1. Never say ski
After Markus Söder, the Chancellor has now also called for all European ski areas to be closed.
Tourist traffic should no longer take place - even though the lift operators have worked out elaborate hygiene concepts.
Goodbye departure?
What's next?
Close all motorways so that you can no longer move?
The tourism industry asks: What speaks against a trip in the snow if you adhere to all the Corona rules?
What if you treat gondolas like elevators, into which a certain number of people are allowed to get on?
What if you forbid après-ski and hut fun, but not everything?
You still ski alone in the fresh air.
With more and more new demands, the contradictions and omissions in the previous corona policy will not be cleared up.
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Merkel during the government declaration in the Bundestag
Photo: Michael Kappeler / dpa
The application form for the November aid, which was generously promised, was only available to download yesterday (!) Because it was apparently so complicated to set up a system.
Why didn't you use the summer for this when it was clear that there would be a second wave and a possible shutdown?
Merkel finds forms such as hybrid, alternating instruction or digital instruction in the »hotspots of hotspots absolutely necessary«.
But schools can sometimes not offer digital lessons because teachers first have to obtain a declaration of consent for the use of software and someone from the parents is guaranteed to be able to call the data protection officer who forbids this.
If you want to switch to other software, you need your own servers, which can be ordered but not available.
In hardly any school have digital work devices been provided in sufficient numbers.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, the Ministry of Culture of the City of Solingen even banned digital lessons at the beginning of November, even though Solingen had a seven-day incidence value above 200.
Health authorities still transmit their data to the RKI by fax or e-mail, everything entered in Excel tables instead of in digital systems that all authorized persons can access.
The traceability rate is just 25 percent, the Corona warning app turns out to be a flop.
One hope now lies in the vaccine, which should be available soon.
But even if he comes soon, that doesn't mean everything will be okay.
Because first of all, the question of what happens to the thousands of study participants who only received a placebo must be clarified.
A moral dilemma.
Read a summary of Merkel's government statement here
Here my colleague Silke Fokken has compiled the current status of Corona and schools.
The quick approval of a vaccine harbors a moral problem, my colleague Julia Köppe describes which one.
Interview with Austria's Minister of Tourism, Elisabeth Köstinger: "You don't get the virus on the slopes"
2.
Do men talk too much?
When my colleague Nina Weber - a science journalist who has been permanently dealing with the topics of Corona and Covid-19 since the beginning of the year - recently googled "Chief Physician Cardiology" to find an expert on a specialist question, the search engine wanted to know whether she wasn't "Chief Physician Cardiology «my.
A similar incident occurred a few weeks ago when the biomedical scientist Özlem Türeci was only listed as "the wife of Uğur Şahin" at Google, the founder of the vaccine manufacturer Biontech - although she has had expertise for years and runs a research department alongside her husband.
What do both cases have in common?
The man is not only considered a maker and expert in search engines, the woman at best as an accessory.
Even Nina, who is absolutely unsuspected of discriminating against women, did this unconsciously.
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Too rare picture.
Photo: Jenny On The Moon / Getty Images / iStockphoto
She has mentioned people by name in her articles almost 120 times since the beginning of the corona pandemic, only 22 percent of them are women.
She wanted to get to the bottom of it now, wanted to know why there is such an imbalance not only in her reporting.
Because also in other media it is mainly men who have their say and are mainly shown to men.
Is it because women refuse requests for a meeting more often than men do, and is it "their own fault" that they are less present?
In no way says Nina, who has summarized her results very soberly and factually.
Read Nina's text here: Talking to women
3. "Lame duck" or "shameless buck"?
On Monday I told you about Mario, the buyer of my car, who said he had apparently bought an update subscription with the car.
Since then he has been sending me WhatsApp messages and wants to know whether he still has to be afraid of Donald Trump.
At the beginning of the week I couldn't send him a satisfactory answer, but now I have.
My colleague Christoph Scheuermann explains why Trump is currently more dangerous than rarely before.
He is currently creating a new office, one that the constitution has not yet provided for, "that of the secondary president," said Christoph.
It fits in with the fact that Trump's foreign minister, Pompeo, still traveled to Saudi Arabia, even though he belongs to a government headed by an alleged “lame duck”.
