Today we deal with general practitioners, with silent nights, with a right block, with painful memories and with jokes.
When, unfortunately, the school friend is an orthopedic surgeon
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn will speak at a press conference today about what he
expects
from the
vaccinations in the general practitioners' practices
.
They're starting these days.
All around I feel a certain vaccination fever.
Some have made appointments by remembering the terrible pre-existing illnesses that lie dormant in their bodies.
Others remember school friends who became internists.
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The rush for corona vaccinations is great (symbol picture)
Photo: HMB Media / Julien Becker / imago images / HMB-Media
The word "list" is now booming.
You want to get on
a doctor's
vaccination list
.
I want that too, but can only show a harmless and very seldom onset of asthma.
Unfortunately, my school friend decided to do orthopedics, which is why he is not allowed to vaccinate yet.
The previous prioritization according to risk groups will in any case be eroded in the coming weeks, I'm sure of that.
If this prevents the vaccine from getting stuck, I think that's fine.
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Horror word curfew
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Woman in the almost deserted city center of Hanover (symbol picture): From today there is a night curfew
Photo:
Julian Stratenschulte / dpa
For the
Hanover region there
is a curfew from 10 p.m. today until 5 a.m. tomorrow.
This rule is limited to twelve days.
The citizens of Peine or Celle already know this state of affairs, the people of Hamburg will soon get to know it, and many others too.
I associate the word curfew with military jeeps rolling through the streets at night, with armed patrols asking for permits, with the first days after a coup or the conquest of a city, with dictatorship.
A scary word.
For this reason,
Chancellor Merkel
has long tried to avoid the word and the state of curfew.
She relied on contact restrictions and other measures to contain the crisis.
But now she has given up this resistance and has already spoken out in favor of curfews.
The pandemic drove them there, just as the pandemic drove many people to accept curfews.
I could live with it too.
That's because I still trust this state and its actors, still assume that they mean well with us, want to protect us and lift the curfews as soon as they are no longer necessary to fight the pandemic.
Still, I feel a bit queasy.
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Illiberal bloc
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Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
Photo: BARTOSZ SIEDLIK / AFP
Prime Minister
Viktor Orbán received
his colleague Mateusz Morawiecki from Poland and the party chairman of the Italian Lega, Matteo Salvini,
in Budapest
today.
These three gentlemen think little of liberal democracy and want to probe whether their
right-wing populist parties
could unite
in a bloc in the European Parliament.
The division of Europe would further deepen that.
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Global Nation?
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Holocaust memorial in Berlin
Photo: Florian Gaertner / photothek.de / imago images / photothek
Gradually the contours of a new
historians'
dispute are emerging
.
The question is whether the Holocaust can be compared with other major crimes.
In the first German historians' dispute in the mid-1980s, the prevailing stance was: No, the German mass murder of the Jews is singular.
This position is being contested today and called "provincial" because it narrows the view and largely ignores the crimes of colonialism, for example.
My colleague Tobias Rapp described this controversy a few weeks ago in SPIEGEL and showed sympathy for the "provincial" position.
Two historians in the new "era," Jürgen Zimmerer, Africa expert at the University of Hamburg, and Michael Rothberg, Holocaust expert at the University of California in Los Angeles, are now responding to this and other texts.
They oppose "provinciality" with "multidirectionality".
Research on colonialism would not suppress the memory of the Holocaust, but expand it by opening up new perspectives through comparison.
If there really is a big debate, that can only be a good thing.
The first historians' dispute sealed the arrival of the Federal Republic in the West.
What is still missing is the step towards a
global nation
.
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Loser of the day ...
... are
everyone who falls for an April Fool's joke.
The latest news from the night
"I bought crack on the streets of Washington DC":
It's about drug and alcohol addiction, family tragedies - and the help of his father: Hunter Biden has published his memoir.
Now he's getting tight-lipped when it comes to Ukraine
New York legalizes cannabis use:
Adults in New York will be allowed to own cannabis and grow plants for their own consumption.
This makes the state the 15th in the USA - and hopes that this will generate additional tax revenue
15 million vaccine doses become unusable after a breakdown:
The talk is of human error: According to a media report, the ingredients of two vaccine preparations were mixed in a US factory.
The consequences could be significant in the medium term
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I wish you a good start to the day.
Yours Dirk Kurbjuweit
