The compulsory test when entering Germany is the first weight measure that is directed against vaccination fatigue.
It can also be read as an incentive for children from the age of twelve to be vaccinated.
That, in turn, would not be so urgent if it were ensured that infected children and adolescents cannot cause new infections.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the tried and tested means has also been known to everyone: mass vaccination of adults.
The obligation to test is the admission of the federal and state governments that their strategy has not worked.
Weeks ago the German public was still foaming because there was too little vaccine, the ampoules are now being returned and a ludicrous dispute has broken out about how herd immunity can still be achieved - one day.
That fits into the populist calculation
The reason for this disappointment is described in one word: stubbornness.
He rules the unwilling who say to themselves that everyone else may please follow them.
He also governs the politicians who cannot bring themselves to compulsory vaccination and instead have to create incentives that amount to the same thing, but offer one target after another.
This is how it will now also be for the compulsory test.
Some will moan and moan, others will scold "the politicians".
AfD politicians and Hubert Aiwanger, for whom the freedom of their voters is not important, but their populist calculation, build on such dissatisfaction;
in the case of the top candidate Aiwanger: entry into the Bundestag.
Markus Söder has to be “worried” about it because he shouldn't let himself be fooled around on such a question in his cabinet.
But should he terminate the coalition shortly before the general election?
Not even his own candidate for Chancellor shows too much leadership to steer the vaccination regime in the right direction. That will somehow be sorted out in autumn, said Armin Laschet recently. However, there is no reason to hope that the Chancellor Party will experience a summer fairy tale before the federal election.