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Corona, Gauland, Igor Levit: Germany got tired

2020-10-30T15:56:48.807Z


Someone is always screaming, but the virus is not listening. Everyone is terribly excited, but at the same time very tired from the excitement. Does this ever end?


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AfD parliamentary group leader Alexander Gauland after his speech in the Bundestag, October 29, 2020

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Fatigue

Are you that tired too?

It is not only a neurological cross with this autumn fatigue, but currently also an epidemiological one, because if you have neither a headache nor a sore throat, neither nausea nor chills, you can light a candle if you are very tired, accompanied by a stuffy nose, as a precaution cancel the "celebration" dates for the next few weeks and prepare the almond kernel for trauma and loss.

Thomas Fischer, arrow to the right

Born in 1953, is a legal scholar and was Chairman of the 2nd Criminal Senate of the Federal Court of Justice.

He is the author of an annually revised standard short commentary on the criminal code and numerous other specialist books.

Everything is related to everything as modern man knows.

So it wasn't surprising to us that a well-known pianist said he was very, very tired, but not from practicing too much.

The confession caused a somewhat less well-known pianist to complain in a well-known German daily newspaper that the well-known pianist made himself important with his fatigue, although he “did not have a legato”, as it should be and that of another well-known pianist.

The pianistic legato, presented by a Richard Clayderman, is at least as dear to German dilettanti as the good forest air, and although it will forever remain controversial whether Cecil Taylor or Thelonious Monk performed the least legatinous etudes, it is guaranteed that that the god of Legato is German, is called Jarrett and comes from Cologne on the Rhine.

Now neither the pianistic tiredness nor the badly ad personam art and character criticism in the "SZ" had much to do with legati and glissandi, the heartfelt concerns of the people of sonata lovers who were thrown back on the CD.

The newspaper "SZ" therefore followed up with an awakening composition of the most submissive apology to the artist and the Legatissimi, especially because the very personal exhaustion of the critic M. could not compare with the state-political fatigue of the artist L.

You could have left it that way, and no columnist would have cut out the stuff and put it on the "possible topics" pile.

But then the philosopher Carolin E. stepped out of the bush, she too in the "SZ", and announced in the headline that she was also tired.

Anyone who knows her texts had seen it coming, but this time it was a particularly tired, dragging copy about the tiredness of the pianist L. and the tiredness of the author E. in view of the tiredness of L. and M., and using it of the entire anti-anti-Semitic vocabulary that the Tired are capable of.

And that is, as one must admit, a lot!

Above all, because she manages to get a mention of discrimination from every text and therefore also from one about the discrimination of the Jewish pianist L.

to distill "a particular body" and a threat of rape for being an "outsider".

The subject may be important at times, but it is not really the metaphor that is needed to explain anti-Semitism in the piano subject.

Well, we'll accept that;

every tiredness of the soul has its theme.

But on October 28th it was enough for us: Another half a page of letters to the editor about the tired.

And right in the middle is the director Doris D. from Munich, who writes to us: "It makes me angry and, yes, also very tired, unfortunately."

Not that we assumed that German directors weren't tired!

But we assumed that this was, so to speak, the, yes, basic equipment of the genre in this country!

In other words, that art-inspired fatigue that even legatinists like Rieux, Wagner or Karajan (e) water from the eye.

This is accompanied by the wonderful Fassbinder cheerfulness and Schygullan joie de vivre, the singing, dancing and celebrating art, yes, art, all in Munich.

And now that: Mrs. D. is, yes, tired;

We don't exactly know what, in any case because of the "SZ", which never tires of documenting the fatigue cascade until you, dear, dear reader, finally believe that all of this is really happening.   

Managment

If anyone understands something of good style and alert orientation, then Mr. State Secretary a.

D. Gauland,

Honorary

Chairman of the Party for Health and Fundamental Rights.

Arm in arm with the youthful pick-me-up from the free democratic party, he reminds us time after time that it is not the government's task, but parliament's task to combat dangers.

This is a nice approach that somehow resonates in Article 80 of the Basic Law, whose paragraph 1 reads:

The federal government, a federal minister or the state governments can be authorized by law to issue statutory ordinances.

