At the usual high level of indignation, FDP speaker Wolfgang Kubicki tore up Health Minister Jens Spahn's plans for the corona rules in the forthcoming fourth wave of infections.
In the election campaign for his party, the Vice President of the Bundestag slips into his favorite role as a tough fighter for the unrestricted freedom of all unvaccinated people - health protection, delta variant and high corona wave or not.
Why it should be the “most brazen and most devastating breach of the word of this federal government” when it wants to see people who have not been vaccinated treated differently than someone who, as a fully vaccinated or recovered person, poses little or no risk of infection and who is most likely no longer seriously ill with Covid-19 remains Kubicki's secret.
Of course, vaccine-weary, vaccine-skeptics and vaccination opponents can perceive it as a rough leverage, but also as an incentive if vaccinated people get their freedom rights back in full and there could be restrictions again for unvaccinated people with high numbers of infections.
However, this is not the same as a direct vaccination requirement, as Kubicki claims, but is the self-chosen consequence of the free decision not to be vaccinated.
Whether the FDP is well advised to conduct a polarizing Corona election campaign in competition with the AfD and fueled by the boulevard? The shot could backfire.