In the fight against the corona pandemic, Karl Lauterbach calls for temporary curfews and expresses bitter criticism of the Federal Government’s approach.
- Is on Twitter Karl Lauterbach very active and often expresses himself Corona-Location.
- Corona-News: Der SPD Politician has already called for tough measures several times.
- Against the third corona wave just work one Lockdown With Curfew, so Lauterbach.
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Update from Tuesday, March 30th, 2021, 12:53 p.m .: In the end, Karl Lauterbach always had a tough one Lockdown demanded and the Corona measures criticized. Now the SPD health expert is going one step further on Twitter by responding to a tweet from Clemens Fuest, head of the Munich Ifo Institute.
In response to Fuest’s statement: “Not using the Easter holidays to reduce infections is an attack on children and families”, Lauterbach wrote: “I fully agree with Clemens Fuest”. The SPD politician also accuses the current federal government under Angela Merkel of wanting to keep “certain critical voters happy” with loosening.
According to Lauterbach, this is at the expense of families and children and the chronically ill, who can become very seriously ill weeks before the vaccination. With this, the politician underpins his opinion again, control in the current one Corona events to have to bring.
Karl Lauterbach accuses the federal government in a Twitter post of wanting to keep critical voters happy with the current Corona policy. (Symbol image)
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Corona in Germany: Lauterbach warns of high incidences and makes three demands
+++ 5:01 p.m .: Karl Lauterbach follows up on his demands Curfews further after: “The truth is, we first have to really bring control into what is happening. We need something to stop exponential growth now, and that cannot be done with relaxation ”.
Tests alone are not enough to get the corona infection process in, according to the health expert in WDR. If everything was left to run like this, the incidences would rise to over 200 in a few weeks. Therefore, the SPD politician pleads for one Home office compulsory, regular tests in companies and temporary curfews in the evening.
Movement data from cell phones would show that many people still meet privately in the evening. According to Lauterbach, this is understandable, but it must be limited for a while.
Corona case numbers are increasing: Karl Lauterbach calls for curfews
Update from Monday, March 29th, 2021, 11:21 am: While the corona infections continue to rise in Germany, the death rate is slowly falling thanks to the vaccination campaigns. So far in Germany there are approx 76,000 people died in connection with the corona virus, but Karl Lauterbach fears higher numbers and says so Daily mirrorthat one must remain “well below 100,000 dead”.
Therefore, faster first vaccinations, compulsory testing for companies and exit restrictions are urgently needed. “Otherwise we won’t make it,” said the SPD health expert. After the “Easter rest” was overturned by Chancellor Merkel, Lauterbach also calls for a new corona summit to be called quickly. There should be a Curfew be decided between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., nationwide and for at least two weeks.
Corona in Germany: Lauterbach does not believe in model projects
Update from Saturday, March 27th, 2021, 10:48 a.m .: Karl Lauterbach (SPD) extends his demands for a new one Corona summit and Exit restrictions – now they should too Model projects be stopped with relaxations in combination with corona tests. These should start after Easter. The Daily mirror he said that there should be no openings or model projects. “We don’t need Jugend forscht now, so neither do we need Tübingen everywhere,” he said in an interview.
The politician described the decisions of the Saarland as “lacking in solidarity”. The corona measures are to be relaxed there soon. As a border region, the federal state had received additional vaccination doses and through the openings “the entire Break the message“, Said Lauterbach.
To prevent the spread of the Coronavirus Sars-Cov-2 and other deaths related to Covid-19 To prevent this, the contacts would now have to be reduced. “It is one illusory Ideasthat we are loosening up and the number of cases is still going down. ”This attitude is“ absurd ”and will not work.
Karl Lauterbach calls for a new Corona summit: “It won’t work without a sharp lockdown”
Update from Saturday, March 27th, 2021, 4:54 p.m .: SPD politician Karl Lauterbach is promptly calling for one in view of the sharp rise in new infections new corona summit. “We have to renegotiate again quickly,” Lauterbach said Daily mirror. “Without one sharp lockdown it won’t work ”, he emphasized and defended his demand nationwide curfews. “Exit restrictions from 8 p.m. for two weeks would work – we’ve seen it in France, Great Britain and Portugal.”
