Icon: enlarge
Man with ankle cuffs (posed scene), archive picture from 2017
Photo: Julian Stratenschulte / picture alliance / dpa
The other day somewhere south of Winterberg, a couple in sweatpants and sneakers trudged through the pine trees.
On the way to the white people had avoided secret routes for fear of controls, got stuck with the golf in the snow and got lost in the forest.
They came from Holzwickede near Dortmund, around 100 kilometers away from the Hochsauerland, in which they had no business.
To the author
Photo:
Bernd Hartung
Arno Frank
was born in Kaiserslautern in 1971 and has no experience of fleeing from the war.
He says, "I'm a Handke lover. This is my problem now."
Handke's "The Weight of the World" opened at least one world to him.
He writes novels and is a SPIEGEL author.
The 15-kilometer rule is about the official restriction of the range of motion of such hallodris.
Assuming the incidence value in Holzwickede is higher than 200. That is actually not that difficult to understand.
And to be fully welcomed.
The government acts, takes action, makes clear statements.
15 kilometers, and not a meter more!
Certainly, in pre-pandemic times, our range of motion was limited to a financial limit.
Since the planes stayed on the ground, we have been largely limited to our winding continent - at times even to around 360,000 square kilometers of the Federal Republic of Germany.
A scary thought for claustrophobics.
For Saxony it can already be seen from Google that never before have more people searched for the term »radius«.
And such a radius, placed over your own place of residence, rarely looks reassuring.
More like one of these representations, with which the effects of an atomic bomb can be made clear (within a radius of 15 kilometers it becomes really uncomfortable with an explosive force of only two megatons).
Even the fastest runner in the world, Letesenbet Gidey from Ethiopia, needs a whopping 44 minutes and 20 seconds to walk from the center to the periphery.
An average trained person would need several days to hike their circumference of more than 94 kilometers.
The area of the zone within which you can be infected to your heart's content corresponds roughly to that of Singapore.
Rather, the objection would be that the 15-kilometer zone is too big.
The radius corresponds to the range of a cheap e-scooter.
In Wuhan, one hears, the authorities unceremoniously nailed house doors shut, which restricted the population's range of movement to 15 square meters.
This very Chinese method also solved the problem of how the police actually want to check compliance with the rule.
The disaster surrounding the Corona warning app has shown that other strings also have to be wound here.
In the medium term, it will likely result in the massive use of devices that are in constant radio contact with a base station and, if contact is lost, alert the health department.
In order to increase the acceptance in the population, this device should have an attractive name.
“Smart Responsibility Check” (SRC) or “Corona Cruiser”.
As you can hear if you listen carefully to yourself, the Ministry of Health is already carrying out initial feasibility studies in this interesting direction.
It is optimistic that such an "electronic residence surveillance" (EAÜ) has already proven itself in open penal systems and is very popular.
Trust is good, control is better.
However, Jens Spahn would be well advised to order these devices in good time.
And in sufficient quantities to really guarantee basic supplies for the population.
Otherwise we will soon argue about a bottleneck in the supply of electronic ankle cuffs.
Icon: The mirror