Karl Lauterbach makes you sick.
However, he does not want this to be understood as a sick party.
That is why the minister continues to work in isolation.
His healthcare system, which is sewn to the brim, does not tolerate further staff shortages.
After determining his Covid 19 disease, the Federal Ministry of Health made it clear that Lauterbach's symptoms were firstly still mild and secondly not enough to keep the minister from his official business.
That already sounded like an official correction in the announcement: Look here, a sick leave is not a ticket for the amusement park Germany.
Joe Biden, the American President who has been infected twice in a row with omicron, also wanted to avoid any impression of bedridden.
Wanted to?
No, he had to.
Remaining defensive is the supreme duty of democracy.
Even the smallest erosion of power, that's what politics is, is now publicly treated as a weakness.
That's why Lauterbach continues to tweet against "hatred and baseness" in isolation and gives interviews.
For example, he sent his “friend” Tedros, WHO chief Ghebreyesus, a convalescence thank-you letter, he congratulated the general practitioners association chief Uli Weigelt on his “clear words” for a fourth vaccination dose and announced an autumn vaccination campaign, the condemnation of an Upper Bavarian one He praises the doctor who issued false mask certificates as fair.
When accused of using the details of his personal corona measures to surreptitiously advertise a Pfizer drug, he prefers to pretend to be sick and remain silent.
You also have to know how to use the isolation.
However, it doesn't last long.
After a quick survey over the weekend, the Association of Emergency and Acute Physicians announced that not only the intensive care beds, but also the normal wards and even the emergency rooms were massively affected by the blatant chronic shortage of staff in the clinics.
The healthcare system, which has long been morbid in terms of personnel, is becoming more and more unstable.
The country cannot afford any more corona failures.
But sick people who work?
Sick leave does not have a deeper meaning for everyone.