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Around 2.5 million doses of vaccine are unused in Germany.
Since mid-February it has been apparent that Germany itself is slipping below the EU average in terms of the vaccinated proportion of the population - everyone who has ever warned against German “vaccine nationalism” can be happy.
Everyone else is still waiting for their syringe.
After the order, the government is now screwing up the distribution.
Every medium-sized company could manage the logistics better.
In the summer of 2020, when these questions could have been dealt with, members of the federal government wrote in letters that they saw "no shortages to fear in ... production capacities".
Today the website of the Federal Ministry of Health says: "It was always clear that once a license was granted, there could not be enough vaccine available for everyone."
The vaccination ordinance states that the vaccine will be administered gradually to specific groups according to the degree of their health risk.
That only makes sense if the state can organize it.
The ordinance also states: "The sequence ... can be deviated from in individual cases if this is necessary for the efficient organization of the protective vaccinations ... and to avoid vaccines being discarded in the short term." The case has occurred, but nothing is changed.
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Not only those with previous illnesses, but all people have a right to the material.
As well as their basic rights and their social life.
In Great Britain, the third wave is fended off thanks to the vaccinations that are running properly there, the numbers show it.
When it came to restricting fundamental rights last year, the Chancellor and Health Minister argued tough and very straightforward with death.
Now that the government itself is failing to vaccinate, politicians' metaphors have softened.
Surely one will not measure with two different standards?
One could now build a website on which any citizen who wants to be vaccinated with leftover vaccine could register.
Then you would receive a text message: “Your vaccination will be ready in four hours” including the location.
The banal idea came to me together with a politician whom I recently met for a walk.
“Yes,” he said, “but do you think we can do that?” The question was meant rhetorically.
Germany can't go digital.
In this country less than 14 percent of all households have fiber optic connections;
not even half as many as the EU average.
In Latvia it is 90 percent.
The coalition agreement says: "Our goal is: fiber optics in every region ... as directly as possible to the house." You can see that this government had great goals even before the pandemic.
It just doesn't reach them.
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This text is from WELT AM SONNTAG.
We are happy to deliver them to your home on a regular basis.
Source: Welt am Sonntag