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In the 1980s, the title track of the children’s quiz show “1, 2, or 3” ended with the phrase “You’ll see if you’re right when the lights come on!” Players were divided into numerical fields in the more or less dark study, at their discretion, if answer 1, 2, or 3 was correct. Then everything held its breath, the children on television and at home too, and finally the number lit up with the correct answer.
It could be the clink of these days and weeks, and the question is: when will the lights come on? So when do we see if we are right?
With our opinion, but also with what we do out there. So if the measures taken by the federal and state governments in the crown crisis are wrong or right, they are, were or will be appropriate. We citizens and politicians do not know.
Also: the one with the light can still take a while.
Armin Laschet, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, impressively showed the popular and pervasive meaning of the term “driving in plain sight” for a politician, and especially for someone with concrete responsibility, that is, for a federal state, the Sunday night in “Anne” Will. “Above all, it means complete uncertainty. Armin Laschet tore the hat rope visible to everyone due to the disaster that politics had given Corona, probably: he had to resign.
I regret prominently
Therefore, Laschet described the changing goals of science, that politicians must somehow lag behind with their decisions. Based on the slogan “in any case to avoid catastrophe”, that is, to avoid Bergamo in Germany, the focus first focused on doubling the number, according to Laschet, who in turn had been replaced by the so-called R. factor. that the CDU politician almost shouted that this would soon no longer play a role and that it would only be “a few hundred cases”: infections. Everything was swept, we know, we were in the process of different evaluations, such as the need to wear masks, or to close nurseries and schools.
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“We trust virologists to give us smart advice,” Laschet said. And he added that if it is constantly changing, it is also “difficult for politics.”
It was a lament prominently, and of course Laschet got fat.
“Overwhelmed,” he said quickly. And: it won’t be like that with the chancellery! Because, thus, the naive instruct the naive among us, who always know exactly how the rabbit is: Laschet’s appearance only follows his drive to distinguish himself, calculation, to differentiate himself from the competitor Söder, his great competitor. Like him, Merkel’s poodle for years, has now strayed from her chancellor’s guidelines.
The cynical look through the power glasses.
Söder is uncompromising, the spearhead of the running of the bulls, his pioneer in the country when it comes to masking. So Laschet is now trying to do the exact opposite; we want to be the one to do everything possible. It doesn’t matter that both Söder and Laschet, for example, play for the Bundesliga ghost games. For those who only look directly through the power glasses, it all finally adds up to a hierarchical movement.
This is not only cynical, it is also a bit boring and very much like a template.
Laschet can be described at least as well as the politician who also acts as prime minister and citizen, not to say: as a person, representing the conflicting voices in the debate. A debate that has nothing to do with orgies, but is simply necessary. Because now, we all know that, in addition to the scientific point of view, it is important to include the social consequences of our actions in the equation, as well as the economic consequences.
Laschet explains in his comments that the equation becomes more complicated, that it no longer seems so simple or that there is no alternative. Fortunately, life or death is not that simple.
Unwarranted belief in authority
If he pulls maliciously, but hey, Laschet must have everything under control, after all, he is Prime Minister. Please, which Prime Minister has everything under control? This belief speaks of a belief in authority that, for the moment at least, should not be justified by anything. Even in the Bavarian and Baden-Wuerttemberg schools, it was not thought, there are also injustices here when it comes to closing and opening stores. The kindergarten problem, family policy, has been woefully neglected across the country, under the primacy of the contact ban.
Now, to judge the one who tracks omissions, that is, the unbearable phrase of “driving into view” for himself and his actions, and therefore, in an almost strangely honest way, reveals the dilemma in which politics at this moment it does nothing, does not change the difficult and fluffy starting point.
I know I don’t know anything, nothing else says Laschet and, therefore, he is in the best human tradition since ancient times. That we all wish it were different, at least for now!
But as long as we only know that we know nothing, or at least we know very little, the following applies: it can, should, must be discussed. Open and loud.
And until sometime, maybe, the lights come on.
