WELT:
Ms. Post, you researched the corona debate in Germany during the first lockdown, your study has just been published.
Has Germany succeeded in openly discussing the problems of the pandemic?
Senja Post:
Until the time of our investigation, that didn't work out very well.
Only a few actors had a say.
That is why the discourse was extremely homogeneous from the start.
In addition, politicians and the media were involved in building up illusions of certainty - for example, by reporting the apparently objective, apparently speaking for themselves case numbers of those infected with corona every day.
WORLD: In
the first lockdown in 2020 you asked a good 1,500 representative selected people in Germany how they perceived public communication and what they expected from journalists, scientists and politicians.
What did you find out?