Angela Merkel was always credited with being able to think things through from the end.

Like “driving on sight”, this has always been described as a core element of their way of government - regardless of the fact that this is a certain contradiction.

Merkel is maintaining "on-sight driving" in a downright stoic way, especially during the pandemic.

On the other hand, she completely refuses to “think from the end” at the moment.

In the preliminary paper of the Chancellery for the Bund-Länder-Round, the topic of vaccinations appears in more detail and only very superficially. This focus may come as a surprise in view of the serious problems of the German vaccination campaign.