If FDP Vice Kubicki has his way, people infected with corona should decide for themselves whether they want to isolate themselves. Other members of his party are also in favor of lifting the obligation. Health Minister Lauterbach, on the other hand, thinks little of the idea.
Several FDP politicians have spoken out in favor of ending the corona isolation requirement. A discussion about it is correct, said FDP Vice Wolfgang Kubicki to the newspapers of the Funke media group. “In my view, it is overdue, both epidemiologically and for reasons of personal responsibility, to let people make this decision again – as other European countries have long since done.”
FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Saai made a similar statement. He warned of staff failures due to isolation requirements. “We will face enormous challenges in systemically relevant areas if we send masses of people who have tested positive to isolation without symptoms,” he told the “Rheinische Post”.
At the weekend, the chairman of the board of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, Andreas Gassen, spoke out in favor of lifting all corona isolation and quarantine obligations. These should “be lifted until further notice, which would alleviate the shortage of staff in many places,” Gassen told the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”. Anyone who is sick should stay at home. “If you feel healthy, you go to work.”
Gassen is launching an important debate with the proposal, said FDP health expert Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus to the editorial network Germany (RND). Vaccination protects many people from serious illnesses. The Green health politician Saskia Weishaupt, on the other hand, advocated sticking to the rules. When people went to work, they shouldn’t be at risk of getting infected, she told the Funke media group.
Health Minister Karl Lauterbach made it clear over the weekend that he did not believe in the proposal. “Infected people have to stay at home. Otherwise, not only will the number of cases increase even more, but the workplace itself will become a security risk,” wrote the SPD politician on Twitter. Currently, for the general population, the mandatory isolation for corona infected people can end after five days – with a “strongly recommended” negative test at the end.
