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Tomorrow, children, there will be something … on Wednesday the heads of state of the countries will decide with the Chancellor how the rules of the crown will be for the end of the year!
New at this summit: it is not Angela Merkel (66, CDU), but the prime ministers who must present the proposals for the decision. That is why prime ministers discussed their line for 4.5 hours on Monday night and agreed that the partial shutdown should extend until December 20.
For this reason, contact restrictions should be relaxed for Christmas and New Year’s Eve: in the period from December 23 to January 1, meetings of a household with non-household members of the household or people outside the household may be possible for a maximum of ten people. Children up to 14 years old are exempt from this.
Self quarantine before the holidays
For this purpose, German citizens should go into home self-quarantine for several days if possible before the Christmas holidays. “This may be supported by the Christmas school holidays that may be preferred from December 19, 2020,” says a draft resolution from the federal states. With self-quarantine, the risk of corona infections in the area around the celebrations should be kept as low as possible.
“We call on the public to examine this measure individually for themselves and implement it in the interest and for the protection of the people they would like to meet at Christmas,” says the newspaper that BILD has at its disposal.
Tighter contact restrictions as of December 1
Also, strict contact restrictions from December 1 should allow for special regulation for holidays. The agreement of the country’s leaders literally says: “Private meetings with friends, relatives and acquaintances should be limited to your own home and another home, but in any case to a maximum of five people.”
Consultations between the heads of the state chancelleries and the head of the chancellery, Helge Braun (CDU), will resume today.
These are the other key points
► Mask requirement: The obligation to cover the mouth and nose, which applies to local public transport or retail trade, will be expanded. In the future, it should also be applied in front of retail stores and in parking lots. The same applies to all places open to the public in inner cities, even outdoors, where people are in confined spaces or not only temporarily.
► Commerce: The population is called to make Christmas shopping during the week if possible.
► Home Office: Employers are being asked to verify whether businesses can close, either for company vacations or generous home office solutions from December 21 to January 3, 2021 in order to implement the ‘stay in’ principle. home ”across the country.
► Clinics: The federal government wants to provide 15 FFP2 masks per person for particularly vulnerable groups, such as patients in hospitals and residents of nursing homes, seniors and facilities for the disabled, for a small personal contribution.
► Universities: Colleges and universities should basically switch to digital teaching, with the exception of laboratory activities, internships, practical training phases and exams.
► Religion: Federal and state governments want to talk to religious communities to reduce contacts. Religious gatherings with the character of large events should be avoided.
► Schools: The federal states are united in the goal of keeping schools and kindergartens open for educational and socio-political reasons. In regions with significantly more than 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days, according to the will of the federal states, in the future, in principle, a mask requirement should also be applied in the classroom from the seventh grade.
Against the requirement of masks in elementary schools
The ruling mayor of Berlin, Michael Müller (SPD), said in the “Morgenmagazin” that most federal states were against mandatory masks in primary schools. That could still provide discussion: Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) ruled during deliberations a week ago with a proposal for more extensive contact restrictions and stricter rules in schools due to the veto from the federal states. Class divisions were also discussed.
SPD countries against the New Year’s explosion
There were other Zoff points:
► Ironically, when the ban on firecrackers on New Year’s Eve, the countries led by unions and ruled by the SPD were controversial.
The comrades did not want ANY blow in times of epidemic. The SPD position paper said: “At the turn of the year 2020/2021, the sale, purchase and lighting of fireworks are prohibited, in particular to relieve emergency and auxiliary personnel, to keep the capacities of the health system free and avoid larger groups. “
In its document, the Union expressly opposed this: “The sale and transport of pyrotechnics is not prohibited, only recommendation and appeal. But the ban on fireworks in crowded places. “
In the end, the countries of the Union prevailed with their partial ban on firecrackers. “The responsible local authorities determine the places and streets affected,” says the position paper.
The member of the CDU of the Bundestag Marian Wendt (35) wrote a letter to the Chancellor to defend the pyromagic on New Year’s Eve: “This year we want to drive away the evil spirits of the old year even more than in previous years. We can only restrict this tradition proportionally. “
And the German citizens? They are divided!
A quick INSA poll for BILD shows: Among those who are basically in favor of firecrackers, 47% are in favor of a ban this year. 37% are against (see box for more Blitz poll results).
► Zoff also on SPD’s idea of closing factories in Germany from December 21 to January 3 on a large scale.
Carsten Linnemann (43, CDU), union leader of the medium-sized company, told BILD: “As a voluntary recommendation and solution, I think it is correct. Not as a mandatory requirement. “And the president of the CDU Economic Council, Astrid Hamker (54):” The SPD should let the businessmen decide whether or not to close their businesses during Christmas.
“A crown solos is nothing more than a tax increase”
►Third point of concern: discussions on the SPD initiative to introduce a crown solidarity surcharge to fund the measures.
With Corona-Soli, the SPD wants to ensure that “additional costs do not have to be unilaterally absorbed by the legally insured”, that is, by increasing the contribution to compulsory medical insurance.
Christian Dürr (43), FDP financial expert, told BILD: “A Corona solos is nothing more than a tax increase. We need help, especially in the crisis! “
