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Saarbrücken (AP) - FDP chairman Christian Lindner sees the corona vaccine from Mainz-based company Biontech as "a triumph over green and black ideologies".
These ideologies "almost prevented" such an innovation from developing with beneficial effects for the people, said Lindner at the political Ash Wednesday of the FDP of Saarland.
The Greens have always wanted to push back genetic engineering and were proud to have driven BASF's genetic engineering research out of Germany.
The CDU, in turn, has "always given itself to the idea that Germany is not an immigration country at all."
With their immigration history, the founders of Biontech are "the living counterexample that Germany can benefit from it when it is open to top talent".
At the FDP event, which took place online, Lindner criticized the fact that, even a year after the start of the pandemic, Germany was still “relying on the restriction of freedom”.
After it was not possible to regain freedom through quick vaccination, one must at least use the second chance.
This lies in the fact that one can achieve more social and public life again through quick tests.
With appropriate hygiene measures, it would be "then responsible to switch from the blanket and comprehensive lockdown to other forms of fighting pandemics that do not restrict fundamental rights so severely."
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