The vaccination requirement is de facto dead - now everything depends on the corona plans of the traffic light
Created: 03/11/2022, 05:40
By: Christian Deutschländer
Christian Deutschländer comments on the upcoming relaxation of the corona virus and urges vigilance.
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In a few days, far-reaching corona loosening is coming up.
Politicians must remain quick to react and must not become careless, comments Christian Deutschländer.
Munich – The big Berlin plan for the Corona rules this summer creaks, crunches and gets stuck.
No wonder, in the traffic light, two completely opposite concepts are somehow screwed together: the (too) rigid green pandemic course and the (too) careless one of the FDP.
Attention: At the moment the Ukraine war is outshining every political debate, but Corona is still too unpredictable for a few quick formula compromises.
Corona loosening: Politics must remain responsive
On March 19, the federal regulatory framework can be greatly relaxed, with personal responsibility as the guiding principle.
Omikron primarily plagues the economy with many staff shortages, but does not drive the clinics to collapse - and only the latter justifies hefty encroachments on fundamental rights.
Perhaps a quiet early summer is approaching, almost without restrictions.
But politics must remain responsive.
Where numbers skyrocket dangerously or mutations appear, regional government must act immediately with masks, G-rules, upper limits.
Clear competences – please no multi-week decision chains from parliaments and sub-authorities during breaks in meetings or on Thursday weekends, delegated by fax and message in a bottle.
Base line: Fast, energetic and permanently loosen where people want to go voluntarily;
Caution and masks at higher incidences where they need to go, including public transport and school.
Corona vaccination de facto dead
Courage: Yes!
Lightheartedness: hopefully!
Carelessness: Don't!
It now depends on the Berlin rules.
Mainly because the vaccination requirement in the Omicron environment is de facto dead.
A maximum of one preliminary decision of the Bundestag is still possible.
And even that would not help in time if another bad Corona fall came.