The "fear-based policy" against which the fearless FDP parliamentary group leader Wolfgang Kubicki railed with a view to the next pandemic future will not have to be feared - or hoped for by those who prefer to be cautious.
The state manages, it no longer fights the virus with all its might.
The question is not what could be done and what should be systematically ramped up - keyword: ventilation, monitoring, vaccination campaigns - what is asked is what can be left out.
Kubicki apparently also considers the question of when and how infection protection may have to be ramped up again to be superfluous.
Taking precautions - prevention - is, you have to know, to a certain extent Kubicki's political concern.
In the traffic light agreement, the coalition partners and thus his party documented thirty-three times how modern prevention is considered: in the fight against escalating health care costs and pensions, against extremism, racism, child abuse, against environmental crises and catastrophes in general.
There is even an announcement for a national prevention plan.
However, before this could possibly be realized and with it what Kubicki once described in the "liberal portal" as his personal horror of the "nanny state" and the idea of "errant do-gooders", he probably does not want to stop all progress in this direction to torpedo.
The strategy for his flippant "Don't be afraid" shows just how unsuitable the pandemic policy is for this.
Even before the Council of Experts set up for this purpose was able to present its assessment of possible changes in the Infection Protection Act, which is expected at the end of this month, Kubicki is driving science ahead of him with the cheap hint that increasing infection protection again "without evidence" is no longer an option.
Political coercion of this kind was already encroaching on the Standing Vaccination Commission.
In the case of pandemic prevention, they give cause for concern beyond Corona.