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Corona strategy: sleep and wait
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Attention, today is being used, I want to.
To save you the long text, I have already briefly summarized:
The long version doesn't say more either, but longer.
Hello, good afternoon rulers, most people understand.
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Sibylle Berg is a writer and playwright.
In 2019 her bestselling novel »GRM.
Brainfuck ", 2020 the discussion volume" Nerds save the world ".
Berg has received numerous awards for her literary work, most recently the "Bertolt Brecht Prize" and the "Swiss Grand Prix for Literature".
Together with Matze Hielscher she can be heard every 14 days in the podcast »Wesensfremd«.
After ten million statistics, case numbers, R-values every second in all media, after speeches, appeals, after lockdowns and on and on again, but only a little, just enough that the governments don't have to pay what people have paid in beforehand to have.
After the inflationary use of the word solidarity, so often until it was completely hollowed out.
Most of them understood or acted as if it was normal to only meet six people from 16 households or not.
You understand that the situation is dire for most governments.
Politics, of course, some want this, others want that, compromises have to be made.
So ski areas open, cinemas closed or the other way around, it doesn't matter.
People have heard the legend of jobs to be kept at DAX companies as often as the word solidarity.
There will be something to it.
Hello TUI, hello cruise ships, mass tourism.
Save, privatize, close
The economy will recover.
The old die.
Still, or the younger ones, or six people from 27 households.
All dead. We had to save, privatize or close hospitals.
We understood that many politicians were overwhelmed, in a permanent exceptional state from which they had to recover in the summer like all of us.
A little break, after which the virus, surprisingly, recovered well and started again.
You were confronted with new rules that were more confusing than the blueprint for a server that fell into a pool of water.
And no strategies, except - a new word - personal responsibility.
So, ready, enough rules for today.
People are already doing it.
That is privatization at its best.
Just without money.
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And now, surprisingly, many are in a bad mood.
At some point you had elected politicians so that they could do a job that the majority cannot do - because too many.
Politicians are deputies, elected and paid by the masses, well - and maybe also a little from the jobs on various boards.
And now we no longer really trust the representatives because they accept the dead and the decline of many professions and livelihoods.
The affected small and medium-sized companies, the freelancers and single parents - I'm too tired to list them all - were banned from working, as in my environment, the culture.
Or with an even more infamous solution, the restricted seat or audience numbers, which are a disaster because you no longer even cover the fixed costs.
And we show solidarity and responsibility, we know how serious the situation is and we adhere to rules that apply to non-billionaires.
Many are at the end
But - soon the bills will come with which non-billionaires and non-corporate owners participate in maintaining the infrastructure and the salaries of the deputies.
And after that, even more will be desperate.
Of course, you can also look for a new job, which will be very difficult in the wake of the coming mass unemployment and bankruptcies.
On the other hand, most of the industry in which I am familiar have many years of training and professional experience.
Like almost all working people.
Like everyone who has not inherited.
Many are at the end.
And are afraid.
It doesn't help to compare yourself to those who are worse off.
There are.
There are the single parents who cannot work because they have to close their shop, there are the lonely and those who go mad with worry, there are those with the dead and the long-term injured who no government can help or maybe Yes, but.
The rich countries of the world have saved on the health of the masses, now those who have no lobby are saved, and now?
So let's keep waiting.
For the blessing of the vaccination, for a new system, for better weather, for a miracle or announcements like - hey guys, we failed, sorry, we will think of something immediately.
Or ...
We go to sleep together and wait.
On an idea.
On courage.
And confidence.
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