Corona easing for Christmas: at the end there is a treat

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Photo: Kurt Klingner

The Germans are allowed to celebrate Christmas and New Year's Eve, in somewhat larger groups, with family, with friends, the tight corona corset is untied for a few days, a little laissez-faire in the otherwise so strictly regulated pandemic life.

Politicians have declared a ten-day Corona vacation, only in some hotspots like Berlin the rules remain stricter.

From a medical point of view, the loosening is a mistake and completely illogical.

The number of new infections is not falling as significantly as desired, the number of corona deaths is increasing.

On Friday alone, 426 deaths were reported in a single day, an unacceptable record.

The number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care units has increased 15-fold since the beginning of September.

The plan of politics to reduce interpersonal contacts by 75 percent in November has failed - so far it has only been 40 percent.

And so the goal of saving lives, not overloading the health system and protecting doctors from having to decide who can survive and who must die is threatened.

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