Germany is in an extremely polarized situation.
Heads of state hover between lockdown and easing.
Model projects help at least a little.
A comment.
Munich - There are dark, almost fatalistic sentences with which CDU Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer describes the mood of his Saxons in the middle of the third wave.
There is “no more seeing for the drama”, only the “unbelievable desire to have openings now”.
Politics is no longer getting through, it will be as fatal as in the Czech Republic.
That's true, especially in Kretschmer's Free State, where four out of ten voters have drifted to the radical fringes.
But it is only part of the situation.
At the same time, a third of German citizens are calling for stricter measures, and another 38 percent are against loosening the ARD Germany trend.
How does that fit together?
It has probably never been so difficult to make politics as it is in this extremely polarized situation.
That does not excuse technical mistakes like those made by Merkel's Chancellery Minister during the Easter rest period.
Especially not the EU vaccination disaster and the German test bureaucracy.
But it explains the strange fidgeting of many prime ministers between lockdown and easing.
Corona in Germany: The number of model projects for openings will decrease, but their value will increase
Politics will be heading for tightening again after Easter.
If the intensive occupancy has already risen sharply, that is too late, but it is still helpful.
The number of model projects for openings will decrease, but their value will increase: Because there is perspective and hope that a more colorful life is possible with daily tests and hygiene concepts.
That won't pacify the zero-covid preachers;
And certainly not the maskless demos in Kretschmer's cities, because they don't even want to go to the opera.
But the model projects help in the midst of society to gain time and patience in the race between vaccines and mutants.
A comment by Christian Deutschländer
