the future government coalition in Berlin has made the reconciliation of prosperity and ecological restructuring of economy and society on its flags.

After the coalition agreement was presented, publisher Gerald Braunberger took a closer look at what to make of it.

First of all: The term “social market economy” can already be found in the preamble to the coalition agreement.

The traffic light wants to modernize the state and yet it also relies on the efficiency and innovative ability of a private economy that continues to be strongly characterized by an export-oriented industry.

But: Braunberger believes that high regulatory demands should not be made of the new coalition.

Instead of a clear separation of the tasks of state and economy, the traffic light relied on joint action guided by a common interest - an idea that speaks more to the heart than the head.

Heart over head.

The song of the singer Joris is quite nice.

Let's see what the concept is good for in politics.

Carsten Knop

Editor.

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In any case, more head would be a good approach in the fight against pandemics.

This is shown, among other things, by the conversation we had with the Swiss aerosol researcher Michael Riediker about virus variants, the risk of infection in trains, loud singing and the Emmentaler model.

The delta variant significantly increases the virus concentration in the respiratory tract in many infected people and thus also the number of viruses released into the air. We know from contact tracing studies that numerous super emitters have infected over a hundred people. In the English-speaking world there is the analogy of the Swiss cheese risk model: “We call it Emmental cheese. Every disc has holes. And every measure has large and small holes, but if I put slice by slice on top of each other, the cheese is sealed. So you have to combine the measures, indoors vaccination, ventilation, air purifiers, masks help. If you have no control over the people in the rooms, you should always wear a mask. The mask is a spit guard and aerosol catcher. "

Against this background, the question of whether it will come or not, the compulsory vaccination remains.

In any case, the social psychologist Ulrich Wagner has already explained to us in a conversation whether the compulsory vaccination could actually reach unwilling people and what we can learn from the discussion about compulsory seat belts.

Wagner also says that the division in society is there anyway:

“We are still talking about protests and violence by vaccine opponents, my fear is: If schools now close again and we all have to stay at home, then this resistance will also come from those who advocate the vaccination .

Then the rift is really deep in society.

Don't wait for that. ”How true.

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