In view of the out-of-control corona pandemic, medical officials have made serious accusations against politicians in charge and have given them complicity.
They had "failed in words and actions in many places," said the chairman of the World Medical Association, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, of the Düsseldorf newspaper Rheinische Post.
The chairwoman of the Marburger Bund doctors' union, Susanne Johna, said in a similar way in the newspaper: “The measures against the deadly virus were too late, too half-hearted, too different.
The cacophony of the prime ministers was joined by the party-political whispering of freedom, which promised a completely wrong concept of freedom. "Montgomery added:" Anyone who apodictically says "No compulsory vaccination and never again lockdown" has not understood the epidemiology of the virus and plays into their hands. “Winter is going to be cold.
"It's up to us that it doesn't turn out bitter and deadly."
"There was no lack of warnings"
Marburger Bund boss Johna said: “We could have been much better prepared. There was no shortage of warnings from science. ”As early as mid-July, a group of scientists from the Technical University of Berlin predicted exponential growth in infections in autumn, but this was largely ignored. “All those who warned of the worsening situation during this period and in late summer were not taken seriously; warnings were dismissed as scaremongering. Urgent notices were ignored in the middle of the election campaign because they were obviously politically undesirable. Instead, there were discussions about whether a "Freedom Day" could not be proclaimed soon, "criticized Johna.
The FDP, in particular, insisted on freedom rights, but there were also some Union and even Green politicians - as well as, for example, head of health insurance doctors, Andreas Gassen.
Doctors demand more pressure on the unvaccinated
With a view to the upcoming Prime Minister's Conference, she said: "The meeting on Thursday will come late, but at least there is now the chance to take uniform measures that do justice to current events." It was "wrong to rule out any necessary instruments from the outset" .
Montgomery called for the pressure on the unvaccinated to be increased significantly.
“Vaccination is compulsory wherever people have a guarantor position towards those who are being weaned, ie in old people's homes, in hospitals or at school.
If you don't want that, you can't work there. "
"Time lost with booster vaccination"
Klaus Reinhardt, President of the German Medical Association, points out serious failures in booster vaccinations.
“We lost two to three months with the booster vaccinations,” Reinhardt told the newspaper Die Welt.
“It was foreseeable that the booster vaccinations for the general practitioners would represent a major logistical challenge alongside the influenza vaccination and the care for seasonal infections.” Parts of the low-threshold vaccination centers should have remained in place from the start.
"Pretending that it is a piece of cake to have all booster vaccinations only in the doctor's office is definitely wrong."