I Hate Quarantine! And the Food Sucks!

I posted two videos a few days ago about an inmate uprising in an asylum facility in the German city of Halberstadt. Residents were unhappy that they had to be quarantined because of the coronavirus, and objected to the food that was being delivered to them.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for translating this article from Die Tageszeitung about the situation in Halberstadt:

Protest in refugee shelter: Rebellion against quarantine

In Halberstadt, more than 800 refugees are under quarantine. Now a group is protesting against the poor accommodation.

Berlin — “I wanted to tell you what happened here today,” says the young man from Iran, who actually has a different name, and who currently lives in the Central Contact Point for Asylum Seekers [Zentralen Anlaufstelle für Asylbewerber, ZASt] in Saxony-Anhalt, the facility where about 850 people have been quarantined since last week for positive coronavirus cases. Then, Kurdi reports, on Saturday, the mood shifted.

A few days earlier Kurdi had reported to the TAZ that it was hardly possible to keep a [social] distance in the accommodation, with the shared bathrooms and shared rooms. Now a group of residents have started a hunger strike, Kurdi said by phone on Sunday morning. At 12 o’clock they refused their food and tore down some of the fences that currently separate the three main buildings of the property. “People want to be moved elsewhere because they are afraid of getting infected,” Kurdi says. But the supply of food also played a role.

Then security people had started beating and kicking people. A pregnant woman was later taken to hospital. A large contingent of police had positioned themselves in front of the property. “They didn’t come in, they just stood at the gate,” Kurdi says.

Denise Vopel, a spokeswoman for the Saxony-Anhalt state administration office, confirmed that 100 to 150 people had “started an action” on Saturday. “Unfortunately, quarantine fences were also torn down and there was a mixture [of people] that we actually wanted to avoid.” Now the quarantine concept has to be reconsidered. The quality of the food was the “bone of contention”.

Tuna and tea bags

A photo of a plastic bag containing an unpeeled carrot, a bun, a can and a coffee-to-go mug is circulating online. (SEE PHOTO BELOW) This ration is issued twice a day, along with a “little lunch”, tweets the Pier Magdeburg. The photo shows the dinner, Kurdi confirms. Add some butter and jam, and sometimes a piece of cucumber. In the tin there is tuna; in the cup a tea bag. In the morning there is also a piece of fruit.

Because the cafeteria is closed, the food is ordered from an external service provider, explains Denise Vopel. At lunchtime there is hot food, which is served in Asietten [aluminum trays]. In the morning and in the evening there are food bags. The order with the caterer always includes fruit and vegetables as well as butter, spreads, and sausage or cheese.

In fact, there was a wrangling between refugees and security, which a pregnant woman got into the middle of. She was brought to hospital as a precaution. “No injuries were reported,” Vopel said. The woman was able to return to the property on Sunday afternoon. Six criminal charges have been filed against security personnel.

On Saturday evening, Kurdi and Vopel reported that there had been talks between the refugees and staff at the property. “Our social workers were able to instill understanding, and calm the situation relatively quickly. Luckily, the police didn’t have to intervene,” Vopel says. All demands have been accepted and efforts are being made to make the quarantine situation “as tolerable as possible” for people.

Fear of contagion

Since people cannot shop for themselves at the moment, order lists were introduced — the residents would then receive their orders in bags. Also, many residents did not approve of the action because the quarantine measures had been violated. “People are naturally afraid of contagion,” says Vopel.

Marllow Kurdi can only confirm this. “The mood here is very uneasy,” he says — and criticizes the protection measures for the refugees as inadequate. “The employees only come to us in protective clothing. They are afraid to get infected by us. But we have little opportunity to protect ourselves from contagion.” There is still a lack of soap and disinfectants. Masks were distributed, but there were not enough to change them regularly. “If someone gets infected here, the virus will spread quickly in the accommodation,” Kurdi says.

Susi Möbbeck (SPD), State Secretary in the Integration Ministry of Saxony-Anhalt, contradicted the accusation on Twitter on Saturday that there were no hygiene products. Bottlenecks at the beginning of the quarantine have now been fixed. Improvements in the hygiene of sanitation facilities had been “concretely implemented”.

A lot of information appeared not to have reached many refugees, so they could not understand the quarantine measures. “There is an urgent need to communicate this more to the refugees,” Möbbeck writes. There had been criticism of the food, but she could not confirm a hunger strike.

24 positive coronavirus tests

The quarantine in Halberstadt is “highly precarious,” tweeted Sebastian Striegel, leader of the Greens, which co-governs Saxony-Anhalt’s Kenya coalition [Black-red-green, CDU-SPD-Greens]. The measures “must be explained and designed in such a way that the residents have no fear of contagion.” The problems will be solved with care.

The ZASt refugee facility in Halberstadt has been in quarantine for about a week and a half because a resident tested positive for the virus when he was transferred. In the interim, 24 residents have tested positive, Vopel reports. These, as well as four negatively tested family members, have since been transferred to a specially set-up quarantine accommodation in Quedlinburg.

10 thoughts on “I Hate Quarantine! And the Food Sucks!

  1. I never understand why this crazy German government ( Merkel , Greens, SPD , linke ) importing and destroying same time this used to beautiful country,this savages illegally??!!, for what ? It will be any benefits from this parasites?, any job they can do? What this circus is all about? Can somebody explain to me ? Why they doing this [solid waste] to the own country and citizens, waste of money and time really..

    • Europe has less than 2,1 children.This Idiots think they can import people and the new people will be the same like the old people after some years.
      Ofcourse they are first needed for consum because the lefties of today also want every year more and more.

      Yes they do some work(a lot of parcel drivers are now arabs-even if they dont understand really german)but why working if you can get a lot more with crimes or 27 IDs?

    • Because the left(communists) are hell bent on destroying western civilization at any costs. This is why they are for open borders so these 3rd worlders can destroy us from within. They actually think that they will survive the coming Balkans on steroids to rule. Well they all are in for one heck of a brutal, nasty, bloody and brutal awaking when the fun and games begin. Democracy in it’s present form is on it’s death bed, for we cannot vote our way out of this mess any longer. It is going to take bloody mess to fix it now. What we get as a form of government is going to be a crap shoot, but one thing is almost certain, it will not be recognized from what we have today. It will be the day of the strong and ruthless men that will soon rule.

  2. If they dont like the quarantine, they can always go back to where they came from.
    The borders of Germany are open in this regard.

    • A lot of the refugees are there because they were persuaded by people smugglers that the life is rich and easy. The smugglers are interested in the commissions. The smugglers tell their clients to destroy their passports, so they can’t be sent back. Incidentally, the smugglers are probably also motivated by a fear of what their clients would do once they found out how badly the smugglers had lied to them. So, the smuggler is motivated to make sure the refugee can never come back.

    • They will only go back to where they came from at the point of a gun, nothing less will do.

  3. A lot of the refugees are there because they were persuaded by people smugglers that the life is rich and easy. The smugglers are interested in the commissions. The smugglers tell their clients to destroy their passports, so they can’t be sent back. Incidentally, the smugglers are probably also motivated by a fear of what their clients would do once they found out how badly the smugglers had lied to them. So, the smuggler is motivated to make sure the refugee can never come back.

  4. Western females need to excel at whatever they do when not attempting to destroy Christian males. Otherwise it will have to be real production while western men do what they have always excelled at. Free rides for all and sundry need to end. Children need parents. Survival depends on it.

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