More than 200 people who gathered yesterday at five o’clock on Amstettner Hauptplatz had no noise tools with them. They guarded the flickering candlelight with their hands so that the cold wind wouldn’t blow it out this late afternoon. The elementary pedagogue Barbara Laumer had called for the wake for those who died of Covid-19 and for thanks to doctors, nurses and fighters of the pandemic, “so that the silent majority can finally be seen”.
Mayor Christian Haberhauer (VP) also saw an “important sign” of civil society, who had a declaration of sympathy for the event of a sea of lights on the main square, against which the FP parliamentary group did not raise any objection. “So I assume that the entire local council will support the rally,” said Haberhauer, for whom his participation was a matter of honor.
It was not a march, but a standing together of people who show consideration for others and whose attitudes include care. One noticed that. In a hundred there was not a single person to be seen who had not worn an FFP2 mask. These people hide their faces behind the mask out of reasonable conviction, not because they have to. City pastor Peter Bösendorfer and Laumer summed up the denominator: “We will only get out of the pandemic together to the safe shore.”
Specifically, this means that solidarity is required – which can also be expressed with a needle prick for the vaccination. The motto “YesWeCare” of the fairy lights taking place at the same time on Vienna’s Ringstrasse also applies to Amstetten, assured Laumer. The current situation also commands selfishness to be put aside: “The situation at the Amstetten hospital is tense,” warned Laumer.
Source: Nachrichten
