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This step-by-step plan for exiting the corona lockdown is a disturbing document in contemporary history.
It's disturbing because in reality it isn't.
The federal states will not follow him to the letter, the prime ministers will ensure that on principle.
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But even if they wanted to, the plan will never be implemented as intended.
The constant hustle and bustle of openings and closings will prove completely impractical and undermine rather than promote acceptance among citizens.
The plan feigns a reliability that will not exist in the Corona reality.
The opening plan is also not appropriate.
To make a finely chiseled control of public life dependent on a single, extremely rough indicator, the seven-day incidence: that just doesn't fit together.
The dynamics of the infection process are too complex for that;
for that, the current situation differs too much from that in autumn - after all, almost every second person in the particularly vulnerable group with the “highest priority” has already received an initial vaccination.
Olaf Gersemann criticizes Angela Merkel: "The plan pretends a reliability that will not exist in the Corona reality"
Source: AP Photo / Markus Schreiber;
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An incidence of 50 now results in far fewer serious illnesses and deaths than it did before the vaccination campaign began in late December.
50 is therefore not 50, even if the Prime Minister and Chancellor persistently signal it.
It cannot be assumed that clever people like the Chancellor and her Chancellor's ministers would not be aware of all of this.
Rather, one has the impression that defiance reigns here: “You citizens, you business representatives absolutely want a mechanistic plan with a rigid automatic opening system?
Then take this!
You will see what you get out of it. "
Viewed in this way, this step-by-step plan could be a testament to resignation: you tried differently, but ultimately had to bow.
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Or the calculation is different: "Now let's try a step-by-step plan, see how it fails, and then continue as before."
That would be very cynical, a testament to the alienation of the electorate and political leadership.
And then the step-by-step plan would be all the more: a disturbing document of contemporary history.
"Now loosen up and hope that the tests will come, that's exactly the wrong way round"
Quick tests should be the game changer, but now it is said: Not enough have been ordered.
To loosen up without having enough test options is the wrong way for Greens boss Robert Habeck.
The government is too complicated, too slow and behind the wave.
Source: WORLD / Felicia Pochhammer