The content, purpose and extent of the authorization granted must be determined by law.

The legal basis must be indicated in the regulation.

Such a law passed by the Bundestag can be found, for example, in Section 32 of the (Federal) Infection Protection Act, which reads:

The state governments are empowered to… issue statutory ordinances and prohibitions to combat communicable diseases.

The state governments can transfer the authorization to other bodies by ordinance.

The fundamental rights of freedom of the person (Article 2, Paragraph 2, Clause 2 of the Basic Law), the freedom of movement (Article 11, Paragraph 1 of the Basic Law), the freedom of assembly (Article 8 of the Basic Law), the inviolability of the home (Article 13, Paragraph 1 of the Basic Law) and the Correspondence and postal secrecy (Article 10 of the Basic Law) can be restricted in this respect

And § 54 InfSchG adds:

The state governments determine the competent authorities within the meaning of this law by ordinance, insofar as no state law regulation exists and this law is implemented by the states.

They can also stipulate that according to this law the highest state health authority or the supreme state authority responsible for the care of war victims shall be performed in whole or in detail by a respective subordinate state authority and that the supreme state authorities will not exercise the consent reservations under this law .

That’s something, Mr. State Secretary ret.

The last time that the federal legislature confirmed the regulations was in the law of June 19, 2020 (Federal Law Gazette I, p. 1385), so it wasn't long ago.

Parliament already knew that a virus threatened the freedom of celebration and gastronomic concepts in Germany.

But one just has to repeat often enough that the separation of powers has been abolished, a dictatorship has broken out, a "war cabinet" at work.

Someone will believe it!

In the roughly 10 interviews that the columnist has given on the topic in the meantime, he was always asked, without exception, how the separation of powers is still going in Germany when state ministries have already issued hazard protection regulations.

Regardless of what you answer to such nonsense, the next question is whether it is at all reasonable for Germans to live with a "patchwork quilt" of state regulations and whether a unified "power word" from Berlin is not required.

This is the so-called, officially prescribed "critical" interview technique: start every sentence with the word "but" and assume exactly the opposite as in the previous question.

Dream result: There is no solution at all for anything, everything sinks into "argument".

Stay tuned, dear listeners! 

The best news about the penultimate MP meeting was that they "argued" and didn't come to an agreement.

When everyone was in agreement on October 28, the question was "how long" the suspicious agreement could last.

Mr. Gauland probably finds this anticipatory doom and gloom, which of all positions requires by far the least expertise, really good.

He calls the informal federal-state working group, of which there were probably hundreds of those in his time as a civil servant, in the Bundestag "war cabinet" in order to delegitimize the state.

He spreads panic and poses as an alleged "people's" tribune.

What a tired dope comedy!

The next time they do not like the nose of some foreigner or immigrant German, the "Volks" -friends will again demand the executive use of the Bundeswehr and "ruthless crackdown" of the executive.

Not that there is anything wrong with the separation of powers!

It is with great astonishment to note the extent of misunderstanding and pseudo-critical interpretation fantasy with which parts of the media report and comment when administrative courts repeal individual regulations in hazard ordinances: What use is the effort, the question is raised if the courts "overturn" the regulations again ?

How terrible: the judiciary does what it is supposed to do.

Tiresome stupidity!

There is no consolation that almost nothing is meant seriously, but "just like that".

If the next administrative court does not repeal an ordinance, the question is: has the separation of powers now been abolished?

refund

Do you have any idea why the number of Covid-19 infections has doubled every ten days?

I suspect that the question tires you because you have given the answer many times before: It was definitely not up to you!

It is by no means the catering establishments, not even the companies, the schools, the open spaces, the parks, the clubs, and also not the private apartments, at least not yours!

It could of course be that the viruses are sprayed via chemtrail or added to the drinking water;

but then 90 percent of the people would have to be infected;

so that is not the solution to the riddle either!

All that remains is to reflect on a residual logic: it has to come from somewhere!

And if, as we suspect, the virus spreads through contact between people, one might think of limiting contact opportunities wherever possible.

It is best to start where it hurts the least for everyone and is most easily compensated.

Whether hotel lobbyists are now shouting on television that this is a "professional ban" may not matter, it may also be tiring.

