Germany is facing a new lockdown.
This is what all the political preparations indicate.
Our policy department head Christian Deutschländer warns against an undifferentiated approach.
The corona numbers are increasing threateningly.
Tensions are rising just as threateningly, but below the surface.
More and more citizens find the rules under or exaggerated.
The latter express themselves louder, the former doubt more quietly.
The acceptance is slowly falling.
In this situation, politicians are honestly trying to break the second wave.
Anyone who crudely complains about alleged horniness should question whether they would feel safer under Trump, Johnson, even Schlinger-Kurz.
Eight months of the corona crisis: has the state done all its homework?
No.
Nevertheless, the rule debate threatens to get out of hand.
The word about lockdown is too often and too undifferentiated.
The Chancellor probably wants to lock up gastronomy and culture;
CDU Vice Strobl just wants to lock everything for ten days.
Such blanket plans are the wrong lesson from the spring.
Corona can be defeated regionally, with local, differentiated measures from a uniform catalog of rules.
Obligations and prohibitions must be strictly limited, but enforced more strictly, instead of tightening them every few days.
For example with this curfew salad: 11 p.m., 10 p.m., 9 p.m. and maybe soon closings - this is symbolic politics, unless differentiation is made according to the type of gastronomy, rooms and hygiene concepts and proven risk of infection.
Söder today quieter and more moderate, but still drastically warning.
“Delaying won't help.
Procrastination aggravated.
Will soon be faced with difficult decisions, nationally. "
- Christian Deutschländer (@CDeutschlaender) October 27, 2020
Making Corona controllable again: Politicians should not gamble away insight and acceptance
Anyone who lumps a restaurant and a shisha bar together, or Berlin, Rostock and Miesbach, is acting, which is still better than looking the other way - but not precisely.
Such a policy will improve a bit, but it runs the risk of alienating the middle, which has no knowledge problem and does not run after any confused conspirators.
After eight months of the pandemic, citizens of good will also ask themselves: Did the state do its homework before the lockdown?
School is hygienically organized (no) or video lessons guaranteed (no), contact tracking secured everywhere (no), local transport organized corona-proof (no), corona app rescheduled more efficiently (no), close-knit controls ensured (no) and transparent, clearly understandable rules set (No).
A lot has been achieved, especially in Bavaria, but these are big open points.
Pandemic drivers are currently private contacts.
The state does not penetrate sufficiently with regulatory force, but needs insight and acceptance from the citizens.
These precious goods should be treated more carefully than in the past few days.
