The prime ministers agree on the measures to contain the coronavirus, it said.
But now Markus Söder is on it again.
And the SPD dreams of "Corone solos".
A comment by Merkur editor-in-chief Georg Anastasiadis.
It doesn't help: The 16 prime ministers have agreed to the inevitable and agreed a lockdown plan for the turn of the year, which is limited to what is necessary and abandoned unworldly ideas such as the one-playmate rule from the Chancellery.
OK then.
Because now it is important to strengthen the stamina of the exhausted citizens and not torment them with regulations that the people do not understand (and do not support).
The fact that CSU boss Söder, as soon as the compromise is in place, rushes forward again and wants a longer and harder lockdown and, ideally, a ski ban at the same time, the Bavarians have to negotiate with their always extremely concerned father.
In any case, this is not how the hoped-for closed picture is presented.
Even if the good news from vaccine manufacturers increases the hope of an end to the pandemic, the country still faces major challenges.
When the virus has been put down, it is important to also push back the corona superstate and to repair the balance between personal responsibility and state power that has slipped in the pandemic.
All the patronizing talk of politicians about how much family we are allowed to have at Christmas exemplifies how deeply the state governs the most private areas of human interaction, how it curtails civil liberties and degrades entrepreneurs to recipients of charity.
A liberal society cannot endure such a regiment longer than absolutely necessary without being damaged.
It throws light on the deplorable state of the SPD when, in this very situation, they consider how they cannot give back their freedom to troubled citizens and companies, but on the contrary increase the tax penetration of the omnipotent state.
First you forbid companies to operate, then you put new burdens on them.
The envy debate about a "corona solos", which has been deliberately broken and deliberately dividing society anew, must be ended as soon as possible.
