When enlightened citizens in Heidelberg are no longer allowed to leave their house after 9 p.m., they ask themselves what has happened to their civil rights. The restrictions on basic rights, unprecedented in the post-war history of the Federal Republic of Germany, have made the question of citizens' longing for freedom existential. The longer the deprivation of liberty goes on, the more drastic the tendency not to accept it becomes. Especially when the federal government and prime minister carelessly refuse to accept responsibility for the course of the pandemic.