Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder would not be called Markus Söder if he did not carry out a harder lockdown than the one agreed with his Prime Minister colleagues.
It is targeting the skiers - and the Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
Admittedly: Politicians have a hard time at this time of a serious health crisis.
Whatever the government does or fails to do, it cannot expect praise.
The consequences of any (non-) government action are too overwhelming for those affected with their conflicting interests - the risk patients, the innkeepers, the artists, the shopkeepers, all of us in our desire to enjoy a bit of everyday life even in times of the pandemic preserve.
A sense of proportion and prudence are important.
And always the question: How effective are individual measures - and how serious are their side effects?
The package put together by the 16 prime ministers and the chancellor is rightly guided by efforts to avoid a tough lockdown like in France or Austria.
The price for this is a thicket of regulations - and the risk that the government and the governed will get lost in them, as with the (later discarded) idea of allowing children only one playmate.
Unfortunately, that's how it happened again.
The decision to halve the number of visitors in shops larger than 800 square meters will fly around our ears before Christmas, when long queues form in front of the supermarkets and people panic and start buying hamsters.
Not to mention the consequences for the dying inner cities.
Nobody needs this economic stimulus program for Amazon.
In his constant endeavor to celebrate the lockdown harder than everyone else, Bavaria's Prime Minister Söder also focused on outdoor sports, skiing.
With Merkel's help, he wants to have it banned everywhere in the Alps, especially in Austria, regardless of the functioning hygiene concepts of the mountain railways.
But is the short stay with a mask in the elevator really more dangerous than the three-quarters of an hour ride in a full Munich S-Bahn, which the state government apparently considers to be so risk-free that it does not take any measures here?
The state is turning the world of restaurateurs, shopkeepers and lift operators upside down with the stroke of a pen, but in its own area of responsibility it continues as if there were no viruses.
Söder shouldn't be surprised if some Bavarians shake their heads.