Sigrid mushroom, Patient advocate for the city of Vienna, criticizes the federal government’s strategy in the fight against Omikron. “Obviously, the decision was made in the past not to prepare,” said Pilz in the “ZiB2” interview on Friday evening. We have known “for several weeks what is in store for us.” Now you are faced with a situation “that is difficult to cope with”.
According to Pilz, a “containment strategy” could have been tried with protective devices for schools, kindergartens and the weak. Now you are faced with a situation in which it says “we allow the contamination and you weak people, you little ones, you children, see where you stay.”
A lockdown is the “ultima ratio”, but there are other means, such as a “large information campaign” on wearing masks. Pilz called, among other things, to equip schools with FFP2 masks that fit children and to ensure that the staff in kindergartens and schools are vaccinated.