World and contemporary history burst with irony and sarcasm.

There is no other way to explain why Olaf Scholz, who had posted "Respect for you" posters during the election campaign, answered a journalist's question as to whether he could specify what security guarantees the G7 are giving Ukraine, and replied "Yes, I could". in order to now seriously take part in a format entitled "You ask - Olaf Scholz answers!"

Timo Frasch

Political correspondent in Munich.

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That's about as ironic as if there were a party that kept shouting "market economy or death!" and then decided on a tank discount.

Or a green climate protection minister who can fire up coal-fired power plants again.

The story seems to have allowed itself a particularly perfidious joke with Hubert Aiwanger.

This is the Bavarian Economics Minister, who a year ago at his summer reception for top journalists warned of an “apartheid discussion” in connection with vaccine skeptics.

On Monday he gave another reception.

It was well attended.

In any case, apartheid was out of the question, especially since Aiwanger has now been vaccinated himself.

A day later, he announced with satisfaction that the Bavarian cabinet had shared his view that public transport only had to wear surgical masks instead of FFP-2 masks.

Another day later the news came: Aiwanger tested positive for Corona.

Before you rip the FFP-2 mask off your face at the breakfast table at home, let’s first clarify the question of whether you can even treat a topic as serious as Corona with irony.

But yes!

After all, history is a collection of challenges that people can only endure with a great deal of irony: airport chaos, wars, monkeypox, traditional costume Zoff.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Every doctor knows that. And if jokes are being made about Corona now, one can assume that the pandemic is over.

The FDP recognized this years ago.

Here the author compares himself with the Documenta makers

That being said, the best laughs are those who laugh at themselves.

That means: Anyone who sat opposite Aiwanger for two hours on Monday in a lively conversation about God and Söder, i.e. who could be affected themselves, can now also write a comment about it.

After all, it is important to make the best of every situation, just like the makers of the Documenta, who hastily rededicate their own failure as a memorial to human fallibility.

Or something like that.

By the way: What does affected person mean here?

The moderator Micky Beisenherz once assumed with a certain pride that he got Corona from Martin Semmelrogge.

Nothing against bread rolls - but isn't it an even better story if you got "it" from Aiwanger?

Of all things!?

In general, the minister should - hopefully!

– speedy recovery emerge as the winner from the number.

If one of the top journalists is suspected to have contracted him, he can still point his finger at the Junge Union Bayern party on Tuesday (in the presence of Söder, she lived up to the old and brand new party motto "Closer to people") or open that of the state parliament Greens on Wednesday, which were also visited by top journalists who had previously been with Aiwanger.

The Free Voters boss has often complained that there is not yet enough data about the pandemic - now he has made an important contribution himself.

Regardless of the outcome of his “Munich study”, she will agree with him.

If many of the top journalists, who are of course fully vaccinated, have become infected, you know that the vaccination is not so great after all.

That was what Aiwanger had predicted.

If no one is infected, that confirms his view that gastronomy is really not the driver of the pandemic.

Incidentally, at the time of going to press it was not entirely clear whether the author was really suffering from a loss of taste and whether his text might be a first indication of this.

That may now be decided by the esteemed readers.