The health crisis due to the Covid-19 epidemic has worsened in recent days in Germany.
It is all the more worrying in the lands and other territories ruled by the extreme right, as in the small town of Bautzen, in Saxony, in the east of the country.
Nursing staff, already overwhelmed, must also face the demonstrations of anti-masks.
In Germany, schools and stores deemed non-essential close on Wednesday, for at least three weeks.
Currently the incidence rate is 176 per 100,000 inhabitants, against 130 in France.
In question, the surge of cases in the eastern regions of the country, as in Saxony where the curve is exponential.
The situation is "out of control" for the health authorities in some very specific districts: all strongholds of the extreme right.
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"We are being insulted," Katharina says.
This nurse from Bautzen, Saxony, is demoralized.
His unit is overloaded and is losing the fight to the virus.
But in addition to taking care of the sick, she has to fight with visitors to the hospital, families: "every day it's the same discussion, so that people put on the mask, it makes me so sad" .
Conspiracy demonstrations without barrier gestures
The small town holds a double record.
It has the highest incidence rate in Germany at 641 and is also the constituency where the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won the most votes in the last election.
"The main purpose of the mask is to impress people, reminding them every day that there is a terrible virus circulating. But this terrible virus, in my opinion, does not exist," said MP Karsten. Hilse, elected with 37% of the vote.
His party protests every week alongside anti-mask conspirators.
These gatherings, without barrier gestures, accelerate the epidemic, as on November 21 in Leipzig.
"One of the organizers was intubated eight days later," points out Dr Josten, who heads the largest university hospital in the region.
In the west, the same phenomenon is observed: the cities most affected by the virus are systematically those where the AfD exceeds 20%.