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I would like to recommend a classic children's book to the Chancellor.
That seems appropriate to me because, firstly, I have the impression that she rarely gets around to reading literature.
And secondly, Angela Merkel has been speaking to us citizens the way one speaks to children for some time.
The poster campaigns of their health minister (“My discipline is our best medicine”) are reminiscent of earlier commandments for the next generation: “We young pioneers study hard, are orderly and disciplined!” Financed with adult taxes.
Anyway, the relevant book is called "The King of Narnia".
It was published in 1949 and was penned by Cambridge professor CS Lewis (“Follow the science!”, I can only say).
In the story - which is of course a fairy tale, you have to try to understand the symbolic meaning - four children enter the magical realm of Narnia through a wardrobe without a back wall.
There are talking animals, slightly unreliable fauns (these are similar beings to Jens Spahn), dwarfs, giants and the like.
But there's a curse in the country: it's always winter there - and Christmas never comes.
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This is the fault of the White Witch who flash frozen the country.
She likes it that nothing moves, that nothing grows or blooms anymore.
Anyone who opposes it, who expresses even a critical thought or even celebrates a party, will be betrayed by its informers.
The witch petrifies whoever is reported.
But in the end all your efforts are in vain.
The arrival of the children in Narnia has awakened spring, the primal forces of nature and life cannot be suppressed with ordinances, one cannot petrify an entire country and expect to get away with it.
The early bloomers break through the thawing earth without any official opening of the garden centers, the brooks murmur again, the talking animals celebrate parties and Santa Claus is still coming, although the calendar is already approaching Easter.
EU wants to introduce corona vaccination pass by summer
In three months, Europe should get a uniform vaccination certificate.
The EU summit agreed on this.
The Chancellor agreed, but pointed out a few hurdles.
Whether the passport is linked to freedom of travel is also controversial in the EU.
Source: WORLD / Alina Quast
Could it be that our world will now be allowed to thaw again because the most endangered of all risk groups, patients in nursing homes and the very old, will soon be vaccinated at last?
Because the death rate is falling rapidly?
And because the intensive care units are not overloaded?
“Incidences” of over 50 should no longer be allowed to freeze public life today.
Oh, what happened to the witch?
"She was defeated," says the book succinctly.