Enlarge image
The lockdown for everyone is coming: Police officers on St. Pauli in Hamburg
Photo: Jonas Walzberg / picture alliance / dpa
Every now and then I look at the comments under the columns here, which is sometimes very interesting. Two weeks ago it was about whether vaccinated people would de facto become "hostages" of the (voluntarily) unvaccinated, almost 8000 comments, the unfortunately already accustomed zeal from the corner of the opponents of vaccination or even lateral thinkers, but for the first time also visible: one The anger of the vaccinated against the unvaccinated was hardly curbed by language. Holy Bimmbam, I thought to myself, if the majority in the country is now going crazy, black Christmas is coming.
Of course, even those who are used to grief have to admit: At least the people have reason to be pissed off at the political failure of the state in the federal and state levels.
I would still accept that some warnings about the extent of the next corona wave were not immediately taken seriously because modelers who do their mathematics as an extreme sport sometimes spoke up.
We also had an election campaign and a flood of the century, which required a lot of attention.
However, there is no, absolutely no excuse that the 15 to 25 million calendar-fixed foreseeable booster vaccinations have been so poorly prepared, the vaccination centers are closed and the family doctors are annoyed.
Likewise, there is absolutely no explanation why - already half buried under the corona wave - the traffic light parties wanted to declare large parts of the intervention instruments obsolete, raved about the expiry of all restrictions next March and popularized criticism of it nasally and nasally to answer legally.
In short: those responsible are offending with full force the two-thirds of the population who have carried them through the 18 months since the beginning of the pandemic.
The same haphazard politicians let it happen that soon day after day those who are voluntarily vaccinated could become involuntarily unvaccinated because they did not receive their booster vaccinations in time.
In this script of disaster, the next chapter has already been written: Lockdown for everyone.
Many scientists speak to him, Austria has decided so, Bavaria and Saxony are already quite far, other federal states will follow.
Come on, be honest, that's called an "emergency brake" if you want politicians to be scientifically well.
Or "Oath of Revelation" if you have political eyes on your head.
One can guess what all of this will do with the vaccinated majority, which has shown itself to be bourgeois in the best sense of the word: conscientious and dutiful, willing to take responsibility and certainly also with a firm eye on the reward offered.
"Vaccination is the way out of the pandemic", for each individual and for everyone together, how often have we heard this sentence and how firmly did we believe it?
But if we all equally have to go back into lockdown, the sentence sounds like mockery - and the mockery of those who oppose the vaccination, which makes it doubly bitter. The societal narrative of, yes, redemption, of freedom and handing over the old life again, is falling apart. The individual vaccination dividend is turned into ashes, 2G into "vaccinated and lacquered". So back to square one, promised, broken, messed up.
The (voluntarily) unvaccinated are not solely to blame, certainly not. But they are by far the most superfluous part of the problem, and so the majority is blowing them more and more in the face: According to the RTL survey in June, only 22 percent of those surveyed wanted a general vaccination, in mid-November it was 64 percent. In other words: In the beginning, many vaccinated people were against a general compulsory vaccination, today (arithmetically) as good as none of them. The almost total rejection of bonuses as a vaccination incentive remained stable, between 87 and 90 percent of those surveyed between August and November. The vaccination hesitators have never been granted anything, now they are wished that they should be vaccinated.
Next example: If 3G will soon apply at the workplace, some will go in normally at the factory gate or office entrance and show their vaccination card, while others (have to) get tested because they are not vaccinated.
"Vaccination outing" at the workplace is what a clever colleague of these days called it.
And I involuntarily thought of: Forced outing.
The vaccination hesitators have never been granted anything, now they are wished that they should be vaccinated.
Since December last year (column: Compulsory vaccination, what else?) I have been speaking out in favor of social or state-controlled pressure on people who have not been vaccinated voluntarily to induce them to be vaccinated.
In individual cases, the state and society have the right to ensure broad application of a norm that has been formulated by the majority; in a manifest pandemic, in my opinion, they even have an obligation to do so.
Nevertheless, it did not succeed, and one sees with great sorrow how it is the good-natured who are now mad or despair about it - and not the stubborn.
more on the subject
Corona strategy: Compulsory vaccination for everyone - that would now be the fairest solution A comment by Sophie Garbe
If you want to know where the social pressure test will go, take note of the small change that the Saxon state government made at the weekend to the statutory working time limit: In the Saxon crematoria, every employee can now work twelve hours a day.
Burn corpses.
