Some call a crisis a crisis, for others it is a catastrophe. Still others see in the crisis a war that can become a catastrophe. In light of this, there are more important problems in the world than the crises of psychology or the debate over cancel culture. This is a trivial observation. “The real problems of our time […] consist in war, violence, hunger, disease, and environmental disasters,” as Paul Feyerabend writes. Neither those who got vaccinated nor those who did not could have known about long-Covid symptoms during the pandemic. Absurd nonetheless was the fact that the anxious and the vaccine skeptics were narrow-mindedly lumped together with those who, for political and conspiratorial reasons, took to the streets and social media against vaccination campaigns and political anti-Corona measures, ranting about a Corona dictatorship. Study results suggest that the former do not necessarily think, feel, and act like the latter. Setting aside some absurdities and asking what remains after the Corona pandemic. Well, first of all, the memories of school closures, contact bans, blocked park benches, closed restaurants, existential worries of freelance artists, and the dying in hospitals, nursing homes, and in one’s own four walls, etc. A higher degree of pluralism in health policy as well as greater inclusion of non-scientific perspectives during the pandemic would have been desirable, both for epistemological and political reasons. “After all, citizens are not ignorant.”

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Corona—Scandal, Crisis, Catastrophe

  • Wolfgang Frindte

摘要

Some call a crisis a crisis, for others it is a catastrophe. Still others see in the crisis a war that can become a catastrophe. In light of this, there are more important problems in the world than the crises of psychology or the debate over cancel culture. This is a trivial observation. “The real problems of our time […] consist in war, violence, hunger, disease, and environmental disasters,” as Paul Feyerabend writes. Neither those who got vaccinated nor those who did not could have known about long-Covid symptoms during the pandemic. Absurd nonetheless was the fact that the anxious and the vaccine skeptics were narrow-mindedly lumped together with those who, for political and conspiratorial reasons, took to the streets and social media against vaccination campaigns and political anti-Corona measures, ranting about a Corona dictatorship. Study results suggest that the former do not necessarily think, feel, and act like the latter. Setting aside some absurdities and asking what remains after the Corona pandemic. Well, first of all, the memories of school closures, contact bans, blocked park benches, closed restaurants, existential worries of freelance artists, and the dying in hospitals, nursing homes, and in one’s own four walls, etc. A higher degree of pluralism in health policy as well as greater inclusion of non-scientific perspectives during the pandemic would have been desirable, both for epistemological and political reasons. “After all, citizens are not ignorant.”