came out of his usual reserve on Tuesday.

“It is surprising that a third of the population does not follow scientific knowledge.

This is partly due to a certain laziness and convenience on the part of the Germans, ”Joachim Sauer said on Tuesday in an interview with the Italian daily

La Repubblica

.

A spike that falls in the midst of the debate on compulsory vaccination in Germany.

"The other group is made up of people who follow a personal conviction, a kind of ideological reaction to what they consider to be a dictatorship of vaccination", laments the researcher in quantum physics in the daily newspaper, taken up by his German partner

Die Welt

.

He specifies that "this applies to all levels of education, including academics, doctors and scientists."

The anti-covid vaccine, "a miracle"

Asked about the current "rejection of scientific knowledge", Joachim Sauer judges that "this attitude has probably always existed in some people, but (that) it has never been so obvious as now". "However, we are currently witnessing a great success of science", argues the physicist, who usually avoids any public position outside his field of scientific competence.

“No one would have bet that we would have a vaccine in such a short time.

It was a miracle, ”says Joachim Sauer, a few days before Angela Merkel's departure from Chancellery after 16 years in power in Germany.

"But paradoxically, the result obtained in one year for the Covid has not been achieved in thirty years of scientific research on the environment, so much so that we still do not see the solution to the problem", adds Joachim Sauer.

Less than 70% of the vaccinated population

In Germany, hit by an intense fourth wave of contamination, as in neighboring Austria, the vaccination rate is less than 70%, less than other European countries such as France where it reaches 75%.

The health situation is such that a debate on compulsory vaccination, rejected by Angela Merkel's government, is raging.

Two regional leaders, the Munich conservative Markus Söder, and the ecologist Winfried Kretschmann (Baden-Württemberg), plead for such an obligation, in a joint column published Tuesday by the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “Everyone can think what they want with us. And everyone can be as stubborn as they want. But there too, there is a limit when his own vision of the world causes serious damage to other people, ”denounce the two regional minister-presidents.

Medical associations have also come out in favor of an obligation for the entire population, while the incidence rate of new infections over 7 days on Tuesday approaches the threshold of 400, a record for the 16th day of sharp.

Angela Merkel's CDU, who will leave power in the coming weeks, asked Tuesday the future coalition of three parties that will succeed her to take a position on this subject of a possible vaccine obligation.

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