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Corona summit: Guesswork about Merkel's lockdown graphic - one rule is missing

2021-03-04T11:58:33.855Z


Status: It's complicated. The lockdown plan proposed by Angela Merkel and Co. also confuses top politicians. A graphic should help.


Status: It's complicated.

The lockdown plan proposed by Angela Merkel and Co. also confuses top politicians.

A graphic should help.

Update from March 4, 12.25 p.m.:

A graphic became an eye-catcher around the Corona summit on Wednesday: "On a DINA4 page", the federal government visualized the new opening plans for Germany, such as Berlin's Governing Mayor Michael Müller (SPD) at the press conference on Wednesday evening, apparently also in defense of the new rules, said that criticism of the complexity of the plans was not long in coming.

However, some observers found not only the regulations confusing, but also the graphical representation.

Faults in the graphics were discussed on the internet.

taz journalist Malte Kreutzfeld, for example, pointed out that it was not noted that opening steps four and five should only come if the “incidence has not worsened for 14 days”.

He certainly suspected a signal in the absence of the regulation: "Let's see how seriously this is taken."

For obvious reasons, the paper had been adapted again compared to a previously circulated version (see initial report).

Finally, among other things, the incidence limit for the most far-reaching openings had been increased from 35 to 50.

The final product - which Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz, among others, shared again on Twitter - is still not complete.

The contact rules, including the new possibility to meet three households in areas with an incidence below 35, are not found in it.

In general, only the “magic” incidence values ​​50 and 100 are mentioned.

Corona summit: Complex graphic shows Merkel's plan for easing - in 29 elements

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What is the corona situation like?

Olaf Scholz and Angela Merkel use tools in the lockdown debate.

© Christoph Hardt / www.imago-images.de

Initial report:

Berlin - a lesson from the first Corona summits: Meanwhile, representatives of the federal and state governments are sounding out the disputes days before the conference.

Germany saw the first results this time on Tuesday.

A draft resolution from the pen of Chancellor Angela Merkel, her Vice Olaf Scholz and the regional leaders Markus Söder and Michael Müller, dated Monday evening.

The paper is likely to have reached the public intentionally.

It was not until the day of the summit that a speaking detail of these preliminary talks was made public in a small group.

The people in the state were able to see with their own eyes: The complex plans of the federal and state governments for a step-by-step plan out of the lockdown are blooming - but in any case colorful graphics.

Lockdown in Germany: Corona summit debates complex opening plan - Scholz had graphics created

Because Vice Chancellor Scholz (SPD) has apparently specially commissioned the creation of a visualization to make the individual steps easier to understand.

This is what the

picture

reported

shortly before the start of the summit.

The resulting graphic could also be viewed in the short message service Twitter.

So should be opened.

THIS graphic, which was created on the initiative of Vice Chancellor Scholz, was discussed in advance in the advertisements.

@ PICTURE pic.twitter.com/hvB9hrVIpU

- Paul Ronzheimer (@ronzheimer) March 3, 2021

A total of 29 graphic elements were required to illustrate the plans.

At the same time, the additional document provides more information than the circulating draft resolutions: Apparently, the easing linked to incidences 35 and 100 should actually be able to come into force from March 8th - and not from March 28th, for example.

According to the information available, the current lockdown should generally be extended up to this date.

Corona summit: the emergency brake is missing in Scholz's graphic - politicians doubt whether easing will become a reality

The graph does not show the “emergency brake” that is also being considered with equal clarity: at incidences above the value of 100, the easing is planned to be withdrawn and the hard lockdown will come into force again.

An arrow from each field back to “Start” would have been another helpful visualization.

Critics of the planning meanwhile doubt whether the easing will even take effect in a significant number of regions.

"The values ​​are not achieved, so there are no openings," said a participant at the Prime Minister's Conference of the

picture

.

FDP leader Christian Lindner made a similar statement on Tuesday.

The connection between the broad use of rapid tests and the further opening steps is "paradoxical," he said on Tuesday.

If the number of tests is expanded, there will be “by the nature of things more people who have tested positive”.

In this procedure, a “permanently extended lockdown is applied”.

Another loosening seemed to tip over during the preliminary talks: The separate contact rules for the Easter holidays.

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Source: merkur

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