One is almost tempted to use the election campaign as a mitigating circumstance in order not to accuse the politicians who are now coming around the corner with all kinds of contradicting Corona suggestions.
Hamburg's First Mayor Peter Tschentscher even thinks he knows that we will have overcome the pandemic by the end of the year at the latest.
The contrary opinion is also quickly found: The chairman of the World Medical Association expects that we will never get rid of Corona and that masks will remain part of our everyday lives.
The SPD man Tschentscher was previously part of the “Team Caution”.
Not any longer longer?
Maybe it is, but the election campaign is the time of promises - only that doesn't get along with the course of a pandemic.
Nobody knows what will be the end of the year.
And no politician should be sure that the strategy gets caught up in naming specific end dates.
So far, the “Team Caution” has been quite successful.
The vaccination raises high hopes, no doubt.
It's the only way out of the pandemic.
The end of the corona-related restrictions must also be discussed.
Not only medical factors should play a role in their assessment, however heavy they may be.
Here, too, it must be about moderation and moderation.
What happens when that is lost can be seen at the European Championships.
There, UEFA ran its very own election campaign.