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How beautiful it was just a few days ago when it was getting light earlier and earlier!
A bright spot in times of lack of contact when fetching bread rolls, vaccination jams and incidence-controlled curfews.
Now it should get darker again in the morning - thanks to the Europe-wide summer time.
It has long been clear that the practical arguments for changing the clock twice a year are no longer valid.
But even on this extremely manageable problem, the European Union has not been able to come to a unanimous decision for years.
Now, in addition to the symptoms caused by the pandemic, such as listlessness and aimless aggressiveness in unity with esoteric lateral thinking, further doses of tiredness, exhaustion and bad mood will be added.
The end of the time change was long since a done deal
In a Europe-wide survey, 84 percent of the participants were in favor of ending the change between summer and winter time.
EU President Juncker promised to implement the people's wishes.
But nothing came of it.
Source: WELT / Matthias Herreiner
Once again, the established biorhythm is disrupted, which will put even more stress on politicians who are deprived of sleep: one hour less sleep until the next Corona summit, which will probably take place before Easter.
Speaking of which: Karl Lauterbach, Professor Sauerbruch of Epidemiology, will now have a harder time enforcing curfews from 8 p.m.
Then it is still bright day.
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Another collateral damage: As in every March, millions of people will argue about whether the clock should be set an hour forward or back.
Countless people who want to meet on Sunday at the world clock on Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Cologne Cathedral or Frankfurt's Römerberg will be an hour too late.
We don't need this time change twice a year.
Let's just leave it.