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That the players and supervisors of Holstein Kiel are in the arms after the spectacular victory over Bayern Munich, that games at the handball world championship are only canceled when a team can simply no longer muster enough uninfected athletes for the ARD to broadcast cross-country skiing live As if mass starts in the pandemic winter were the most normal thing in the world: All of this conveys a beautiful, calming normality in the most abnormal of all winters.
At least among non-sports fans, who must also be there, a disruptive feeling will arise: Why is something like this possible when I have to explain to my children every day that they are not allowed to go to school and not to training, and to grandma and grandpa certainly not?
Why is there such obvious and blatant inequality of treatment?
When freedom leaves, justice flees immediately afterwards, this is not a new insight.
But what is being practiced in Germany after a year of the corona pandemic amounts to a newly formed class society.
It starts with the rules that apply, before which everyone is no longer equal.
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The sight of children on sledges leads within days to the draconian 15-kilometer leash, on which even the most innocent in high-incidence areas is now put.
On the other hand, as on Sunday afternoon at BER in Berlin, hundreds of passengers can bump into the customs control, and airport operators such as the federal police just shrug their shoulders indifferently afterwards.
How much else does not matter: dysfunctional learning platforms for distance teaching, a hip-stiff warning app, chaotic vaccination logistics, inadequate protection systems for homes.
Not even the counting will work: Less than 48 hours before the all-important new Prime Minister's Conference with the Chancellor, Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate did not manage to report more than a fraction of their newly identified corona cases on Sunday.
And instead of first applying the applicable rules evenly, only new ones are invented, even more brutal ones, which then in fact only apply to those who do not know first-class lobbyists on their side.
Politically, this is the easier way, especially since you can now divert attention from the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of your own actions thanks to the threatening virus variants.
It is a bitter irony that the Federal Police, subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior, themselves rolled out the red carpet B.1.1.7 and his siblings.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 200 aircraft from Great Britain and South Africa have received special permits to land in Germany.
Did the many thousands of passengers keep to the quarantine after arrival?
At least in the capital, you don't know, it is only checked sporadically, according to the motto: The main thing is that the daycare centers stay tight and the sleds in the basement.