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Is the dispute about the correct Corona policy, which rages more and more violently the longer the crisis lasts, about facts?
This is how the Chancellor portrayed it last week when she spoke out sharply against all those positions that had left the "world of facts".
However, it is also part of the world of facts to question the course of the federal government, whose weaknesses in protecting risk groups can be seen in the daily death statistics.
Now, of all people, Christian Drosten, the most important informant of this government course, has written a tweet that shows that there is much more to it than just the bare facts.
"The never-ending attacks on serious scientists and the constant corruption of their statements will cost thousands more lives this winter," said Drosten's thundering prophecy on Twitter, which he concluded with a whisper with the hashtag "#SchwereSchuld".
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Serious guilt: This is a category from case law.
It originally comes from religion, but is unknown in the natural sciences.
So what is the chief virologist at the Berlin Charité thinking about?
To a corona criminal court that condemned the main representatives of the corrosive criticism after the end of the pandemic for "attacks on serious scientists" and "corrupting their statements" - yes, to what actually?
When it comes to thousands of lives, the only option for particularly serious guilt is life imprisonment.
After all, the death penalty no longer exists in Europe.
Drosten suggestively leaves open who exactly he would like to bring before his imaginary Last Judgment - but one can conclude from the context that his attack is also aimed at those scientific colleagues who have been demanding for months with good arguments that targeted measures should be taken to protect old people's homes instead of imposing new lockdowns on society as a whole.
And he probably also means those media that repeatedly offer a platform for these dissident positions.
What drives a protagonist of the German corona policy to publicly blame those who point out that this policy is not adequately suited to protect the people most threatened by the virus?
To clarify this, to quote Angela Merkel, can only be “a task for psychologists”.
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Drosten himself can only be warmly recommended to listen to the very first episode of his NDR podcast from February 26, 2020.
“We have to stop now,” says Drosten, “to turn our gaze to the outside world and finally point a finger at neighboring countries and say, they screwed up, or the mishap happened there - that's completely idle.
Nobody is to blame for anything in the face of a pandemic. ”
How right he is!
A pandemic is not about guilt.
It is, however, about taking responsibility for a strategy even if it does not lead to the goal - by correcting it on the basis of the facts.