Only dimensional tightening is decided by the Bund-Country Summit in the face of the projecting omikron wave.
And the Bavarian Markus Söder even brakes with new measures.
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A comment by Georg Anastasiadis.
Just four weeks is the Chancellor away, because Union faction leader Ralph Brinkhaus is already overpaid by nostalgic feelings. Under Angela Merkel, it went much better in pandemic fighting than under her successor Olaf Scholz, the current opposition leader will find. Oh yes? Have you forgotten the vaccine procurement debacle? The two susceptible summer, before the new waves piled up in the fall - all over?
The old government was only good at locking up. Brinkhaus would like to have that again now: He would like to shut down the catering trade completely, even allowing vaccinated citizens to only meet in the smallest circle. The traffic light government is opposed to this, and rightly so. As long as an overload of the health system is not foreseeable, it is correct to put on "moderate" restrictions, as demanded by FDP boss Lindner.
One thing is clear: if the situation continues to worsen, that need not have been the last word. But to beat the panic drum again, as Brinkhaus is doing, is not a responsible policy, but flat shouting of the opposition. Not even the old boss of the caution team, Markus Söder, wants to join in more. On the contrary: In Bavaria, the CSU Prime Minister does not want to implement the nationwide 2Gplus tightening for the catering industry for the time being. Good this way! Fortunately, 35 million German citizens have now been boosted. Especially the older ones should have built up a certain protection against the luckily milder Omikron variant. This is also thanks to the new Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, who, barely in office, pushed the booster campaign forward with all his might.That was much more important than hectically locking everything up again.