In political Berlin, too little is said about them hazards spoken, criticized Lauterbach. “Far too little is talked about the strength of the third wave, which age groups it affects and how dangerous the mutations are for the middle age groups.”
Currently there is a doubling of new corona infections about every 2.5 weeks, Lauterbach writes on Twitter. “That means that by the end of April we would have 80,000 cases a day. Of course we will take countermeasures beforehand hard lockdown. But we hesitate too long. Too many avoidable individual fates, ”tweeted the health expert.
Karl Lauterbach calls for a harder lockdown: B.1.1.7 wave is drastically different from the second wave
Update from Wednesday, March 24th, 2021, 12:17 p.m .: Of the SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach has become the current Corona resolutions at the federal-state conference. He hold that Oster-Lockdown although urgently needed, there would have been even more severe restrictions, such as a Curfew desired. “We need another lockdown to get the pace out of this B.1.1.7-Mutant to get out. None of the others did it any other way. There is no third way. ”Said the SPD politician on Wednesday (March 24th, 2021) in WDR.
It is also scientifically proven that against a third corona wave with the dangerous British variant only Lockdowns With Curfew worked, notes Lauterbach. “That’s why I would have even done it temporarily until we had distributed the tests everywhere in the companies and in the schools and could then test them there, then the curfew would no longer have been necessary.”
When testing it comes according to that SPD health experts on that this should be done systematically in the companies and schools: “Heat school openings without rapid tests 3rd wave on. Many will become infected in companies because B117 is much more contagious. The layman remembers that things went very well in operation even in the second wave. But he overlooks the fact that B117 hits him much faster, harder, ”writes Lauterbach on Twitter.
Karl Lauterbach in the criticism: Facebook user called for the murder of the member of the Bundestag
First report from Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021, 3:23 p.m .: Kassel – at least since then CoronaPandemic also in Germany claimed the first victims last year and changed everyday life throughout the republic Karl Lauterbach most people know it. In addition to his advisory role in matters of measures to contain the coronavirus, the health economist can also be seen in various television programs.
There it gets SPD-Politicians more often in criticism, as he often calls for stricter rules and measures. On the Internet, however, certain statements go far beyond legitimate criticism: A Facebook-User has last publicly to Murder of the 58-year-old called. Made the incident Karl Lauterbach public even at the weekend – and described the incident as “unbelievable”.
Video: curfew in Germany – is it not absolutely necessary for Karl Lauterbach?
Corona: Karl Lauterbach calls for lockdown, followed by a murder call on Facebook
In the media the opinion of Karl Lauterbach often picked up. So became an article on the news platform Focus Online Posted by a Facebook group called “For our home”, including the comment “Short hard lockdown of three to four weeks! That is a bottomless cheek ”. The article was about the SPD politician’s demand for a new one Lockdown to cause.
Under the Facebook-Post can be plentiful hateful comments Find. From “locked away he belongs” to death threats such as “ideal would be if you shot this asshole in no time”. Of the Twitter-Account “Dieinsider” had drawn attention to the threat on the short message platform and, according to its own statements, handed over the screenshots to “the competent authority”, so merkur.de.
Call for murder against Corona expert Karl Lauterbach: Christian Lindner comments
Karl Lauterbach is appalled by the statement and urges Twitter against people who scientist and Politician Want to “muzzle”, to stick together. The health expert gets a lot of encouragement under his tweet. In addition, many commentators wonder whether the perpetrator can be prosecuted for his testimony. The Twitter account “Dieinsider” then referred to an examination of the facts by the Public prosecutor. However, it is so far unclear whether the case will be pursued.
Also FDP federal chairman Christian Lindner expressed at Twitter his solidarity: “Intimidation or even violence have no place in our democracy. I do not share every opinion Karl Lauterbach and like to argue with him, but on this question he has my full solidarity ”. (Nail Akkoyun, Helena Gries and Jennifer Greve)
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