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The second wave of anger is underway, and soon the second wave of infections?
In many places they protested against the crown rules over the weekend, furious new citizens. In Munich a good 3,000, in Berlin more than 1,000, protests also in Frankfurt or Cologne. In Stuttgart, where people once had free time to fight a train station, around 5000 people even gathered.
Nothing against Manifestations! But there are also many spinners at the beginning.
Take Berlin, for example: conspiracy theorists from all shadows met at Alexanderplatz and in front of the Reichstag, vaccination opponents, right and left extremists, admirers of Putin, or C celebrities like show cook Attila Hildmann ( “I am going for the fight for our freedom, only with a weapon, hand and head raised”).
You are the Spreader of Wrath in the pandemic
As normal citizens also participate, extremes become connectable, hatred and anger seep into the middle. And how many people may have been infected in these protests over the weekend and are now transmitting the virus?
The refugee crisis of five years ago triggered the first wave of anger and strengthened the AfD. The crown crisis now triggers the second wave, again capturing new bourgeois classes.
Thomas Kemmerich participated in a demonstration in Gera, which also attracted confused people. The images show him without mouth protection and without the necessary distance from others. He felt sorry for that later. Kemmerich, do you remember? The Short-term Prime Minister of the FDP Thuringia, who brought the AfD to power.
And then there is a speaker from Horst Seehofer’s internal department. In recent days, it has distributed an 80-page specially written document on ministerial letterhead, in which the virus is downplayed as a “false global alarm.”
If the prime ministers last Wednesday wanted to avoid this new anger with their great relief, then that failed. If things really go wrong, we end up with both: Wave of anger and wave of infection.
Because the Virus infection rate Maybe it went up. The so-called reproductive rate estimated by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) increased above the critical value of 1. over the weekend. Therefore, each infected person is statistically more than another infected person. Important: These are uncertain figures, it is necessary to wait the next few days, says the RKI.
Still, it is troubling. The photos from this weekend show people very close together. In demonstrations, while shopping, at leisure. We pretend that nothing has been. Significant loosenings are symbolically evaluated and freely interpreted.
In the end, the vast majority of sensitive people pay the bill. So those who followed the rules. They are millions of families, women pushed into old roles, hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and workers threatened in their livelihood. They depend on greater relaxation and will be the first victims of a new blockade. It is still true what the chancellor said in her television speech in mid-March: “Without exception, everything comes down to everyone and, therefore, to all of us.”
Speaking of where Angela Merkel is?
Last week brought a change of direction in Corona crisis management, and that was not good. Prime ministers had stormed and pushed, the chancellor admitted little, accepted uncoordinated relaxation on Wednesday. It was, as my colleague Dirk Kurbjuweit writes, “the end of chancellor democracy.” Since then, 16 country leaders have determined the crown’s policy.
Almost two months, starting with that television address, Merkel stamped the fight against the virus. How long will you let prime ministers do? How high can the reproduction rate R increase? This Monday, the Crown Cabinet Committee meets at the Chancellery. Merkel will also likely discuss the possible consequences of the change in direction with her ministers.
Can it still be one for you? Back to the leadership role give? For the moment, at least, it lacks the necessary means of power. Although the Chancellor’s Basic Law attributes a strong position, Merkel’s position in the party and coalition is equally important. There is already a shortage, the Union has turned to its time, potential candidates for chancellor under Prime Ministers (Markus Söder, Armin Laschet) are in the foreground. And then there is public opinion. At the beginning of the crisis, this was support for Merkel, but now? According to an Infratest survey, only a quarter of Germans still have big concerns about Corona. If it all comes down to everyone, it is not a good value.
Loser of the day …
… are North American bees They have recently been attacked by Asian giant hornets (Vespa mandarinia): they decapitate honey bees and destroy entire bee colonies. In Asia, on the other hand, bees have already developed a method to stop the killing: they trap a giant hornet in their hive, hundreds of them form a cocoon around the killer animal and scream at it. The intruder dies from overheating or carbon dioxide poisoning. Conclusion, also here: only you are powerless, but together they are strong.
