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The discussion had started by Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU).
He said that there could be no Easter holiday in Germany this year.
Because too much mobility would destroy the success in fighting pandemics.
Numerous colleagues responded, some with far more optimistic forecasts.
They raised hopes that travel restrictions would be eased for Easter.
The federal government has not yet committed itself.
Last year, there were strict travel and exit restrictions at Easter.
Now it turns out - the topic has not yet been fully discussed.
Five pandemic experts answered the question in “Die Zeit”: “Will you be traveling on Easter?”, Including the Frankfurt virologist Sandra Ciesek.
She replied: "I have not planned a trip."
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Christian Karagiannidis becomes even clearer.
The intensive care doctor from the lung clinic Cologne-Merheim replied to the question that he would "in no case" travel.
"We have to continue working with great concentration until the summer, until we have achieved enough with the vaccination."
"Actively control" the virus
The Braunschweig virologist Melanie Brinkmann also stated that she did not see the opportunity to travel “at the moment”.
"But I haven't given up hope of a summer vacation in Germany."
Brinkmann also confesses that she was annoyed about the supposed Corona wisdom to be able to live with the virus.
"We will not eradicate this virus, but we can actively control it and thus avoid high death rates, illness, consequential damage, fear and grief - and thus also get out of the permanent lockdown," said Brinkmann.
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Only two of the respondents were rather vague about the question of Easter leave.
Alena Buyx, medical ethicist at the Technical University of Munich and chairwoman of the German Ethics Council, said that it depends on the situation whether she will travel at Easter.
And Viola Priesemann, physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, stated that she “probably won't” travel.
According to Brinkmann, it is currently a matter of “more efficient contact tracking, entry rules, test strategies”; these are the prerequisites for further relaxation.
When will life return to normal?
"As soon as we control the pandemic and the virus no longer controls us," says Brinkmann.
But she has "the feeling that something is moving - a certain impotence gives way to activity."
And Ciesek also says that thanks to the vaccinations she feels more optimistic again.
Her prognosis: “If everyone can be offered a vaccination, life will slowly return to normal.” However, the emerging countries should not be forgotten.