Good evening,
do you know felt truths? Visit to the dentist. Duration: ten minutes. But it feels like an eternity. Or the way home: all traffic lights show "red". Of course only feels. In reality, we have just generously overlooked the green signs. Or let's think back to July. It felt like a summer month without a summer. Instead: continuous rain. With a bit of distance, less emotionalism and after evaluating all the statistics, FAZ editor Peter Badenhop, our weather specialist, comes to the conclusion that July was not as bad as many believe. More like a pretty average month. Even tends to be too dry. 60 millimeters of rain per square meter fell in Frankfurt in July, the long-term normal value is 63 millimeters. After all, there were 222.8 hours of sunshine,the usual mean is 224.4. That's not even a one percent deviation.
Marie Lisa Kehler
Deputy head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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So, the matter of feelings is settled. Not to trust them seems advisable. Better to look at statistics and numbers. Or maybe not? The health ministers of the federal states held another meeting today, Tuesday. Also about the question of whether restrictions on public life will no longer depend so heavily on the number of new infections in the future. Instead, a kind of traffic light system could be introduced that takes into account not only the incidence, but also the vaccination rate and the burden on the health system. However, the ministers were not yet completely in agreement on what that might look like. This is different with this topic: Free citizen tests will probably no longer be available from October 11th. This rule does not apply to people who cannot be vaccinated, for example because they are pregnant.
There was criticism of the project even before the ministers even met. FDP General Secretary Moritz Promny fears that fewer people will be tested if the rapid tests are no longer free. Janine Wissler (Die Linke), parliamentary group leader in the Hessian state parliament, warns that a general vaccination appeal is not enough. Instead, more low-threshold and decentralized vaccination offers are needed.
In Weiterstadt, the clean-up work at the Graefenhausen-Ost service area has now started. On Monday morning a driver raced into the gas station at 150 km / h. There he met a pillar of the roof. The car immediately went up in flames, the driver was killed in his burning car. The police are currently assuming that the man wanted to take his own life. The rest stop will probably remain closed for some time. The main building could be protected by the intervention of the fire brigade. But nothing is left of the gas pumps. Because motorists who pass the rest stop have to brake sharply to get an idea of the scene of the accident, a site fence should be erected as soon as possible, as the FAZ learned in an on-site conversation with the employee responsible for fire restoration.This is to prevent dangerous situations on the motorway and another accident.
In addition, the Nassauisch Heimstätte and the GWH are operating development aid in Namibia +++ the DB train drivers are on strike from Wednesday to Friday.
S-Bahn trains could also be affected by the strike.
VGF and traffiQ will increase the capacities on Frankfurt's subway lines on both days +++ PepsiCo wants to switch to plastic bottles made of recycled PET material by the turn of the year +++ the Frankfurt health department of Eintracht has for the first home game in Deutsche Bank Park against the FC Augsburg approved a capacity of 25,000 spectators on Saturday, August 21.
Stay healthy,
Marie Lisa Kehler
The
weather
for
Wednesday
Most of the time the sun is shining and it stays dry.
Highs around 28 degrees.
At night it cools down to 15 degrees.
Have
your birthday
on
Wednesday 11th August
Helmut Kuhn
(CDU), former Lord Mayor of Hanau (90);
Hans-Peter Reichmann
, archive director at the German Film Institute and Film Museum, Frankfurt from 1996 to May 2021 (66);
Peter Voss-Fels
, from 2003 to March 2021 General Secretary of the Hessian Farmers' Association, Friedrichsdorf (66);
Marie-Luise Wolff
, CEO of the energy supplier Entega, Vice-President of the Darmstadt Chamber of Commerce (63);
Nawid Khaladj
, Medical Director of the Darmstadt Clinic (46);
Anish Taneja
, President of the Northern Europe Region of the tire manufacturer Michelin, Frankfurt (43).