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Sweeter the bells, you know.
At least the bells, one would like to sigh this year, everything else has to do with a sweet sound in a rudimentary way.
Unless you can win the charm of Söder's idiom, verse one: And see, I'm announcing the hard lockdown to you.
"Meetings with four people who go beyond their own household are allowed in the closest family circle," says the exception rule for the holidays nationwide.
There was also a nightly curfew after 9 p.m. in Bavaria and after 10 p.m. in Saxony.
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Jens Radü
, 40, has three children and in wise moments asks himself who is raising whom here - and if so, why not?
Seriously: What should you want out there for the next few weeks, at night, and in Bavaria as well?
To go for a walk?
And fall into some crevice in the rock, mountain rescue, tatütata !, no thanks.
So: The shutdown is just as necessary as it is overdue, the virus believes neither in the Christ Child nor in Santa Claus, and we would all have quieter nights with the chance for the vast majority of years if we did not follow the exception rules on the holidays except for to exhaust the last "people who go beyond their own household".
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