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1. Appearance
“What would you say, looking back at an event of the century, if we didn’t even find a solution for these three days?” He asks. Chancellor in an unusually disturbing speech in the Bundestag today (here on the video). Three days, with regard to the Christmas holidays, you want to start earlier. And if not, you’re calling for stricter crown restrictions – a shutdown, as proposed by the Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences.
My colleague Stefan Kuzmany comments:
“It seems that Angela Merkel is getting more emotional with each of her appearances. This can be taken as proof of how serious it is to convince the Germans to further reduce their contacts to at least slow the spread of the coronavirus a bit. It may serve as evidence of his desperation that his known sobriety has as little effect as the Lockdown light measures, which has been in place since November. It may be that Angela Merkel, once disrespectfully mocked as ›Mutti‹, actually becomes the mother of the nation in the pandemic that wants to save her people from disaster. Certainly, everything is well intentioned. And yet it is possible that Merkel and others who do the same can do great harm with this kind of communication.
If the Chancellor advises in a radio interview, given the cold in permanently ventilated classrooms, that schoolchildren should ›do a little squatting or something‹ or clap, then that will not seem like a care to many parents, but rather a lack of familiarity somewhat childish.
When the chancellor says in her speech today that she knows “ how much love is behind when the mulled wine stands are set up, when the waffle stands are set up, ” she can only do so by ignoring the fact that it is less about hobbies and more than It is a more shameful street sale by restaurateurs who see no other source of income in the crisis than selling hot alcoholic beverages to passersby. And when he rejects this street bar on the grounds that ‘we pay the price for having a death toll of 590 a day’, then he apparently considers his audience somewhat limited. Because everyone who walks through our cities with open eyes must ask themselves: schools are open, people sit very close on subways and commuter trains, retail works, but it is responsible for the current death toll. Should they be in? the street drinkers of mulled wine?
You can argue like the chancellor: motherly, dramatic, like a child, hoping that emotional appeal will lead people to restraint, to stay at home. But then you don’t have to be surprised if it triggers completely undesirable emotions: rejection, reluctance, and defiance. “
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2. Boom
Pandemic, lockdown, tribulation everywhere, and yet: Much of the economy is not so bad at the end of the 2020 disaster, as initially feared, as my colleagues Benjamin Bidder and Claus Hecking report. On the contrary: here and there there have been recent developments that point to a change in global trend, a change for the better. The order situation in German industry is developing “surprisingly strong, incoming orders in October, the latest month for which data is available, were already at February level,” the two write. China is already behind the crisis.
3. Ripe for demolition
Come into tonight Champions League Clubs Paris Saint-Germain and Istanbul Başakşehir face off, continue their game yesterday, which was interrupted by a scandal: Romania’s assistant referee had clashed with Pierre Webó, the Turkish team supervisor. The accusation: he nicknamed Webó with the infamous N word. The official claims that he only called him “el negro” (Romanian: “negru”) to identify him to his fellow referees.
“You would never say ‘that white man’but ‘that man’. So why do you say ‘that nigga’ when you mean a nigger? ”Asked deputy Paris Demba Ba. After 23 minutes, both teams left the field together. (More on this here).
“Now people say: yes, if that is racism, then almost everything is racism”My colleague Peter Ahrens from our sports department comments on the process. “Well, not everything, but it is always and everywhere, and in football neither more nor less than anywhere else.” However, UEFA in particular would have been heavily involved in fighting racism for years. “Of course, it seems a bit stupid for the association that its own referee causes the abandonment of a match. The PSG and Basakşehir players had to show UEFA on Tuesday night how to react impressively to something like this. “
Another kickoff: today at 7pm
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Turn start: American actress Meryl streepThe 71-year-old, after a quarantine crown in which she felt “totally alone”, found it difficult to concentrate on filming the science fiction comedy “Don’t Look Up”, as shown on the “Late Show” by Stephen Colbert, 56, he said. “My first scene was walking into a stadium full of 20,000 people as president, my face on the big screen in front of me, and I was totally crazy.”
Typo of the day, now corrected: “A passenger on the› Quantum of the Seas ‹cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean International tested positive for coronavirus.”
Caricature of the Tages: Trostbonbon
And this night?
You could dive into that World history. As a tried and tested method, the SPIEGEL history department relied on our swarm intelligence and began a survey among all the colleagues in the house: “What book have you read this year that has to do with history and what can you recommend? as a Christmas present? “
There were so many responses that it became one of several parts. In Part I, for example, my colleague Simone Salden recommends a book on Simone de Beauvoir, Diana Doert explains why Harari’s bestseller “A Brief History of Humanity” is even better as a graphic novel, and history editor Frank Patalong advocates a book that The German Unity Unmasked as a Myth, recalls that of 1871 (here you will find the recommendations).
A lovely evening! Sincerely
Yours Oliver Trenkamp
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