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The chancellor and the country’s leaders put Germans in the mood for a difficult year-end result. The air is getting thinner and thinner for more and more entrepreneurs, not only the industry complains. A summary of the first reactions to the resolutions.
Another crown summit, again stricter measures: the federal and state governments agreed, among other things, to extend the partial shutdown until December 20. The reactions of industry and commerce are critical. While some of the state politicians defend the decisions, critics complain of the inconsistency. An overview.
City Council Chairman Burkhard Jung showed understanding for the measurements. “It hurts that the partial blockade has to continue. Now reducing contacts even further demands a lot from us,” he told the “Funke Mediengruppe” newspapers. “But the Corona situation currently does not allow for anything else. The more we follow the rules now, the better we will get out of winter.” He hopes it will ease when vaccines are available.
SPD health politician Karl Lauterbach told the “Funke” newspapers that relaxation for Christmas and New Years was risky. He hopes this does not result in a “boost for the pandemic.” “But the fear is that the population will not accept stricter rules for this time either.” He admitted: “In fact, we have no way to effectively control the maintenance of regulations. So we have to appeal to the population – and see if it works or not.”
The president of the Marburger Bund Doctors UnionSusanne Johna supported the call to stop the New Year’s fireworks. Clinics are already heavily stressed by the pandemic. “Doctors in emergency rooms will be grateful to all who do not fire rockets and more to do so without Chinese thugs. Serious hand and eye injuries need to be treated every time New Year’s Eve, and trauma of pop are frequent consequences, “he told The Spark. “Newspapers. Also, there is pollution of the environment and health from fine dust.” We should skip all that this time, please. “In the publishing network newspapers in Germany, Johna demanded that the federal and state governments finally ensure that sufficient rapid tests are available for hospital staff.
The president of the Union of Education and Science (GEW)Marlis Tepe called the resolutions for the school sector “disappointing and risky.” She told the publishing network in Germany that she would have liked more decisions about alternate lessons, that is, the division of classes into groups of students who are then taught alternately at home and at school.
The director of the teachers’ association, Heinz-Peter Meidinger criticized Corona’s resolutions for not being far-fetched enough. He asked for a stricter mask requirement. In principle, it is to be appreciated that “at least a minimal consensus has been reached on the toughening of hygiene protection measures,” Meidinger of the “Rheinische Post” said.
However, the association would have advocated for the mandatory face mask in the classroom from the fifth grade and, if the incidence is high, also for elementary students, Meidinger said. “We also welcome the fact that you can now organize alternate lessons in hotspot areas starting in year 8 and thus reintroduce the distance rule.” The problem, however, is that implementation is only an optional rule and the incidence value of 200 is four times higher than the Robert Koch Institute recommendation.
Also the trade association HDE criticized the resolutions of the federal and state governments. There is no objective reason to issue different regulations for sales areas above and below 800 square meters, HDE managing director Stefan Genth said Wednesday night in Berlin. Hygiene concepts in retail have proven their worth in small and large stores, supermarkets, department stores and shopping centers. “The new regulation could also be counterproductive if queues form in front of stores and in city centers.”
The industry meanwhile, he urged planning for security. The federal and state governments tried to get a reliable outlook for the end of the year. “This at least offers a short-term orientation, but it still does not provide a sufficient planning horizon for the economy,” said BDI industry association president Dieter Kempf on Wednesday night in Berlin. It is still important to keep economic activity as far away as possible and to keep schools, kindergartens and nurseries open. “It should be of vital importance to reduce the risk of yo-yo closures to the economy and society,” Kempf said.
From the BDI’s point of view, the resolutions of the federal and state governments will further affect economic activity and consumer confidence for the rest of the year. “This will initially affect the temporary economic recovery in the next year,” Kempf said. “The air is getting thinner for more and more entrepreneurs in winter.”
More intensive use of bridging aid and immediate reinforcement of tax loss compensation is necessary to provide liquidity to companies as soon as possible in difficult times. Replacing lost sales with state aid is a drain on public budgets. “This should not lead to an exemption of future investments or higher taxes,” warned the head of the BDI.
Politicians seek understanding
Armin Laschet, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia defended the resolutions. “Today’s adjustment has not been easy for anyone,” Laschet said Wednesday night in Düsseldorf. “It will be a Christmas that we have not experienced in recent years.”
Laschet stressed that, based on previous decisions for a temporary partial shutdown, November should be a “calm month.” Although the exponential growth in the number of infections has been broken, the figures are still at “too high a level.” “The situation is still serious, the initial steps are now unthinkable and we still cannot give the go ahead.”
Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) He appealed to the population to refrain from skiing this year. This type of tourism “counteracts all the efforts of the population” to fight the virus, Söder said on Wednesday night on the ZDF program “Markus Lanz – The year 2020.” Until now, it has not been possible to agree a ban on ski areas at European level. But a reduction in bids is possible, Söder said.
If the number of deaths related to the pandemic continues to rise, it would be “6,000 dead by Christmas,” Söder calculated. Therefore, he sticks to his line of “prudence and caution”. With a view to developing the corona pandemic, the CSU chief said: “I wish I was wrong.”
“The Corona winter is a tough test for us,” explained the The Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer. “We have to extend the partial blockade.” The reversal of the trend in new infections has not yet been achieved.
Berlin Mayor Michael Müller appealed in view of the planned relaxation for Christmas and New Year’s Eve in common sense and personal responsibility. Politicians want “of course, given this particular time of year, to make possible some things that might not be necessary if you look at the numbers very coldly,” the SPD politician said on Wednesday. “But making things possible does not mean that you have to use everything that is possible.”
It makes an urgent appeal to people to be aware of what each individual can do to protect themselves and others, Müller said. “And family celebrations, (…) even if they are possible, you may not have to organize them so big and in the same way that you have done in recent years.” The end of the pandemic has not yet come. “We are in a situation where it really is a matter of life and death in many areas.”
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On Thursday, the chancellor wants to make a government statement in the Bundestag, government spokesman Steffen Seibert announced.
