After the Corona crisis team, a committee of scientists is to be set up these days, from which Chancellor Scholz hopes to get quick advice on swift action.

One should certainly not expect miracles from this: even a general in the Federal Chancellery cannot simply break the knot in pluralistic and federal Germany, and science will not suddenly come up with unanimous recommendations just because the Chancellor asks for them.

But in the fight against the virus, every attempt to increase the speed of political reaction is worthwhile.

However, there was not only a lack of speed in Germany, but also foresight.

As important as breaking the fourth wave today, preparing for the fifth, sixth, or seventh wave is just as important.

We grope in the dark

Even if no one knows exactly what mutants are still threatening us: In view of the gigantic costs of each lockdown, expensive precautions must also be taken into account.

This ranges from maintaining the vaccination centers to expanding the (previously far too expensive) PCR tests to improving contact tracking.

Since the majority of infections can still not be assigned to a place of infection, politicians are in the dark when it comes to any debate on measures.

Are you really not infected when shopping or traveling by train?

Or does it just never come to light that two infected people were in the same shop or on the same train?

The Corona app could provide answers if tracing was allowed.

If even compulsory vaccination is now widely regarded as proportionate, can the data protectionists' categorical no to this source of information still be justified?