The prophetic sentence of the former health minister at the beginning of the pandemic has now also caught up with the German Ethics Council.
“We will have to forgive each other a lot,” the CDU politician Jens Spahn had predicted with regard to the corona measures he was also pushing.
Measures that have not only proven to be unnecessary in the fight against Corona, but also harmful to many people.
Society and politics still owe a lot to children, adolescents and young adults in particular, complains the Chairwoman of the Ethics Council, expressly including her committee in this.
Lauterbach's promise
Alena Buyx is right with her (self) criticism: The psychological stress on young people, for example due to school and daycare closures, was not sufficiently recognized, and the admission of this mistake was largely absent.
Offers of advice, help and therapy were far too sparse given the great mental distress that many experienced during the pandemic.
Spahn's SPD successor Lauterbach has promised that daycare centers, schools and universities will remain open in the future if there are further corona waves.
Only the FDP Minister of Education admitted that the closure was a mistake.
As a social minority, the young generation has shown great solidarity during the pandemic.
In the next crisis, she must not be left alone again.