From “belittling” to “rubbish”: the federal government plans “winter etiquette” - some planned rules of conduct go too far

With the “Winter Etiquette”, the federal government and Angela Merkel may be planning further rules of conduct for the Corona period.

The reactions on the net to this have been rather critical so far.

• To

  reduce

  contact

  , the federal and state heads could decide on further contact restrictions on Monday or at least issue recommendations.

• The

  "winter etiquette"

  is a term that circulates in the run-up to the consultations.

• A few

  users on the net are

  particularly bothered by the term

  .

Berlin - Adhere to the sneeze and cough etiquette, avoid shaking hands, keep your distance: In

, rules of conduct when dealing with other people are immensely important in order

to avoid

.

Now there is a new word that fits into this series:

.

Such a

with rules for children, families and adults could be adopted on Monday afternoon in the conference of the prime ministers with Chancellor

(CDU).

According to the

information (article behind the payment barrier) the following could be included in the "winter etiquette":

• A

  household

  should only be allowed to affect one other household - always the same.

• A

  child

  should always meet with the same boyfriend or girlfriend.

• Even with mild

  cold symptoms

  , you have to stay at home for several days and get an electronic sick note.

• Elderly people

  should be given special protection, but isolation of the people should definitely be prevented.

• RTL

  takes up the advice

  to refrain

  from

  traveling

  as a further point of

  etiquette.

These are all measures that continue to

build

on

reduction.

All unnecessary encounters should be taboo.

This is currently seen as the most important point about the still comparatively high number of

to minimize.

But there is increasing

against the planned rules

- about the point with the cold symptoms or meeting children.

It is therefore possible that individual points on the list above are not even decided or recommended.

Winter etiquette: reactions to the planned rules of behavior

Even before the

and the Chancellor presented their results,

, FDP chairman, intervened.

In one of several Twitter messages about the Corona summit and the current measures, he addresses the issue of cold symptoms: "The recommended quarantine for cold symptoms of any kind would paralyze the country." He

tests are better.

It is necessary to reduce contacts, but the extent of even family separation is excessive.

The recommended # quarantine for # cold symptoms of any kind would paralyze the country.

Comprehensive #quick tests would be better.

(4/8) # covid19

- Christian Lindner (@c_lindner) November 16, 2020

Winter etiquette: lack of understanding on the internet - there is talk of "embarrassment" and "rubbish"

Otherwise there are

mainly critical comments on the Internet

about the

.

One user mockingly said: “Winter etiquette ... It is unbearable.

From so much embarrassment and increasingly crazy statements you can see quite well that they are getting more and more desperate. ”Others think that

are ok as rules, but such measures are more of a“ rubbish ”.

Above all, the fact that more and more terms like

or now “winter etiquette” are circulating is something that some users find bad because these words are belittled.

Instead, says a Licensees: "Caution is important, consideration also, but we need concepts for life with Covid-19, 20, 21 seq." Word games like "Winter Knigge - The you can kniggen" are not uncommon as a

to the Announcement.

"Winter etiquette" - the next belittling after the "lockdown light" term and the strange video about doing nothing in the Corona review in 20 years ... #Cautiousness is important, # Consideration too, but we need concepts for life with Covid-19, 20, 21 following https://t.co/d0HNrdtf8C

- Martina Haas (@haasberlin) November 15, 2020

Corona winter etiquette: Angela Merkel has been saying for a long time that winters would be tough

Only a few users who take part in the

for example on Twitter, see the term “winter etiquette” and its content soberly.

But none of this has been officially announced yet.

Instead, there is anger about draft resolutions.

But such “rules of conduct for the winter” fit into Merkel's previous warnings: In her weekly

,

among other things

, Merkel repeatedly emphasizes that the cold season will be a difficult time.

"The

ahead of us

will demand a lot from us all."

Should

rules of conduct be adopted as "winter etiquette"

in the

, it would presumably be urgent recommendations to be given to the Germans.

Further

or

could be enacted in the coming week, when the federal and state heads meet again and the current

evaluate.