Christmas 2020 - politicians, virologists, courts apologize: what for?

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North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Armin Laschet

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Sorry!

It's Christmas now.

The big common goal of the year has been achieved.

Or wasn't it at all?

After all, 28,000 fellow citizens who died of the Covid-19 epidemic did not reach it, accompanied by the chatter of several hundred thousand human friends who shouted after them that everyone would have to die at some point, one shouldn't hang on to life like that, 82 years would be enough Colon and breast cancer are dying even more, many have died of influenza, and one has to make sacrifices.

The latter in particular does not seem to convince those who say it loudly.

On December 23rd, Mr. Laschet from Düsseldorf started to apologize to me and you.

He said that politics made a lot of mistakes.

For this he would like to apologize to all citizens, especially perhaps to the delegates of the CDU party congress in January.

One does not really know if and when politicians allowed Mr. Laschet to apologize for their mistakes, and if so, for which ones, and who the politicians actually are.

Perhaps Mr Laschet said one mistake he

himself

has made;

that could be.

It is well known that the Rhinelander in particular is not infallible and, as you can see from Cardinal W. from Cologne, who has not yet started to apologize for his own mistakes, but is busy forgiving the mistakes of some of his dear brothers.

But now the investigative press is hard on his heels ("pressure is growing").

I am curious to see if he can still ride the virtual prince's car at Carnival.

It's always an uplifting feeling when you find someone who didn't know anything and is really ashamed of himself.

Thomas Fischer, arrow to the right

Born in 1953, is a legal scholar and was chairman of the 2nd criminal division 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.

That brings us back to the contrite Mr Laschet and the question of which error he might want to tell us about liability in the face of the approaching salvation (Biontech / Pfizer).

The only thing that occurred to him at first was that many old people had to die lonely in intensive care units and nursing homes.

Well: He can also apologize for the bad weather in November.

The Federal President takes a very different and much more positive approach.

No wonder: if you manage not to apologize to Mr. Kurnaz, you won't let yourself be scared off by asymptomatic hobby virologists.

Besides, I would not have suspected "politics" as being primarily responsible for the failure of family reunions in intensive care units.

As far as I know, most of those who died in intensive care, even before Corona, died without the grandchildren's happy singing to their ears.

If you listen to the ringing sound of the "lonely dying" song, you think you can tell that it is mostly more about the loneliness of the survivors than that of the dying.

What are the meaningless and inconsequential excuses of such immaterial beings as "politics"?

In the end, this has become a cause for concern;

probably some coaching company came up with it, or a consultant to Joe Biden.

Well, as long as Laschet and Merz don't jog on stage in shorts or do a few squats at the desk, it's still okay.

Otherwise, medicine and theology could also apologize, globalization, the Chinese, social psychology, Austria anyway, and so on.

Conversely, all citizens should apologize to politicians.

After all, she meant well.

Forgive me, politics!

The year of the sacrifice

This makes me think that we should make 2020 the year of sacrifice and remember it.

Christmas seems to me to be the right time for this, if only because about 60 percent of the population of Germany mutually want this as a so-called "contemplative" and, as they claim, expect their Creator God to arrive in person on Terra.

Aside from the question: Does Cardinal W. from K. actually say anything on the question of God-sent plagues in connection with the virus itself and in particular?

Or is that somehow blasphemous to ask?

Are there any special anti-virus tips in the Quran?

Shouldn't we give the prophets and saints' statements on pestilence more space than Mr Ballweg's funny start-up?

Anyone who has not yet found acceptance into a recognized victim population with a personal right to apologize at Christmas 2020 has not yet understood the course of the modern world or in the end does not want to.

More victims than Corona Germany in 2020 is really no longer possible!

Victims are: the parents (overworked), the grandparents (lonely), the children (without schooling), the sick (sad), the healthy (short-time work), the entrepreneurs (illiquid), the employees (poor), the hosts (broke) and their guests (without celebrations), hoteliers (empty) and indoor swimming pools (dry), the clubs (empty) and their clubsters (single), the doctors (sleepless), nurses (exhausted) and patients (put off), the teachers (overwhelmed) and students (remained stupid).

Of course, motorists (always), taxpayers (see future generations), health insurers (worried), insured (ripped off), opinion leaders (suppressed), demonstrators (misunderstood), daycare aunts (in quarantine) and three-year-olds (looking for meaning), Lufthansa pilots (parked) and passengers (unrecovered).

You could go on like this for a few more pages to the end of the column, but that should be enough for a first impression.

I don't think anyone is as enthusiastic about victims as the Germans.

At most, the AfD.  

The victim does

n't

really

want to be a victim.

Nowadays, however, often only on the condition that no one else is a victim or at least does not get a victim ID for free parking in the pedestrian zone.

Not out of solidarity, but on the contrary: Since the victim position has been associated with exorbitantly high secondary profits for a few decades, even if there is no primary loss at all, it is the fine art of self-assurance, at the same time completely unimpaired and seriously injured, at the same time very small and huge to be completely without responsibility and the most important thing at the same time.

Politicians, meanwhile, apologize, and Ms. Weidel grimaces particularly aggressively and contemptuously, because nobody is such an extraordinarily knowledgeable and intelligent victim as she, except perhaps a few outstanding forces from the moral front.   

In any case, you have to make sure that you join a group of victims in good time, preferably two or three.

