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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«.
For a year now, the media have been supplying consumers with figures that they actually never wanted to know about, and which - my tip - most of them don't say much either: Good morning, the numbers of corona infections continue to rise, incidence values are rising , fall, R-values do something, distance rules, hygiene rules, lockdown 1-4, contact restrictions and even more incidence values.
Human and civil rights not initially, triage, or: we call it selection, is outsourced to the AI, Johns Hopkins numbers are replaced by Robert Koch numbers, a hard winter will come, replaced by a hard spring, we have to sacrifice bring, not all will survive financially, what a shame, but - sacrifices have to be made, mutants, mutant hotspots, superspreader events and conspiracies.
Everything conspiracy except mother, who has not yet, quickly writes a conspiracy theory book.
We are in a crisis and everyone has to stick together.
A large group of people are asking for total lockdown.
Just wait until it all ends naturally.
Maybe that would have been something.
Last year.
Going bankrupt for the community
But then came the ski season.
And the vaccinations came.
And the vaccine shortage.
And vaccination envy, vaccination prioritization, vaccination pass and Israel.
Hooray.
Vaccination certificate.
Who is vaccinated is allowed to do anything.
Or to the hairdresser, or to the dog hairdresser.
Culture?
Yes, the poor.
Cut the budget for culture quickly.
Artists.
Pff, bum.
First, check the incidence values.
And warn.
And scare you.
And go bankrupt for the community.
Politician with a needle in his arm.
It is also not easy for women politicians to make compromises and considerations, no idea where from.
Yet one should be able to deal with crises in a system that implied the crisis.
Nobody can.
People are too irresponsible for personal responsibility, professional bans, we call it - expropriation - of millions.
You have to show solidarity, and then billions flow to companies that have just made high profits, to companies that cleverly avoid paying taxes.
And then companies pay dividends to their shareholders during the crisis, they have to.
Because we're saving jobs in Bangladesh, we're saving Adidas, Lufthansa (in the last ten years Lufthansa has accordingly taxed three billion euros on a profit of 15.6 billion euros - that's 19.4 percent. In Cologne, where the headquarters the tax would be 32.45 percent).
No matter.
The beautiful jobs.
Partly in companies that nobody needs.
Except for the shareholders.
Should we ask ourselves what society needs?
No, we are too tired.
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It is now more than clear that many women politicians are nothing more than civil servants, hardly any men, including men, manage to convey daily information clearly.
Dear citizens, thank you that I still have a job.
We had to forbid many of you from doing this, but we don't have enough nursing staff because we privatized, because we closed hospitals, because we were too stupid to study exactly what other countries are doing better.
Sorry, we're paying you a basic income for our mild failure.
Instead: more numbers.
Statistics.
Teachings.
Anyway, nothing will change.
The people are tired.
Broke, dead or sick.
And we are waiting.
We show solidarity, are sensible, we are responsible, we do what we always do.
Continue.
If we can go on again.
We work, pay taxes, vote, anyone, we wait for the next crisis.
Which we will master in solidarity with our own responsibility.
If we still can.
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