Berlin is going wild.

I'm worried.

Environmentalists have just protested there by sitting on the A 100 and blocking traffic on the city freeway.

You can do that.

But you don't have to.

According to Kevin Kühnert, SPD, it's not the evil owner of capital that the workers are supposed to strike in the fight for better working conditions.

No, on the A 100 it hits "the nurse" who - herself a victim of capitalism - drives to work by car, where she saves other people's lives.

For example, opponents of vaccination who walk elsewhere on Berlin sidewalks.

Bettina Weiguny

Freelance author in the business section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper.

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Now the question arises as to whether Kühnert is referring to the very nurse whose parking space at the Charité is also what the Berlin Senator for the Interior is worried about.

So the nurse who can't afford the Berlin rents, which is why she's moving to the country, where there are neither buses nor bank branches and the corner shop has closed because of Corona.

Which is why she needs the car for which the Greens would like to cut the commuter allowance and the city would like to increase parking fees.

Is it the nurse we clapped for at the start of the pandemic?

Who was possibly missing because of the sit-in in Dahlem to save an 81-year-old cyclist who was run over by a truck?

A Berlin CDU member and obvious opponent of cycling tweeted about this tragic accident: "I'll tell you how it probably happens: the truck driver waited until he could drive onto the street.

He then drove off, at the same time the cyclist came, and as so often, she had to get past the truck that was already driving off.

Stupid.” Yes, really stupid, these 81-year-old pushers on their racing bikes.

Or e-bikes.

She must have hit the driver's cab with her fist, this snotty young lady.

Now I'll tell you what's likely to happen next: Our Berlin nurse is fed up, puts on a gray sweater and cycles to BER to fly to the front in Ukraine as a volunteer.

But no plane is coming.

This is Berlin.