Commentaries · November 25, 2021

Applause does not buy any bread

The corona cases in Germany go up to new highs every day. That was foreseeable one or two months ago – by now we should have all learned what exponential growth means and how harmless it looks at the beginning. What we see right now has been predicted by experts. But the German government responded perplexingly to the predictions and numbers: Measures were stopped, although still many people are not vaccinated and the third vaccinations are pending vaccination centers were closed. Now intensive care units are flooded with corona patients – most of them not vaccinated. Intensive care is at or already beyond its breaking point. Among the population and also on the part of politicians, there is a lack of respect for the work of nurses and doctors in hospitals, otherwise politics would not have let it go this far.

The new government promises to take measures for nursing, but it is unclear whether this promise will be kept and when it will be kept. But what should be clear to us from last year: Applause does not buy you any bread.