Alena Buyx, chairman of the German Ethics Council/dpa, Michael Kappeler
Berlin – The president of the ethics committee, Alena Buyx, considers some of the criticisms of the government’s measures against the corona pandemic dishonest. She personally “has no problem apologizing that we on the Ethics Council haven’t focused enough on young people,” says Buyx time online in an interview. At the same time, she observes an insatiable need to look for someone to blame. Buyx.
“Sometimes it feels like it’s more about feelings of revenge, about atonement. A vengeance- and anger-driven hunt for the guilty is a dangerously simple solution, so it doesn’t help at all,” says Buyx.
“Our society has constantly debated the best balance between freedom and health. Live and in color. For two and a half years.” This weighed on the public discussion. “She’s demonstrably gotten rougher, more irritable, and more polarized,” Buyx concluded.
We must question, analyze and criticize, said the professor of medical ethics, but remain honest. “The narrative that the whole crown policy was problematic is just solidifying a bit. And that’s not true.” At the same time, he understands most of the criticisms, “because they were really tough decisions.”
Asked if enough was being done for those hardest hit by the pandemic, Buyx said: “There have been shortages. We also said it very clearly. ”An example was the isolation of the elderly in nursing homes in the first blocks. “Some of these were actual human rights violations – and there haven’t been that many in this pandemic.”
Another example are children, adolescents and young adults who have not been focused enough, but who have been “crazily oppressed” “by the measures and by the experience of the crisis as such”. © dpa/aerzteblatt.de
