Jog only before midnight
Curfew.
What a terrible word.
In a liberal society, who wants to be dictated when to go outside with whom?
However, this pandemic has already called into question many certainties, some in a very painful way - and
from today the automatic, nationwide Corona emergency brake applies.
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Night curfew in Cologne
Photo: Christoph Hardt / imago images / Future Image
Among other things, this provides: If the seven-day incidence in a district or city is over 100 for three days, people are only allowed to leave their house or apartment between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. in exceptional cases.
Walking or jogging is allowed until midnight.
Alone.
In some places such curfews have been in place for a long time, some of them are even stricter - and should stay that way.
So much for the desired uniformity of the measures.
Private contacts are also restricted further during the day, and stricter rules are in place for business.
With the current infection process, this will apply in over 345 of 412 districts and urban districts.
At an incidence of 165 or more, schools have to return to distance teaching, which will affect students in more than 140 districts as of now.
Is that proportionate now? This will finally be clarified by the Federal Constitutional Court,
in Karlsruhe there are already several lawsuits pending against the new Infection Protection Act, which are primarily directed against the exit restrictions.
The fact is: All the
federal states
that are now complaining (despite approval or abstention in the Federal Council) that the federal government is interfering with their crisis management, have to
ascribe
precisely that to
themselves.
You could have fought much more consistently against the third wave much earlier.
Then the emergency brake would not have to be pulled in all of Germany today.
Corona mutants: Virus on the run
Sometimes snotty, sometimes flat
Well, already annoyed by
Annalena Baerbock
?
Everywhere stories about the Green Chancellor candidate, SPIEGEL also shows them on the cover of the new issue.
But do not worry: In the cover story you will not expect a cheer, but a cool analysis of Baerbock's strengths and weaknesses.
Can she be Chancellor?
Or better vice?
And with whom would the Greens harmonize best in a possible federal government?
You can read the answers here.
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Annalena Baerbock
Photo: Dominik Butzmann / Dominik Butzmann / DER SPIEGEL
The interest in Baerbock is not only so great because the Greens are making a claim to the Chancellery for the first time. It's also down to their competitors:
Compared to Baerbock, Armin Laschet and Olaf Scholz look pretty old.
Two men, 60 and 62, from many years of government practice, against a 40-year-old member of the Bundestag with no government experience. "It stands for a fresh attitude towards life, a break with political conventions, a new beginning," writes my colleague Martin Knobbe in the SPIEGEL editorial. "It meets the longing of many who are tired of Angela Merkel after 16 years, exhausted from the sluggish corona policy and the testosterone-heavy power struggles in the Union."
But a fresh attitude towards life will not be enough to carry Baerbock through five months of the election campaign. Nor is it enough as a government program.
"Anyone striving for radical change must explain how they want to achieve it and who should pay for it," writes Martin. Click here for the leading article.
If, despite the numerous portraits, you still have the feeling that you have not really come close to this Annalena Baerbock, I recommend
the personal memories of my colleague Malte Müller-Michaelis
of the woman who wants to reach for power today. He studied political science with her at the University of Hamburg, danced and drank with her in the Hamburger Kaiserkeller, hijacked her birthday party with a horde of drunk buddies, played soccer against her at her own wedding.
"When I see her on television today, I don't notice any significant differences to my fellow student from back then," writes Malte, even if Annalena Baerbock has acquired "this typical style of politician."
»
I miss her spontaneity in public perception, her snottiness and her sometimes subtle, sometimes flat sense of humor.
But it would probably also be inappropriate if she were to throw affectionate insults about her in her current position, as she did in the past. "
Read the whole story here - including photos from the time we were studying together: Lenchen and me
Savior from the right
What
does
Hans-Georg Maaßen
, the native Rhinelander who lives in Berlin, have in common with southern Thuringia?
In one of its rare interviews, the "Freie Wort" declared that it had been here before, in 1987, when a student was passing through.
The local CDU is apparently enough at home, they want to set up the former
President of the Office for the
Protection of the Constitution
as a direct candidate for the Bundestag
.
Maaßen is supposed to defend constituency 196 (Suhl-Schmalkalden-Meiningen-Hildburghausen-Sonneberg) for the Christian Democrats.
He has been represented for eight years by Mark Hauptmann, who had to withdraw because of two affairs (Azerbaijan and Masks).
The chances that Maassen will actually be set up on April 30th are good.
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Hans-Georg Maassen
Photo: ARI / imago images
But why he of all people? My colleague Steffen Winter pursued this question.
"It is no coincidence that Maaßen hits this somewhat remote region," writes Steffen in the new SPIEGEL. "A rebellion has been raging here since the last state election."
The local CDU MP Michael Heym had brought a collaboration with the AfD into play at the time. Local politicians helped him. Someone like Maaßen, who has moved further and further to the right since he was kicked out at the end of 2018, fits in well here.
Criticism from the Thuringian CDU regional leadership and from the federal headquarters leave most of the South Thuringian Christian Democrats indifferent - one does not want to be told any more about "those from Berlin" here.
Christopher Other, head of the CDU district association Hildburghausen, says we know how polarizing Maassen is.
But awareness is helpful for the big goal of winning the constituency.
They could not take into account federal politics.
Incidentally, Maaßen had promised to settle in the region.
Right-wing interpreter wants to go to the Bundestag: of all things, Maassen is supposed to save the Thuringian CDU
Loser of the day ...
... are the actors behind the #allesdichtmachen campaign.
I encountered the first videos on Twitter late Thursday evening when I was writing this newsletter for the following Friday.
Great excitement, outrage - wow, what's going on?
I watched a couple of the films, Jan-Josef Liefers, Martin Brambach, thought: Are they serious?
So what's behind the irony?
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Screenshot of the internet campaign #allesdichtmachen
Photo: - / dpa
I then pondered it for an hour: If I can't get it through with a tired brain, do those involved have an ingenious meta-message that is actually directed against those who are now applauding them?
Hans-Georg Maassen.
AfD politician.
Lateral thinker.
As a precaution, I did not take up the topic in my text for Friday.
In the meantime I am almost reassured: No,
the whole thing has failed as it seems at first glance.
Maybe well-intentioned by some, but certainly not well done.
Some like Heike Makatsch or Richy Müller have now distanced themselves intelligently, others justify themselves.
In the end, it is clear that if there is so much need for explanation, then something may be wrong.
The bad thing is: you could have known beforehand.
Video comment on #allesdichtmachen: »As a film, this campaign should be called› cerebellar chicks ‹«
The latest news from the night
Putin wants to introduce a list of "unfriendly foreign states":
In Russia diplomatic representatives of some nations could soon have a harder time.
According to President Vladimir Putin's will, only friendly states will in future be allowed to work without restrictions
Ex-advisor to Boris Johnson defends himself against leak allegations:
The British ex-government
advisor
Dominic Cummings is accused of piercing confidential text messages from Boris Johnson.
Now he is fighting back - and strikes out against Britain's prime minister
Aldi apologizes after a racism incident - and dismisses employees:
A Berliner was apparently racially insulted in an Aldi branch.
While he was filming the incident, he was expelled from the store manager.
Aldi Nord reacted and dismissed the employee
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Have a good weekend.
Heartily,
Your Philipp Wittrock
