“Compulsory vaccination and lockdown could have been prevented,” said Birgit Gerstorfer (SP) on Sunday at a press conference in front of the country house. Too few test options, too few vaccination options and a broken contact person management, this is the sad result in Upper Austria. These have now led to the ster-range lockdown, concludes Gerstorfer: “For us it will always be the Stelzer lockdown because the difficulties began here. Since the governor no longer has the situation under control, he has to “make room for an independent pandemic expert and crisis manager” in the state government. Felix Eypeltauer (Neos) also agreed: “Stelzer has made pandemic management a top priority and has failed in this task.” That is why he had to “make room in the state government”. So both formulated a somewhat complicated request to resign. Only to Stelzer, not to Christine Haberlander (VP), who is responsible for the state of health, as Eypeltauer explained: “Stelzer made the decisions.”
The list of wrong decisions that Gerstorfer and Eypeltauer accuse the governor is long:
The fact that the wave could not be foreseen in this intensity was “sheer nonsense”, and they simply did not prepare. In addition, Stelzer had taken a “politically calculated risk” in order not to endanger the election campaign and not to upset the Upper Austrians with unpleasant messages. The staging and party politics were above all else. The governor looked for the “wrong partner” after the election. The FP behaves “uncooperatively”, which is what the announcement of LH-Deputy. Manfred Haimbuchner (FP) shows how to combat compulsory vaccination with “all legal measures”. Stelzer reacted “too late and wrongly”. Nor can one trust that there will now be professional crisis management, because the crisis team has been set up as a party-political body. Even the pandemic managers at official level would not be heard and voted over.
Expeltauer finally came up with drastic words: “The Upper Austrians feel ripped off. And they were also ripped off by the governor and the federal government. ”As examples, he cited the statement by ex-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (VP) that we were going to have a“ cool time ”, and Stelzer’s statement that there were enough intensive care beds.
Gerstorfer and Eypeltauer emphasized that it is now necessary to use the weeks of the lockdown to force vaccination and test offers and get contact tracing to work again. This is exactly what an independent crisis manager based in the state government should do.
Source From: Nachrichten