Or is Trump rather a "shameless buck" - a shameless buck?
My colleague Dominik Peters analyzed the background.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reportedly also present at the meeting in Riyadh.
Mario had questions about that too.
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Trump (r.) With the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz (center) and the Egyptian President al-Sissi (l.) In Riyadh in 2017
Photo: Saudi Press Agency Handout / dpa
The Trump administration hasn't done so much else, but it has at least made some movement in the mess in the Middle East.
Previously hostile states such as Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan are talking to each other again.
But did the secret meeting in Riyadh serve the purpose of peace, or rather the preparation of an attack on the common enemy Iran?
In other words, a kind of Nero plan, according to which everything is cut short and sweet before leaving?
Or was it more about parting gifts in the Middle East, which Trump was much more favorable to than he will ever be to future President Joe Biden.
You and Mario can read all of this in Christoph and Dominik's texts.
Here you can find Christoph's assessment of Trump in the final phase
Here Dominik wrote down whether Trump actually has a Nero plan
What else is important today
Altmaier calls the preservation of the retail trade a "patriotic task":
The Minister of Economic Affairs wants to make up for the sales losses from this year with more Sunday shopping next year.
Saving the retail trade is a "national task".
TÜV detects dangerous defects in 4200 elevators:
elevators must be checked for reliability every year.
With thousands of elevators, the defects were so great that they were shut down by the TÜV.
Iran releases Australian-British researcher:
The Islamic scholar Kylie Moore-Gilbert is released after two years in an Iranian prison.
According to media reports, three men have been released for them from a prison in Thailand.
YouTube blocks Trump's new favorite channel OANN:
The One America News Network is no longer allowed to publish new videos on YouTube for seven days.
The reason: The conservative cable channel had advertised an alleged miracle drug against Covid-19.
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My topic of the week:
Diego Maradona died yesterday, a national hero, a sanctuary, a football god - these were just some of the attributes used to somehow do justice to the man who is considered the greatest footballer of all time.
Peter Ahrens
writes in his obituary, "Diego Armando Maradona went through the highest heights and the deepest lows of a life".
The Argentine-German writer
Ariel Magnus
says in an emotional guest post:
“
For you, Maradona is just a person.
For us, however, it is a monument. «
Klaus Ehringfeld
describes from South America how Argentina reacts to the death of the athlete and
Danial Montazieri
goes through a game with Maradona again with a 90-minute tactical analysis.
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Little man, really big
Photo:
imago sportfotodienst / imago images / Laci Perenyi
Obituary by Peter Ahrens for Maradona
Guest contribution by Ariel Magnus
Report from South America on the reactions to death
Tactical analysis of a Maradona game
The most beautiful pictures from Maradona's life
Typo of the day
, now corrected: "The younger brother of Crown Princess Victoria and his wife would have
gone into quarantine at home with their children
on Wednesday with mild
hospital
symptoms."
Cartoon of the day:
compromise
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Klaus Stuttmann
And tonight?
I propose two things for you at home, everything else should be avoided:
Penguins in front of »Polarstern«
Photo: A9999 Db Alfred Wegener Institute / dpa / dpaweb
Do you still remember the German research vessel »Polarstern«?
Last year the ship froze in the ice of the Arctic and then drifted along with the floes.
So the effects of global warming should be examined.
It was the most complex polar expedition of all time.
The expedition leader Markus Rex has written a book about it and will tell you about his experiences this evening from 8 p.m. in a live stream from the Hamburg planetarium.
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Feldenkirchen before Laschet
Photo: WDR / Beckground TV
If you read these recommendations after 8 p.m. and missed the live stream with Markus Rex or are more politically interested, please take a look at a new format by my SPIEGEL colleague Markus Feldenkirchen.
He accompanied the NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet with a television team for a year and made a portrait out of it, which will be broadcast today at 8:15 p.m. on WDR.
The highlight: Markus has already shown the film to Laschet - and he was allowed to make his comments live.
It is interesting to see what the candidate for the CDU chairmanship says when a citizen from Moers attests to him that he cannot be a Chancellor because he is "too good" for that.
The film is also available in the media library.
I wish you a nice evening,
Yours Janko Tietz
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