Habeck sees more rights for vaccinated people as an inevitable development
The Greens chairman Robert Habeck sees the extension of rights for vaccinated people as an inevitable development. It is “completely clear” that people who have been vaccinated have more rights, said Habeck on Sunday in the ZDF “summer interview”. “It goes quite automatically in this direction and is also the right thing to do.” He appealed to the citizens to take responsibility, but refused to make vaccinations compulsory.
“There will be a difference in access of rights and in the freedom of life between vaccinated and unvaccinated people,” said the Green leader. The demand for more rights for vaccinated people does not mean “excluding unvaccinated people”. Everyone also has “the right not to be vaccinated,” said Habeck.
At the same time, he emphasized: “But you do not have the right that everyone who has been vaccinated and the rest of society and the children should take it into account because you have decided yourself to endanger your own life and society.”
The Greens boss refused to make it compulsory. There are “better opportunities” that have “not yet been exhausted,” he emphasized. Instead of “bringing the people to the vaccine” one has to bring “the vaccine to the people”. In Habeck’s opinion, vaccination offers in front of discounters, food banks or schools would be a good way of achieving better vaccination rates.
On the other hand, he considers the abolition of free tests to be “wrong”. This is not a suitable measure to motivate people to vaccinate. In addition, it will then be less known “where the virus is” because fewer people can be tested. (AFP)
