It would be the first time the federal and state governments were of the same heart and soul when it came to changes in the Infection Protection Act.

Karl Lauterbach and Marco Buschmann have presented a draft that took a long time to come up with and that hectic submissions indicate that the coalition, like last year, still does not agree on its Corona policy.

The SPD-led Ministry of Health wants to be more careful than the FDP-led Ministry of Justice.

Both are unlucky that, of all times, when the "wall" of the omicron wave seemed to have broken and a generous relaxation of the corona measures was therefore being considered, the number of infections rose again.

Old competency dispute

The negative echo from the countries reflects both: the doubts in the matter and the old dispute over competences that have existed since the beginning of the crisis.

What bothers the states is the dependence on the federal government when tougher measures are needed than those provided for in the law.

There should now be "basic measures" that can be upgraded at any time by state parliamentary resolution for corona hotspots (although the hotspot can also be the entire respective country).

As was the case last autumn, however, the federal states do not have enough instruments.

He is not only too small for them, but also too small-small.

What if it has to be really fast?

Why does the federal cabinet, does the Bundestag really have to regulate when and where a face mask may be prescribed?

It would be more important than a tug of war between the FDP and SPD/Greens over such trifles that the federal government could ensure the corona vaccinations.

Without them, freedom in spring and summer is built on sand.

However, no progress can be seen.

For the time being, one of the group applications lacks a majority in the Bundestag for compulsory vaccination.

Nothing has changed in terms of the willingness of the population to be vaccinated.

This is one of the reasons why the laboriously slimmed down Infection Protection Act already has an expiry date: September 30th.