It's still summer, but many are already looking to autumn.

Not because they long for its blaze of color, but because they worry that they will no longer be able to go to the restaurant, stadium or cinema.

Already now more people are infected with Corona, Delta is rampant, the cold air will do the rest, and the vaccination rate is slowing.

Anyone can imagine what that means.

If the contagions explode in autumn and not enough citizens have been vaccinated by then, the hated restrictions could return.

The only question is for whom.

Chancellery Minister Helge Braun recently stated: "Vaccinated people will definitely have more freedom than unvaccinated people." Immediately a pack of alleged freedom-loving people attacked him.

The FDP vice-president Wolfgang Kubicki spoke of a "compulsory vaccination through the back door", the Deputy Prime Minister of Bavaria Hubert Aiwanger of the Free Voters of a "hunt" on all those who refused to be vaccinated.

In many places there was talk of “special rights”.

All of this is misleading.

If vaccinated people want to celebrate in a club, then you can hardly forbid them to do so.

Those who are vaccinated do not endanger themselves or others in excess.

This is not about special rights, but about exercising rights as usual.

That could be more difficult for unvaccinated people who want to go to the disco in the fall with a negative test.

Rapid tests are imprecise, in studies they only found 58 percent of all infected people without symptoms.

If someone like that dances with other unvaccinated people, many could get infected.

Suppose that Germany had an incidence of over 500 at the time. This is not wild speculation, it was so high in Great Britain a few days ago.

Would it be surprising if politicians were forced to restrict the freedoms of unvaccinated people?

Anyone can get vaccinated

That is far from compulsory vaccination. The point is to prevent so many infections that in the end there aren't people queuing up in front of the hospitals. If unvaccinated people feel pressured to take the vaccine so they can party again, that's their problem because it's not a compulsion. It's pressure. And the policy on vaccination refusals should increase that.

There used to be good reasons for the fact that rapid tests were carried out free of charge on every street corner: There was hardly any vaccine, the tests were supposed to reveal infections that no one knew about, and enable events. That's why the federal government spent hundreds of millions of euros on it. Because there was no other way. Things are different now. Anyone can get vaccinated, even in supermarket parking lots. So why should the federal government continue to subsidize nose sticks?

Only a few people in the country are denied vaccination, for example because they are sick.

The tests can still be made available to them free of charge.

You should pay everyone else yourself.

Those who are too comfortable to get vaccinated enjoy their freedom at the expense of the general public.

He endangers others because he doesn't care whether they get infected, in short: he acts selfishly.

Everyone is allowed to do this, but it should not be rewarded as well.

The fact that even such demands are drowned out by a cacophony of criticism shows how well Germany is doing when it comes to pandemic issues.

It has dulled some politicians' sense of reality.

This will sharpen again if the numbers rise massively in autumn.

But then it is quite late to counteract with vaccinations.