1.
The vaccination turbo
Oh,
Germany overtakes the previous Schnellimpfer
USA and Great Britain.
In the past week, there was an average of
0.78 vaccine doses
per 100 inhabitants in this country
;
It was only faster in
Qatar (0.93),
Uruguay (0.95)
and the front runner
Hungary (1.3).
That gives hope.
There are supposed to be one or the other actor who stopped reading the newspaper because the Corona news was too bad for him.
According to the toddler principle: what I can't see isn't there either.
Is it possible that these people are missing the good news now?
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Most important commandment: distribute in the arms
Photo: Michael Kappeler / dpa
For example: By mid-June, three-quarters of those eligible for vaccination in Germany, as it is called bureaucratically, could have received the first injection - by July even all of them, as my colleague Julia Merlot from our science department reports.
"Some producers are delivering more than announced, the general practitioners are accelerating enormously - and soon the company doctors will also be able to join in," she says.
(Of course there are also problems, such as
a minority's
unwillingness to vaccinate
- more on that here.)
Or this: Many restrictions will soon fall for those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered.
If everything works out, politics will get it underway this week (more here).
Before you start cheering:
Oktoberfest
has also been canceled for this year.
More background information here: The crux of the matter is vaccination
2.
The game battle
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Played out: final boss in the symbol image hell
Photo: DADO RUVIC / REUTERS
A process begins overnight in California that could transform the app business on the iPhone.
The "Fortnite" developer
Epic Games
does
not
want to give
Apple
any more of the sales through the app store.
Are you, like me, not so familiar with
"Fortnite"
and the intricacies of the app business?
Here my colleague Markus Böhm from our Netzwelt department explains the background.
3.
The hubris drive
The construction of the
Tesla factory in Brandenburg was
supposed to move faster, faster and faster
.
Elon, the impatient, Musk shows it to the German bureaucracy - this is how the carmaker presented itself.
Why wait for permits?
Just get started with preliminary approvals, plant systems out of the ground, deposit 100 million euros as security in the event that everything has to be dismantled.
What does the world cost?
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Tesla construction site in Grünheide
Photo: Sean Gallup / Getty Images
But now you can read about delays - maybe the
Gigafactory wo
n't be finished in summer, but only in winter.
"And this time the blame cannot be passed on to any bureaucrats," says my colleague Micky Kröger from our economic department.
"This time, it looks like Musk is throwing a spanner in the works." Tesla now wants to expand the plant to include a battery factory.
"With that, the company basically sets everything back to the beginning," says Micky.
Together with our colleague Markus Dettmer, he researched how the automaker shot himself up against the ambitious schedule.
Read the full story here: Everything from the beginning at Tesla
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What else is important today
BKA switches off a large platform with child abuse material:
"Boystown", with 400,000 users most recently, was one of the largest platforms for the exchange of material that shows child sexual abuse.
Three alleged perpetrators in Germany were arrested.
NASA helicopters are allowed to fly longer:
Despite a failure last week, NASA speaks of a resounding success and has extended Ingenuity's Mars mission.
The mini helicopter has now set a new record.
Facebook's “Supreme Court” decides on Trump's accounts:
Will ex-US President Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts remain permanently banned?
The largely independent Oversight Board announced its decision this week.
My favorite quote today: Augstein about the press
Augstein: Better Börne than Boerne
Photo: dpa
Today is
International Press Freedom Day
.
It can't hurt to quote Rudolf Augstein, especially at SPIEGEL.
The man who once went to jail for freedom of the press - but who also warned not to take himself as a supposed fourth power: “You are reminded of the beautiful story of the Hungarian shoemaker being in a small village Edited one-month papers and happily muttering to himself: 'What will the tsar be upset on Monday?' «(More Augstein sayings here.)
What we recommend today at SPIEGEL +
What would be better than a wealth tax:
Greens, SPD and leftists want an extra tax for the rich and companies.
Experts think that is nonsensical.
Because there is a simple alternative.
How a former pub became the place of hope for these children:
They want Corona to finally end: Eleni, Dragos and Beatrice from Gelsenkirchen tell how they experienced the crisis - and why they did not receive the promised tablets.
The BND - pomposity, blenders, Nazis:
a historian's commission examined how successful the spies of the Federal Intelligence Service were in the fifties and sixties.
Your judgment is harsh.
Which is not so important today
Photo: Jens Kalaene / dpa
Opacht
: The actor
Uwe Ochsenknecht
, 65, who has been a grandfather since the end of March, wants to hold back on advice, as he told the newspapers of the Funke media group.
“It's annoying when you meddle too much.
We also know that from our parents and grandparents. "
Typo of the day
, corrected in the meantime: "The goal machine Simon Terodde only scored four times in the second half of the season."
Cartoon of the day:
Scholzman
Photo: Klaus Stuttmann
And tonight?
Could you
hear
Billie Eilish's
new single "Your Power" out
on Friday.
In the song, the 19-year-old US singer admonishes men not to abuse their power over young girls and women.
Eilish has now undergone a public optical change in a “spectacular gesture of self-empowerment”, as my colleague Andreas Borcholte says.
In a photo series for the British »Vogue« she shows herself for the first time not in the informal casual clothes that had become her trademark together with her green and black hair, but freely as a blonde vamp in the style of classic Hollywood bombshells like Marilyn Monroe.
Photo: billieeilish / Instagram
"For a long time she withdrew her body from the public eye, which was rightly interpreted as a position of strength, because she made it clear that you can become a successful pop star without submitting to a body economy forced by the media or to a physical pressure to optimize yourself," analyzed Andreas.
"But it is just as strong when she dares to stage her body in addition to her art." Apparently she feels more comfortable and confident in her own skin and now wants to show that too - regardless of the judgments of others.
"This is a courageous, exemplary step, and that makes her all the more one of the most important role models of her generation." (More here.)
A lovely evening.
Sincerely
yours, Oliver Trenkamp
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