The pandemic has been rampant for ten months, and German politicians have been debating measures against it for ten months. Efficient prevention fell by the wayside. The result is the second hard lockdown.
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The Governing Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller, Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz on Sunday in Berlin.
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Almost two weeks ago, the Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer coined a sentence in the ZDF’s “Morgenmagazin” that is of central importance for the assessment of the current pandemic management in Germany: “We underestimated this virus – everyone.” At that time, his Free State and the Federal Republic were still a long way from the hard lockdown that was decided on this Sunday. Until the current correction of the so openly admitted misjudgment, tens of thousands more people have become infected. Thousands died with the coronavirus.
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