Somebody's screaming anyway, but the virus isn't listening.

Now we understand very well that as a hotelier or host, event manager or legato-knowledgeable performance artist, you are tired of this epidemic.

However, we cannot really explain why the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians has been crawling around since the day before yesterday and making the more than sleepy suggestion that one should "rely on bids instead of bans", since it depends on the participation of the population.

It doesn't get any easier than that!

If the ordering of "commandments" (apparently meant: friendly suggestions) were the ideal way to avert danger, 50 percent of people would still drive without seatbelts and headrests, would have unsecured electrical systems at home and would pass the polio down through the generations.

In a situation of concrete danger, when it comes to a few days in which you can lose control or regain control, to demand it before you close the hotels, but "first more trains and buses are used", you can already as Designate a symptom of a manifest sleeping sickness.

We are of course happy to talk about a logistical concept for all train and bus operators.

If everyone is in a hurry, the first suggestions for planning will be available by May 2021!

Occasionally, for professional reasons, I travel to all sorts of online worlds of opinion rallies.

There you can currently meet a crowd of so-called "critics" supported by Warlord Gauland.

Sometimes they criticize this, sometimes that, but mostly "Corona" and all the suffering that this disease has brought on them or will definitely bring.

Small groups also criticize the fact that "our children" become stupid, neglected and lose all hope of learning a decent profession in the future.

All because of this Corona and of course the tiring hyperactivity of the governments, which, instead of locking up 40 percent of the people and having the other 60 percent look after them, prefer to let 85 percent go to work and compensate 5 percent.

Of course, there is great concern that the neighbor or competitor could get more than you or be better off at all.

Of course, as the very clever ones know, the oversupplied civil servants and the stubborn pensioners have a good time again, because they work practically nothing except maybe a little for the police and in the health authorities and in the hospitals and in the schools and kindergartens and maybe here and there in the old people's and nursing homes and in the garbage disposal, while the hard-working and productive export champions stand their legs in their stomachs and wait for the Christmas business. 

But no fear!

We'll get it right, and if the compensation for the special sacrifice doesn't come the day after tomorrow, then next week, and the application forms will certainly be made so simple that they can be filled out by normal entrepreneurs and founders who tell us year in and year out that the risk of failure is the natural and reasonable price to pay for all the marvelous opportunities in the market, and that everyone could be the blacksmith of their own fortune if they only wanted to.

Except, of course, when it is Corona or in agriculture or in retail or in construction or in the auto industry or in socialism or in the nail salon.

Yawn!

memory

One last look at a style issue from the past week.

The MP Thomas Oppermann died on October 25, 2020.

Since then I have heard or read about 50 times that his death "caused consternation across party lines."

How do you come up with such a mind-boggling formulation?

Who came up with that?

Is the inventor still alive or is he already asleep? 

The question actually has three parts.

First, what kind of message is it actually telling us that some person we do not know shared that he or she was "upset"?

Does anyone care if a member of parliament in Berlin said he was sad because his colleague was dead?

Wouldn't it be more important to report who wasn't upset and whether someone said this into some microphone?

And if not, which is to be suspected: Why aren't we told that the hazy weather is being criticized across parties?

Second: What does the death of a person have to do with "party lines"?

It may well be that parties have members who are happy when a member of another party dies.

But I don't think it's very common.

Were you actually dismayed "beyond district boundaries" or "beyond city limits" or "beyond denominational boundaries"?

Why is this not reported?

Do these parties really have to push their way into mourning over death with the help of the press and bother us with their official dismay?

Third: Why do the press media play along and fuel such tiring game rituals?

We have gotten used to numbness to the pain caused by the daily news about which person "warned" what nonsense that nobody really wants, welcomed or demanded.

We assume that the chairman of the AfD and the chairman of the FDP will find an opportunity today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow to warn of something.

But couldn't they leave us alone to say that they were cross-party dismayed?

We can hardly keep our eyes open.

If this continues, Ms. E. will have to write about the bipartisan discrimination against a section of the population that cannot be named here, and then we will finally fall into a hundred years of sleep without a prince.

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Source: spiegel

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