SecondThere are very few people who can’t wear a mask-one of them is Karin Attner. The 62-year-old woman had to go through some traumas that were too intimate to mention specifically. In the past, every time she tried to wear a mask, the memory of it would come back, and she panicked. On the last attempt, she passed out in a shop. She told the incident very publicly to her conversation partner Christopher Holiday, who established contact with her through Zoom from Chemnitz. IT manager Attner sits at her kitchen table in Berlin.
Public holidays are a supporter of the mask requirement, and he is not restricted by this or other corona regulations in his daily life. “Personally, whether I approach someone within 1 meter or 5 meters, it has no impact on my quality of life,” he said.
As far as the distance rule is concerned, Atner agrees with her interlocutor.However, she believes that distance alone is enough to protect herself and others from coronavirus protect. She thinks that people like her who cannot wear masks are considered too little. She said she wanted to see a doctor without a nose and mouth protection device, but was referred by the clinic.
In other places, she was also insulted for not wearing a mask. Attner criticized the fact that politics has not yet provided a substitute for masks for people like her. “For me, going somewhere and saying that I can dispense with the mask requirement is a test of courage,” she said. This is why her life now is largely withdrawn and asks other people to go shopping.
She suspects that masks can really protect
To this end, Karin Attner began to look for people who also had difficulty complying with measures such as mask requirements; whether for health reasons or personal beliefs. She said that this exchange reminded her of this. “What kind of thinking?” asked the public holiday. “Think about how useful these measures are,” she replied. She suspects that masks can really protect. Attner reported that her father had chronic lung disease, and she was more concerned about whether he could wear a mask on his mouth to get enough air, rather than whether he would infect others.
Public holidays disagree with Attner’s opinion. “I think Ms. Merkel and all those responsible are protected because they saw 84 million,” he said. Inevitably, there will be situations where individual circumstances cannot be considered. Holiday revealed that he is a recognized CDU voters and a fan of the Prime Minister. As she herself said, Atner “more comes from the left green corner.” Angela Merkel Taking action in a refugee crisis is the only thing she is satisfied with her policy.
Holiday expressed understanding of Attner’s situation. He knows what it feels like as a human being. He was born with the so-called “open back”, technically called spina bifida. Due to his disability, he already received a disability pension at the age of 34. “That’s why I am grateful to live in a country like Germany, where I don’t have to pay for every visit to a doctor and every treatment,” he said. Even in other highly developed countries such as the United States, this is not the case. Attner agreed: “We actually have one of the last social systems in the world.”
Like good friends
Although the two discussants met on the screen for the first time that night, they were part of the “German Talk”, but they did not look like strangers, but like acquaintances. They all made it clear that they were interested in the other’s point of view and did not try to convince them of their own point of view.
“What do you think of the fact that scientists also hold different opinions?” Atner asked bluntly. “I don’t take them seriously,” Holiday replied, referring to the controversial doctor Suchari BakdiHe believes that his argument is neither logical nor verifiable, and therefore extremely problematic. The holidays cannot do anything to the perspective of the horizontal thinker. “Freedom always includes responsibility,” he said. These people often lack it. In his view, many people “oppose” without weighing the arguments.
