Political pressure seems to be working.
Apparently, the prospect of an uncomfortable winter with severe restrictions for unvaccinated people has led to a rush to the vaccination centers that are still open in the corona hotspots of Bavaria, Thuringia and Saxony.
It is good news that many vaccination defenders there, who are not fundamentally opposed to vaccination, have won their spades.
The motives for it should not matter, the main thing is vaccinated.
Many may have decided to do so for a very banal reason: Visiting restaurants and cinemas, for example, will soon only be possible with proof of vaccination or as a person recovering from the corona.
A step that is unique in Europe
In Austria, the same effect occurred under the term "Schnitzelpanik" when Chancellor Schallenberg announced a lockdown for unvaccinated people two weeks ago.
But the threat came too short-term to break the corona tsunami there with a significantly higher vaccination rate.
Exit and contact restrictions for unvaccinated people, a third of the Austrian population, are now in force.
Whether this sanction, which can hardly be controlled, increases the number of people vaccinated to more than 80 percent will also be carefully observed in Germany.
It is a step that is unique in Europe and one that Greens boss Habeck can imagine for unvaccinated people, at least regionally.
A letter from three health ministers of the Greens shows that not only Habeck, but also other traffic light coalitionists are now deviating from their corona course, which is perceived as half-heartedly.
You are calling for the epidemic emergency to be updated and thus opposing the traffic light policy in Berlin.
The current and future governments should finally pull together on this issue.
How about a joint TV roll call from Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz?
Perhaps this persuades some hesitant to vaccinate as a way out of this situation.