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SIn recent days, Markus Söder had not only prepared Bavaria for the bitter sliced message. Ironically, on Saint Nicholas Day, he announced the unhappy gift-giving in the style of a concerned but not punishing servant, Ruprecht. He had criticized the hesitancy of some prime ministers that Germany could not enter a “half-dream” that was also depleting the economy with a partial lockdown for the spring without really resounding success in containing the pandemic.
After each conference of the countries with the Chancellor, Söder clearly showed his dissatisfaction with the measures of the crown, which, in his opinion, were too half-hearted. Every soft decision announced in Berlin was immediately followed by a tougher one in Munich. Söder now had to act because despite the tight reins, the successes in Bavaria, but especially in Corona hot spots like Passau, Nuremberg or Berchtesgaden, have so far been quite modest.
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What Söder has now prescribed to the Free State as a ten-point plan is a blockade that deserves its name, in addition to (for the time being) more open shops and school classes that continue to teach in the classroom. With area-wide exit restrictions and curfews from 9 p.m. to morning in places with a very high infection rate, Söder is pulling the hammer against the virus. Plus there’s an even quieter New Year’s Eve in lively Bavaria than was previously allowed. There are measures with which Söder follows the advice of several virologists, but also some economic experts who called for a short but tough shutdown weeks ago. The harsh course of the Bavarian crown could soon be followed by others as the number of infections does not decrease.
What Christian Söder is rightly concerned about in this dark run-up to Christmas is the “indifference” and “ethical delivery” with which many in Germany accept the nearly 20,000 deaths from Covid-19. Not just the crown deniers.
