Karl Lauterbach can still become Minister of Health after all, and you immediately feel much healthier.
Don't you?
It's a shame, because then Olaf Scholz's calculations won't work out for you at first.
It feels like things should look up in the pandemic, finally get out of the mess, and for his boss Karl Lauterbach has the necessary medical backbone to finally guide us out of there, even with heavy scientific baggage, if necessary.
It feels like Lauterbach has been the Federal Health Spokesman in the capital for a long time anyway, and he has himself to thank for that. "Panik-Karl" cared as little about party proportionality or quota as about the Globuli defenders, of whom there are certainly more in this country than Social Democrats with party membership. Just in time, Scholz noticed that Lauterbach had become a politician of the hearts of many, not despite his loyalty to the Nibelung for scientific medicine, but because of his TV-compatible continuous drenching from Oxford and Harvard studies. Making a career in politics with expertise and competence sounds exotic to many, but it is obviously possible. On the other hand, this is about a type of minister that a people's party must first be able to afford:evidence-based right down to the nails. The reconciliation of interests is not part of the Lauterbach brand essence.
He has threatened the health insurances earlier that they would forbid the reimbursement of homeopathy, he has had a low-salt diet for decades, fatty sausages are poison and only fish and vegetables on the grill, plus a marinade made from olive oil and herbs. Because some see this as the beginning of a health dictatorship and treat their personal convictions like an oath of office, one can expect that the debate about Lauterbach's steep career as a savior with coping with the pandemic will certainly not end. The potential for splitting his vocation is enormous - and it will remain through the current health crisis. Personality cult can be generally unhealthy, who knows that better than the future general staff doctor of the government himself,who has already received more threats of violence and death than any other pandemic expert or health politician.
In medical terms, this is called resilience if you do it anyway.
Maybe those are right who think Lauterbach is probably the only one in Berlin who voluntarily takes on pandemic management.
If it were, it could get nasty.
Because a look at the working paper of the working group health and care of the traffic light coalition shows on six full pages that the German health system is not just about vaccination.
In any case, a Lauterbach alone on the pandemic mountain is far from being enough.