You're always smarter afterwards.
The Corona daycare study last week showed that small children were not the drivers of the pandemic: they were much less likely to be infected in childcare than at home or as children at school.
Small children have suffered as a result of the closure of childcare facilities, and many are less developed in terms of motor, social, emotional and linguistic skills than their peers before the pandemic.
The day-care center closures were therefore a mistake, not in the best interest of the child - and, as the expert council stated last February, this is the top priority for measures affecting children.
Minister of Health Lauterbach and Minister for Family Affairs Paus assure accordingly that daycare centers will no longer be closed for "medical reasons" and support programs will be intensified.
You want to make up for the damage.
Who is hit hardest by the pandemic?
During the pandemic, the various containment measures have repeatedly placed an unreasonable burden on individual groups - actors and singers, restaurant owners, nursing home residents, supermarket cashiers or even office workers who had to work from home.
It makes sense to examine their respective burdens, to provide relief - and to learn from them for the future what might have gone better in detail.
But from this, as happens in "lateral thinker" circles, to deduce a failure of Corona policy again is too simple.
A pandemic affects the whole of society, regardless of whether it is a daycare child, an office worker or a resident of a nursing home.
Anyone who is still looking at individual areas in isolation has learned nothing from the pandemic.
You're always smarter afterwards - but only if you make the effort to learn something.