Anyone who has spent the last two years on another planet can get the impression that almost nothing has happened in the fight against corona: In old people's and nursing homes there are again blanket bans on visits, which is why relatives are sounding the alarm.
The obligation to work from home or work in an office is being discussed in companies.
And the news is once again talking about record incidences.
All of this leads to the question: Is the so-called Freedom Day really such a good idea?
Of course it is. Because, and this is a knowledge that has been chewed through a hundred times, everything is very different than in March 2020. Anyone who wants is double or triple vaccinated.
Very, very few people cannot protect themselves for health reasons.
It is therefore appropriate to relax the rules from March 20th and to limit ourselves to “basic protection”.
The virus is not declared a private matter, but a matter of personal responsibility.
That's a good thing, because the vast, often silent, majority of people have learned over the past two years to be considerate of friends, family, and co-workers.
The only sensible way out of the crisis is to turn these well-practised rules into unwritten law.
This is particularly important in the workplace.
In many places, employees are now being called back to the offices.
But of course there is hardly a responsible boss who forces colleagues who feel physically or mentally unarmed into an open-plan office overnight.
But it must also be clear that society as a whole can no longer be unreservedly considerate of the unvaccinated minority, who refuse to follow suit and who have received far too much attention in recent months.
The world has other problems than getting involved with conspiracy theorists and esotericists.
Compared to the risk of having to start the discussion again next fall, compulsory vaccination is the lesser of two evils.