Haeme is not appropriate for people who have contracted the coronavirus. And assigning blame to certain groups doesn’t get us any further.
“Great, the Viennese are driving up the statistics again!” Or also: “Sure, the Serbs are bringing Corona back to Austria!” You can now read messages like this quite often on social media or hear them in some conversations. And it’s also a typically human response – you tend to blame a circumstance on a different group as possible.
Austria even has a reflex – complaining about the high corona numbers in other countries and at the same time showing their own country as the only safe haven. Any further infection quickly turns into a malicious attack from abroad. In the internal variant, you know it when a finger is pointed at Vienna from the federal states – and vice versa, Viennese grin a bit maliciously in cases like Ischgl or St. Wolfgang.
Alone, one should be careful about assigning blame. Of course, there are official failures in many places that have promoted the spread of the virus – out of incompetence or because other interests, such as the tourism industry, apparently played a greater role. And there are probably individual people or groups who have behaved carelessly or even negligently.
But ultimately it is about people who (more or less severely) suffer from an illness. And today we should be so far that pointing fingers, malice or “your own fault” are not the reaction of choice. With alcohol or drug addicts, but also with HIV-positive people, we’ve meanwhile made it halfway.
So, let’s save ourselves blame in certain directions, whether it is young Croatian vacationers, Serbian returnees from visiting relatives or general residents of a city or region that is currently particularly badly affected by Corona.
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