Poor government!
Just now she had to explain in a mantra-like manner why the “Lockdown Light” is the right strategy to fight the pandemic - even if you are putting livelihoods at risk.
“The measures that we are now taking,” the Chancellor announced on October 29, in a self-confident indicative, “are suitable, necessary and proportionate.” Now things are looking completely different again.
The "easy" lockdown is no longer good, a "hard" one should be, as Angela Merkel now explained in the Bundestag.
Was there a correction to the old statement that was supposed to reassure the courts at the time? Has an error been admitted? No, nothing like that. From the point of view of politics, their tailor-made strategy only failed because of the citizens.