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It was Jens Spahn who said this unusual sentence: "In a few months we will probably have to forgive each other a lot." He said this sentence in April, in the Bundestag.
A sentence with which the Federal Minister of Health concluded politicians, scientists and the population in a community of fate that groped its way through the unknown territory of the pandemic.
Including errors.
From all sides.
It was a bold sentence.
Self-criticism and self-doubt have hardly ever been heard so clearly in the Bundestag.
Incidentally, the minutes recorded laughter from the Left Party.
The problem of mistakes and forgiveness is still the same today, eight months later.
The wrong paths of some scientists, irresponsible behavior in the population and mistakes by those in charge of politics - all of this has existed and is still there.
And Jens Spahn is no exception.
As the Federal Minister of Health, however, this is particularly serious.
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After the confusion about the effectiveness, lack and excess of masks, there was a dangerous delay in the procurement of rapid tests, with which some old people's and nursing homes were supplied much too late.
And then there were mass tests for those returning to travel, which caused overload and chaos in many places.
And further with calls to the general population to get vaccinated against flu, with calls to spend their vacation in Germany.
All of this could not be stopped, the pandemic overtook Spahn again and again.
In September he declared that with the current state of knowledge, one would no longer close hairdressers and neither would retailers.
"That will not happen again." Visiting bans in the care facilities are no longer necessary.
We've been in lockdown for two days.
Spahn's courageous sentence from April about forgiveness is still valid.
There is not much left of many of his pithy sentences that followed.
The coronavirus was faster.
Today the CDU politician signed the ordinance to prioritize corona vaccinations in Germany.
Hopefully a turning point.
For all.
This is what Spahn's plans for vaccination regulations look like
Who will get immunization first?
The vaccination ordinance should specify exactly that.
Apparently, Health Minister Spahn only partially wants to adhere to the recommendations of the Standing Vaccination Commission.
Source: WORLD / Max Seib