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Someone else can figure it out.
Virologists, intensive care physicians and the Federal Minister of Health warn that the third corona wave with its new virus mutations will require tough decisions as quickly as possible.
Angela Merkel has been saying for weeks that she thinks so too.
Then Armin Laschet makes a suggestion for such a quick decision, namely the "bridge lockdown", and suddenly Merkel hesitates to agree with him.
Instead, she cancels the federal-state conference - and instead has her Vice Chancellor recommend a legislative process that can take at least a week, if not two.
Laschet agrees with the proposal.
Is the third wave on the verge of spiraling out of control?
Then every day of further political debate is one too many.
Then we need a tough lockdown now, until enough people are vaccinated and doubts about the side effects of the vaccines are dispelled.
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Or do we still have at least one, if not two weeks to discuss how the federal government can enforce uniform corona rules?
Then the past few weeks, with their emergency calls, their warnings and their urging from Merkel's and other politicians' mouths, were gradually and actually annoying scaremongering.
Is politics really coming to Potte as quickly as is necessary in the opinion of virologists and medical professionals?
Wolfgang Schäuble suggests that perhaps the Federal Infection Protection Act should be changed in such a way that the approval requirement of the Federal Council no longer applies.
His word in God's ear that this does not end in urgent applications to the courts and in an intervention by the judiciary.
Laschet says the reform of the Infection Protection Act must regulate "transnational" aspects;
His economics minister from the FDP presented easing model projects for NRW on the same day.
Everyone says something different
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FDP leader Christian Lindner supports federal regulations, but these should by no means legitimize “disproportionate” measures.
Merkel has a spokeswoman criticize Bavaria's opening models.
Bodo Ramelow protests against the cancellation of the Bund-Länder-Round.
And this is how the third corona wave should be broken?
It looks more like Merkel has triggered a new wave of chaos in politics.
An amendment to the law may come by the week after next, but it will not yet reliably resolve the contradiction between medical urgency and political legal certainty in a state.
Ensuring this is a major task for Merkel's successor and the next Bundestag.