"Maybrit Illner" to extend the lockdown: bite into the edge of the table

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Maybrit Illner and her guests: After all, it "didn't go wrong on purpose"

Photo: ZDF / Svea Pietschmann

Dieter Hallervorden would like to know from the federal government who exactly wrote the paper for the lockdown until Easter, so with flowers and books, but no wine or theater and a relaxation from an incidence of 50 - Hallervorden would like to hire those responsible "as cabaret authors" .

The situation is not that funny.

At Maybrit Illner, this was felt by those who supported the decisions.

Markus Söder, Bavarian Prime Minister, is now characterized by an authentic corona hairstyle and says that the "course of caution" should be continued.

The numbers in Bavaria have gotten better.

Now you have to try to "take the people with you".

Of course, vaccination logistics also have to improve in the Free State, and dramatically.

Whether, besides Jens Spahn, of all people, Transport and Total Loss Minister Andreas Scheuer (CDU) is the right man for the corresponding »Task Force«?

Söder Solomonisch: "He already knows a lot about logistics."

Söder could not really explain why he spontaneously switched from his "No Covid" course to the incidence value of 50.

At least not in a nutshell.

He probably meant what Manuela Schwesig, SPD Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, tried to assert in this matter.

Schwesig spoke somewhat vaguely of "further standards" that could now be applied or that had already been applied to the infection process, new tests, quick tests and an apparently complete vaccination of all "vulnerable people" in their country, one could "risk more «.

Melanie Amann, the head of the SPIEGEL capital city office, who also sat in the group, summarized that there could be no pandemic, but only political reasons for the current course.

Robert Habeck agreed with her, who spoke of "driven" politicians and was surprised that the opposite of what had been advocated before is now being done.

Much to the carelessly subdued pleasure of the virologist Hendrik Streeck.

He asked himself "what happened in the last six months", that is, in the six months in which he was apparently not asked for his opinion by those responsible, but was "smiled at and also attacked".

He always said that we had to start "living with this virus".

In fact, he never wanted to speak of a "second wave" and always painted the picture of a "permanent wave".

We should now "think from the end of this pandemic" and take "the people" with us in this "marathon".

At best with »tools« to get through the whole route, says Streeck.

"Incidence alone, it says nothing at all"

With which he plays the ball tightly and quickly over to Christian Linder, who can also be happy in a week, because Aldi offers quick tests faster than the Minister of Health.

The market with its invisible hands, it regulates.

Now “opening must be thought of”, because “incidence alone says nothing at all”.

In addition, the FDP leader believes that those to be protected are largely vaccinated.

Whereupon Robert Habeck finally answers.

Anyone who hears that "is now biting the edge of the table" is out of the question of vaccination.

Lindner: "Can you say how many people live in nursing homes?" Habeck: "Can you tell?"

Lindner can, but has forgotten the old people who are still at home.

In general, "the discussion is not creative enough" for him.

"Innovative hygiene concepts" should be rewarded with openings.

And where it “doesn't work”, one would just have to “pull the emergency brake”.

Finally, the talk takes a strangely calming turn into the subjunctive.

What could we have done better?

How many deaths could we have prevented?

Markus Söder prefers to calculate that he saved the lives of around 1,000 people.

"The EU should have ordered faster and earlier," speculates Manuela Schwesig.

Habeck reassures us that what went wrong, after all, it “did not go wrong on purpose”.

We Germans always wanted to do particularly well - and »get caught up in the bureaucracy.

There is a lack of creative statecraft «.

And that sounds so retrospective and rested, as if it were all over.

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