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Stuttgart (dpa) - The new CDU federal chairman Armin Laschet has spoken out urgently against patronizing citizens in the fight against the corona pandemic.
"I still think the popular attitude is to forbid everything, to be strict, to treat citizens like underage children," said the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister at the digital New Year's reception of the Baden-Württemberg state association of the CDU Economic Council.
But that won't last forever, said Laschet.
The virus and its mutations have to be taken seriously.
But you have to come back to a balancing position.
Children who do not go to school or daycare for months may suffer lifelong damage.
Laschet warned against too one-sided focus on the incidence value.
"You can't always invent new limit values to prevent life from happening again," he said.
"We cannot measure our whole life just by incidence values."
You have to keep an eye on all the other damage to society and the economy as well as the incidence figures.
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The heads of state government and Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) had recently agreed to extend the lockdown to March 7th.
Should the so-called seven-day incidence - i.e. new infections per 100,000 inhabitants per week - steadily fall below 35, the restrictions should be gradually relaxed by the federal states - initially for retailers, museums and galleries as well as companies with body-related services.
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