Artist protest against lockdown: Violent reactions are an expression of growing intolerance

Fortunately, the horror prognoses did not come true, but they did create a climate of fear.

One can criticize the resulting artist protest “making everything sealing” - but only with fair means.

A comment.

It's true: Depressing scenes take place in the intensive care units. After the seniors, in the third wave the virus hits the younger ones harder. And every dead person, every seriously ill person is one too many. But the truth also includes: The horror prognoses of the Robert Koch Institute from March, which provided the music to accompany the “Merkel Lockdown”, were spectacularly wrong. We are a long way from the 7-day incidence of over 300 forecast for mid-April. This is even more true of the much-noticed calculations by other scientists, some of which predicted incidences of 2000.

The RKI Deputy Chief recently declared that there were “positive aspects”.

Luckily.

But it still leaves a stale aftertaste when the RKI dismisses its mistake so succinctly.

Without the climate of fear that was generated with such shrill warnings of an unchecked exponential spread of the virus, the Chancellor would hardly have got her Infection Protection Act with its serious encroachments on civil liberties over the parliamentary hurdles - and the Prime Ministers would not have been forced to cautiously To cancel pilot projects for a living with the virus.

Artist protest against lockdown: treat each other fairly

We have to be fair to each other. This also applies to the artists' protest “Make everything tight”. Even if one can criticize the action: It is infamous and an expression of growing intolerance to turn the actors into cues for AfD and lateral thinkers. Anyone who does that has no desire to deal with arguments. And anyone who, like an SPD politician in the WDR Broadcasting Council, calls for a performance ban for the artists, should rather end their own performance. Professional bans, we've already had that in Germany. And it didn't do us any good.