OPINION
A few days before the fall of most of the measures against the corona virus, we have the highest number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic. And those who cried loudest for easing are now their harshest critics.
With all the terrible images that reach us every day from the Ukraine war, one thing has almost gone unnoticed in the past two weeks: we are still in another global crisis – the corona pandemic. And even if it has been pretty well reported in the media in the past few days – the virus is rampant like never before. With an incidence of 1585.4, we set a negative record this Tuesday. In the past week, the daily new infections amounted to up to 262,000. And that just a few days before “Freedom Day light”, to stay in the analogy of the lockdowns.
The criticism of the corona loosening is getting louder
On March 20th, all more in-depth protective measures should fall. And yet something is strange these days: the mood is apparently changing, criticism of the easing is getting louder. While for many people the openings a few weeks ago couldn’t come fast enough and the hobby virologists already declared the pandemic over because “it’s getting warmer and with the sun and stuff, that was the same last year.. .”, the same people no longer know what to do with their outrage.
260,000 new infections in one day! loosening! Irresponsible! Who thinks of the children? That’s contamination! Yes that’s it. And just a few weeks ago, many thought that was exactly the right plan. One often heard that one had to learn to live with the virus. What should you do? After all, you can’t vaccinate more than three times.
So what has changed in just a few weeks? Why are some people suddenly clinging to the FFP2 mask like a child to its mother’s leg when hearing that school attendance is compulsory again? Karl Lauterbach put it very well: “The situation is currently objectively worse than the mood” – for the common German actually wrong world. Nevertheless, one has the feeling that the impacts are coming a little closer.
Hardly a day goes by without the Corona warning app announcing with concern that a risky encounter had taken place. Again and again the sentence “den” or “die” got it too. Long Covid – yes, we now know a few who can no longer easily climb the stairs or who can hardly concentrate.
For a long time it was wonderfully easy to cry out for freedom
For a long time it was so wonderfully simple to cry out for freedom. Trade my limitations for someone else’s suffering – a bomb deal. The intensive care units, where 200 to 300 people still die every day from or with Corona, were far away.
But suddenly your own environment is also massively affected. Suddenly it’s about us personally. And then suddenly we start to panic a little.
Like a schoolchild who exuberantly explains for weeks that the maths work will not be a problem, only to panic and talk to the teacher on the day of the exam with sweaty hands that it is unfair to suddenly write a test because you have not learned anything have.
Basically, you can’t have anything against a change of opinion. At least that’s what we’ve certainly learned from the pandemic: we keep reassessing the situation and may even come to new decisions.
The sudden indignation consists of selfishness
But the sudden outrage among so many is not a sign of solidarity with vulnerable groups. It’s not an attempt to relieve hospitals or finally get a handle on this pandemic. The sudden outrage is an expression of self-interest, which we see in danger. It consists of egotism, because many notice that these abstract numbers, which have been hanging over us like a black cloud for two years, do affect them after all. Nurses and geriatric nurses, doctors and medical professionals can sing a song about it – only many didn’t want to hear it anymore.
The incidences have been absurdly high for weeks. Hardly anyone was interested in that for a long time. The only important thing was that the loosening came. Now that everyone suddenly has an acquaintance, relative or work colleague who is currently in quarantine or has just been tested, it is dawning that Corona is still here and the risk of infection is higher than ever.
Only now, when many people are realizing that this pandemic is not over yet and that they can infect themselves at any time, do many suddenly know better. It is a slap in the face for those who have been warning about the consequences of the virus and the impact on the health system for two years.
Source: Stern
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