These measures "most likely made the situation worse," Wittkowski argued in an interview with Spiked this week.

"[S]hutting down schools, driving the economy against the wall — there was no reason for it," Wittkowski said. "The only reason that this nonsense now goes on and on, and people are inventing things like this ‘second wave,’ which is going to force us to change society and never live again, is that the politicians are afraid of admitting an error."

"People need to ask the government for an explanation," he said. "It is the government that has to justify what it is doing.