Innsbruck (OTS) – If the government got a lot – not everything – right in the spring, then it has done a lot – not everything – wrong in the past few months. Only marketing hasn’t changed it. But this crisis is unsuitable for marketing.
At midnight, the country will shut down for the second time. It is true that one can get angry and indignant about it. As bitter as it may sound at the moment – in view of the extremely tense situation in the health system there is probably no other solution than to switch off public life again.
Nevertheless, one can and must ask oneself questions about this. A previously unknown virus and the frightening television images from Lombardy were responsible for the first lockdown. The threat was palpable. The government took the reins of action. She was successful – and in retrospect she was full of praise for her actions. In her recurring press conferences she told us how great she had brought the country through the crisis.
But if the government did a lot (not everything) right back then in the spring, it did a lot (not everything) wrong in the months up to the second lockdown. The tide has turned radically. Also whether the wrongdoing of us citizens. The lead from spring was lost. We cannot expect the virological quartet Sebastian Kurz, Werner Kogler, Rudolf Anschober and Karl Nehammer to present us with an error analysis of how they dealt with the pandemic, coupled with self-reflection. But it doesn’t even change his crisis marketing. While the Greens maintain their role as pragmatists of disorientation, the Chancellor knows how to present himself as a savior in all situations. There he is a master of his subject. Shortly before Easter, the Chancellor prophesied the resurrection. At the end of August, Kurz saw a light at the end of the tunnel. And now? With the hard lockdown, the head of government wants to save Christmas. Shall we applaud now too? No, that could have been done if control over the infections had not been lost in the federal and state governments, if the expert commission of the Corona traffic light had also had a weight if preparations had been made to prevent the schools from returning to lock.
What we have left is the principle of hope, with a view to the hospitals and the government’s willingness to learn. Crisis marketing alone may help the Chancellor, but it is not a strategy for avoiding a third lockdown.
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