Good evening,
In the crisis is before the crisis: How much it helps to be well connected was shown in several ways in Hesse during the waves of the corona pandemic.
Before the outbreak of the corona pandemic, the fact that all clinics would pull together seemed a utopia, writes our author in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
After all, these are also business enterprises that compete with one another.
Helmut Schwan
Head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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However, after a planning team had been established under the umbrella of the Ministry of Social Affairs in spring 2020 to coordinate the distribution of corona patients in the hospitals, it was possible to avoid overloading the houses.
With the support of the University Medical Center network, the planning team prepares forecasts for the individual hospitals, showing how many patients they will have to be prepared for in the coming week.
Lives can be saved through cooperation and coordination, is the interim conclusion drawn by Minister of Social Affairs Kai Klose and the head of the planning staff, Jürgen Graf, in an interview with editor Marie Lisa Kehler.
Graf, who is also medical director and chairman of the board of the Frankfurt University Hospital, says: "This is a model that can be thought of for medical crises of all kinds".
Nobody can say in advance how strong the fourth wave of the pandemic will be.
In any case, the phase of relative relaxation must be used.
Folk festivals, which had a rather dusty image before Corona, are suddenly places of pure joie de vivre again.
Editor Alexander Jürgs and photographer Michael Braunschädel took a look around at the Frankfurt Dippemess.
There the showmen are downright euphoric.
But the industry's fears about existence are far from gone.
Because the Dippemess had to be canceled three times because of the pandemic, each time the showmen had hoped that it might work after all, each time they were disappointed.
Now the carousels are allowed to turn again, now the “Alpine Coaster” rattles again, the “Gladiator” catapults people into the air.
Now there's popcorn, sticky cotton candy and roasted almonds again.
What everyone can contribute to make things better, this idea is also gaining more and more friends in environmental protection.
The latest trend:
Selling bulk groceries.
On the consumer page of the Rhein-Main-Zeitung, Hanna Koban investigates whether this also works with liquid soap and shampoo.
The Hessian organic grocer Alnatura is testing this in some branches, but supermarket chains have also set up appropriate stands. Marlen Richter, one of the managing directors of the bulk store “Die Auffüllerei” in Frankfurt, reports that there is particularly high demand for liquid cleaning agents. However, solid shampoo is more popular than liquid.
In addition
, the state government's plans to soon allow restaurateurs and hairdressers in Hesse to receive only those who have recovered and who have been completely vaccinated as customers and guests are met with skepticism
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in the branches of
Klaus Theweleit, critic of the philosopher, in the Paulskirche Theodor W. Adorno Prize received
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the city of Taunusstein wants to organize and radically change its forest and game management itself in the future.
A climate-stable permanent forest should grow.
Take care of yourself
Yours Helmut Schwan
The
weather
for Monday: After the morning fog, the Rhine-Main region can expect a predominantly friendly and dry day with temperatures of up to 26 degrees.
Birthday
on
Monday: Wolf Klinz
(FDP), former MEP and former President of the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry (80);
Michael Hohmann
, head of the Frankfurter Romanfabrik (67);
Frank Riemensperger
, from 2009 to August 2021, Germany head of the management consultancy Accenture, Kronberg (59);
Jochen Klösges
, designated CEO of Aareal Bank AG, Wiesbaden (57);
Kai Beckmann
, member of the executive board of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, President of the Federal Chemical Employers' Association (56);
Michael Bolowich
, Senior Public Prosecutor at the Giessen Public Prosecutor's Office (56).