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Will the lockdown continue after January 10th?

Perhaps, some politicians suggest;

probably even into February or March, others suggest.

It looks to the audience again as if politicians are undecided, as if they have rashly set the likely end of the Christmas and New Year's Eve lockdown to a date that is far too early.

Can't the politicians finally put their heads together and order the lockdown until the numbers are low, instead of always organizing these four-week jumps up to the next Merkel round with the prime ministers?

Protection against unlimited restrictions on fundamental rights

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No, they cannot and do not want to - because they are not allowed to.

The four-week cycle is laid down in the amended Infection Protection Act - expressly with the aim of checking again and again whether all restrictions on fundamental rights are really still necessary or whether they can be relaxed.

The examination gives the Bundestag the opportunity to have a say and prevents fundamental rights restrictions from being uttered indefinitely.

Because such restrictions are by no means self-evident, not even in times of pandemic.

Thanks to Corona, nobody should get the impression that things are going quite well even without full basic rights.

Nobody should think that one can suspend fundamental rights for something other than a medical cause without having to give an account of the measures very soon.

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Of course, this can be confusing at times in a pandemic.

Of course, it can look as if politics were poking around in the fog and would rather go in circles all the time than come up with a fundamental decision.

Especially if a new four-week lockdown is justified with different numbers or arguments than the previous one.

Even in times of epidemics, arguments for and against the restrictions are just as important as the restrictions themselves. It is much better to make a cash fall every four weeks than to say: We'll shut everything down until we decide in solitary authority that Corona is over.

"In the third quarter we will be able to offer everyone a vaccination"

An extension of the current lockdown beyond January 10th is becoming increasingly likely.

The vaccinations have started, but are scarce at first.

The Union and the SPD are already in agreement that there should be no privileges for vaccinated people.

Source: WORLD