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If you really didn't know yet and still really wanted to know why we are today in Germany, where we are, we recommend »Anne Will« from November 28th.
The country is undergoing a change of political staff.
It looks as if the stick itself has just fallen to the ground - and now there is a dispute about whether and how exactly it should be lifted.
Annalena Baerbock (Greens) and Christian Lindner (FDP) represent the future government, which wants to await a ruling by the Constitutional Court, end the epidemic emergency of national importance and intends to "initiate" a legally secure "catalog of measures".
With Manuela Schwesig from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, there is a minister-president from the SPD who does everything right at home, grows proud of it - and cannot or does not want to reveal who from her party will take over the Ministry of Health, which is not entirely unimportant in this situation will.
Then there is Jens Spahn (CDU), who can only with difficulty hide the relief that he will soon have nothing more to do with all the crap.
“Are you helpless?
Or are you powerless? ”Anne Will asks him.
“Both!” Spahn doesn't say, of course.
He always wanted the right thing in the past few months, sometimes at great sacrifice.
So, just imagine, he had "made a lot of phone calls while on vacation" to 2G, should have been "in retrospect" here and there "more emphatically" - but it shouldn't have been.
So Spahn is out, his thoughts are elsewhere.
As unctuous as he speaks of this profession, he will probably soon be training to be a nurse.
So what should happen?
Schwesig reports that there have been wonderful measures in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania since the summer, "vaccinating on the beach, vaccinating with bratwurst".
The quota, she admits, could still be better.
After all, more people have now let themselves be stung by 3G at work.
That won't be enough.
Now the National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) has demanded "clear and consistent measures - immediately" and "comprehensive contact restrictions" (vulgo: lockdown), also immediately, in a five-page fire letter.
The scientists also complained about the premature termination of the "emergency of national scope" because important instruments had been taken out of the hands of the countries for the time being.
At least the traffic light representatives did not want to know anything about a lockdown that evening.
Lindner does not want to be "consequent", he wants to act
"more consistently"
.
He is pleased that Major General Carsten Breuer will soon be entrusted with the planning and implementation of the measures, as has long been the case in Italy (Spahn off-screen: "I also have a general on my staff!").
Conflict in the traffic light?
No, says the FDP man
In addition, he considers the pandemic to be a “management problem” that he now intends to solve - albeit avoiding a “broad, area-wide lockdown”, because it “also causes damage”.
So, funny story, he allegedly stood in front of a pharmacy to test, where he was approached by the owner of a fashion store.
She complained to him and Lindner of their suffering and the entrepreneurial fear of another lockdown.
Lindner would like "not to participate in a debate that focuses on the assignment of blame".
Decisions would now be "parliamentarized" again instead of decreed.
He also sees no dissent with Olaf Scholz, who has not ruled out any measure - not even a lockdown: "You want to stage a conflict," he says to Anne Will, "which does not exist".
Will: "No, I want something to happen quickly."
At some point, Linder becomes short-lived
"Within ten days" Annalena Baerbock would like to implement the "seven-point plan" - crisis team (with major general!), New vaccination campaign, better protection of old people's and nursing homes, tax-free bonus for care workers.
The traffic lights want and must "get this situation under control in the next week."
Lindner slowly points to the fact that Anne Will and Melanie Amann from SPIEGEL are so persistently pleading for a national lockdown, which, according to the owner of a fashion store in the queue in front of his pharmacy, will not give me: "Then you should give me that Name the specific measures that are required ... ", Melanie Amann:" Yes, I'll be happy to tell you! ", Lindner:" ... then we'll see if they are actually necessary! ", Amann:" Shall I tell you directly ?
Or do you want to wait ten days? "
It’s going to be an exciting week, and it’s probably going to be a terrible winter.
It was an irritable show.
Or, as Manuela Schwesig put it: "It's really difficult on the show today, I have to honestly say, that things are always mixed up".
