Last weekend, the threat situation still seemed abstract. Reports that the intensive care units were again filling up with mostly unvaccinated Covid-infected people, depressing reports about the situation in old people's homes, sharply increasing incidence figures - they did not prevent a ball or celebration. In addition, they did not change any refusal to vaccinate, on the contrary. Increased requests to please catch up on the vaccination as soon as possible and, in case of doubt, to make it mandatory, led to a lot of approval and loud contradiction. One is at odds, Corona divides.
The receipt is coming now, and what was abstract last weekend - now it is becoming a reality.
Christmas parties, planned with great hope, are canceled.
Larger events such as the opera gala in Frankfurt are also affected.
It will only be the beginning of a winter of rejections.
At some point the question arises as to how safe the next Christmas family visit will be.
Because the young children are not vaccinated.
Meanwhile, the elderly are waiting for their booster vaccinations.
And those who do not want to be vaccinated continue to believe that none of this has anything to do with them.
Daily tests must become a matter of course
So what to do Masks on again, also in 2-G events for those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered. In addition, daily tests have to become a matter of course again. It is good that the incumbent Federal Minister of Health is taking steps in this direction, it is bad that they are coming so late. At least the past week is a lost one. And the country simply cannot afford many more lost weeks.
In the teams that have been affected by almost two years of virtual collaboration, the nerves are on edge.
But all of that is nothing compared to the situation in the corona intensive care units, which only a few people in society are interested in.
The fact that the nurses in the old people's homes are not reliably vaccinated is something for which the inflationary word scandal applies.
And that the state has allowed at least around a quarter of Germans to believe that they are in the best possible position without a vaccination.
A vaccination is not compulsory, by the way, you should also think about that semantically again before rushing to reject it.