Merkel meeting: The threat of tightening the rules for contacts would be unworldly

The number of new infections is now falling.

Angela Merkel pleads for further tightening of the lockdown with a view to the virus mutations.

What to do?

A comment.

Munich - The week starts with good news: For the first time since autumn, the trend towards ever higher infection numbers in Germany seems to have stopped.

This also changed the music to accompany the Chancellor's Corona summit with the 16 prime ministers -

Angela Merkel

would (actually) no longer have to be the conductor of a panic orchestra, and the strict "lockdowner"

Söder

no longer has to play first fiddle - a circumstance that suits the possible chancellor candidate in view of the growing resistance to the policy of locking up.

Not the

Bavarians

have to sharpen specific points

, but others.

Even the opponents of an increasingly hard lockdown cannot object to

an

FFP2 mask requirement

.

Unfortunately, it is still too early to give the all-clear.

But neither is this the time of the Lauterbachs, who would now also like to

switch off

the

economy

.

Before the Corona summit with Merkel: Citizens need a bit of reliability

Fortunately, the data do not provide that.

In

Munich

the incidence values ​​have fallen from a good 300 to a little over 100.

The measures work, even if some things - such as limiting the contacts of a household to only one third individual - are unworldly and punish those who are already well behaved, while others do not care about the rules.

In any case, one thing does not work: Now that the situation in the

intensive care units

is finally improving and the

incidences

decline, simply change the reason

again and tighten

the

lockdown

again - now with reference to the threatening British mutation.

Citizens need a bit of reliability.

The people know that we have to drive on sight for a while, even without having to hold the index finger threateningly under their noses every day.

It would be more important that politicians finally get the

vaccination chaos

under control.

After all, that and nothing else will ultimately decide the success and failure of the German

corona crisis management

.

Israel shows how it works.

A comment by Georg Anastasiadis