Of course, it is also about money, i.e. the usual socialization of god-given or natural risks in life, especially those of the middle class!

But regardless of this, there is an urgent need not to stand aside without consolation when the whole world has sunk into contemplation of its wounds and Mr Laschet stands in front and apologizes.

As far as the feeling of victimization is concerned, Corona has also brought new perspectives and opportunities: "Young, healthy, enough money and tons of free time" is a description of the victim that earlier generations could only dream of.

And even 60 years ago, the tear-inducing constellation "two top earners in the home office, two children, Spanish nanny" would not have prompted a report with the title: "How can you stand it?"

Already not flown on vacation twice?

Car purchase postponed?

Short-time work?

New loan requirements despite Basel III?

No customer far and wide in the event industry?

Yes, it's true: an epidemic is a hard blow for many individuals and for society as a whole.

The fact that five percent of 80 million fall into an absurd psychological crisis and mentally prepare for the Last Judgment is also very exhausting and annoying, but it has been normal and expected for 10,000 years.

As long as there is not a cheat and idiot standing in front and calling for his

Proud Boys

, it will still work.

News situation

That's why I think you might just have to let it go with complaining and complaining.

This certainly does not apply to everyone, because some actually have every reason to do so: the sick, the bereaved, the unemployed and insolvents.

From the point of view of society, however, these are by no means "all of us".

They are people who are far worse off than the columnist and most of his readers.

I think the latter should be communicated to the country once a day by means of a headline: We live, most of them are fine, we can do it.

What should be wrong with that?

What has really got on my nerves for the last ten months has been the obscenity of the routine complaining and the malicious, denunciating, ostensibly "critical" reporting, which unfortunately is often exhausted in a mere pose, a

simulation of

what counts as "critical questioning" should.

This reproach is, of course, directed to the point where the source of the misery communication presents itself as a source of rationality and knowledge: "The press", "the media".

Why not?

Not everything that is briefly summarized is therefore undifferentiated, blanket and clueless.

Can you, as the TV journalist asks the minister, rule out 100 percent that the new virus variant is already in Germany?

No, says the Minister, of course not.

Shouldn't one have made provisions earlier? Asks the journalist.

Afterwards you are always smarter, says the minister, how should you have made provisions?

Shouldn't the borders have been closed earlier, asks the journalist?

Yes, maybe, says the minister.

But could the virus even be stopped by closing the border? Asks the journalist.

No, of course not, says the Minister.

Aren't the travel restrictions wrong then? Asks the journalist.

No, says the minister.

How are you going to explain to the truck drivers that they have to be stuck in traffic jams for Christmas? Asks the journalist.

You can't know everything beforehand, says the minister.

But isn't that the job of politics? Asks the journalist.

The task is not to be able to do the impossible, says the minister.

Is there enough financial aid available? Asks the journalist.

Yes, says the minister.

But isn't it dubious to get into so much debt? Asks the journalist.

What else should we do? Asks the Minister.

How long will it go on? Asks the journalist.

As long as it has to be, says the minister.

Thank you, Minister, says the journalist.

Politicians, ladies and gentlemen, are at a loss.

Can the minister hold out much longer?

Thank you sender!

Now the report follows: How sad is the St. Thomas Choir that they are not allowed to sing together this year?

Then the investigative series: Why were superfluous masks ordered?

Episode two: Why are there not enough masks?

Part three: why masks are useless.

Part four: New dangers from not using masks.

Part five: how science fails.

Part six: yes what now?

- Confusion about masks.

In between: Reports about the depression in the funeral industry, about the loneliness of night nurses, about the lack of chances for children from poor families, about the corona situation at the Münster railway station mission. Experience reports: How I was depressed.

Why so many suicides are happening now.

What's the worst part about loneliness.

How young people lose their chances in life.

How restaurateurs are losing their schnitzel sales.

How art breaks away from theaters.

How the division in society deepens.

At Christmas, title page: »Skiing divides Switzerland«. 

All good.

The constant panic sound is very tiring and also pointless, because hardly any of the messages has the power to understand the world or make it understandable.

To be honest, nobody can tell me that the whole of Germany is sinking into tearful so-called depression, heartburn and post-traumatic stress disorder, because in December 2020 eating baby turkeys, salmon trout and shortbread cookies plus the Little Lord is so terribly lonely and the media markets are closed .

Therefore, the presidents and grand comforters should stop adding more tremolo, pomade and vanilla sugar to this lawsuit.

The press media of all kinds create on average even more than before Corona the impression that they are there for themselves and for their own sake.

There is so much great quality and talent there!

It is squandered and wasted in the stream of stuff, for the production of which intelligence and education are not useful, but rather a hindrance.

The leading media are trying to adapt to Internet communication.

That's kind of logical, but probably a mistake.

But only on the edge.

I can only judge that from the visitor's perspective;

others know a lot more about it. 

Good time!

So, for the illuminatory festival of the winter solstice, a couple of totally un pitiful tips from me: Straighten your back.

Look a little grown up.

Think about what you could have done better yourself.

For three days not talking about who did what wrong.

For a week not thinking about what to buy next.

Wait and see.

Sometimes be disciplined.

Make an effort without anyone noticing.

Look out the window and be happy!

Tell someone that you like them.

Keep distance.

Happy Holidays!

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