Abolition of the restrictions: Those who remain reasonable should have shelters

Imagine that there is no longer a mask requirement, but everyone has one on: It will hardly be like this in the Hessian supermarkets and department stores, in the boutiques, theaters and restaurants in the next few weeks.

If you don't take the bus or train, if you don't have to go to the doctor or visit the hospital or nursing home, you no longer need to cover your mouth and nose, but you can.

And where the owner of a shop or bar uses their domiciliary rights to stipulate that masks must be worn, the customer must continue to do so.

That's good.

It is important to offer special spaces to those who want to remain cautious, in their own interest and ultimately in the interest of everyone else they are protecting by doing so.

But only a few shopkeepers want to do that so far, hardly half of the Hessian restaurateurs intend to do so.

Similar to the topic of vaccination, the mask requirement has harbored the potential for dispute in the past two years.

Neither makes sense to the so-called lateral thinkers and other doubters.

Having to deal with those who do not accept the long-established sense of reasonable rules: many no longer want to do that, and rightly so.

Anyone who is fully vaccinated, who has had boosters, can feel well protected and assume that they have made a contribution to combating the pandemic.

And maybe he still doesn't want to stand or sit close to someone who isn't vaccinated, for whatever reason.

On the side of the reasonable

Society will now fall into two groups: this is what the Marburg social psychologist Ulrich Wagner said in an interview recently.

Some probably remained cautious, while others are now likely to abandon all caution.

Wagner added that the expiration of most rules falsely signals to them that the situation is no longer problematic.

The fact that arguments do not convince the hard core of the corona deniers has been shown, among other things, by the almost stagnant vaccination rate.

Nevertheless, it is important to be on the side of the reasonable.

Maintaining offers under 2G constraints, as a shopkeeper or host, makes sense.

You don't have to be moral to see that, economically justified considerations do the same.

There will be places that are open to everyone and there will be places that do things differently.

This is decided by who offers a good or service.

Above all, however, those who buy and use them decide on this.