But, are the measures not being lowered over there and gradually returning to normal? A couple of concessions have already been made around here, and I have heard that in some countries too, although I don't think it is the "normal" yet, the measures are being withdrawn. If you ask me, we will still have to wait a couple of months so that everything returns to normal (at least around here).
Maybe I'm wrong and this is the "new normal", and we will have to get used to wearing a mask and being socially distanced in a kind of new dictatorship, although whenever that thought arises in my mind I think I'm exaggerating a little, or at least I I would like to think that it is so.
Anyway, politicians are liars and the way in which they have approached the crisis only proves it, and I really don't care about whether they feel that way, other than whether it's okay to see them like this to come to understand them.
There is no relaxation of the measures at all. The regulations are sprouting like seeds from the ground. The authorities are quick to draw up ever more protection concepts and everything is now being adapted very quickly to the standard of social isolation. My son has not been going to school since the beginning of March, and the alleged lowering of the lockdown meant that he was at school for exactly two days, now it is holidays, then he will be at school for a few more days, then it will be summer holidays. Everything was cancelled, class trip, the scout trip that he takes every year, sports clubs are closed, my son can't go and play volleyball anymore and so on and so on. So he sits in front of the computer all day long, the families have no contact with each other and those who strictly follow the rules prevent visits and meetings among each other. The people who are related to each other and have children are picked up by the police in the park and receive fines for not following the rules of distance. The adjacent park, where construction has been underway since the beginning of the year, will open soon, but the lawns where picnics, barbecues and games were previously held and played will be closed for entry. So that people are not tempted to sit in groups on the lawns: social distance prevails everywhere.
In the old people's homes there is mostly a visiting ban, relatives can no longer visit their elderly and even terminal care is made impossible. The staff is in short-time work or has called in sick or quit, the old people who die are turned in bed every 2-3 hours and are given strong sedatives. They die alone.
I have not been able to work for months, doing telephone service where it is impossible to really help anyone. The "protection concepts" that are now being developed for my working environment are so absurd that I am stunned. In one of the facilities we are now allowed to receive visitors again and my supervisor has actually taken a folding rule to take the distance between me at my desk and the visitor's chair. I am supposed to disinfect the chair afterwards, and to lead the people who come for counselling into the washroom beforehand so that they can wash their hands there under my supervision.
I don't know how much longer I can do this work without getting sick or crazy. The irrational fear of a virus, the fading out of human mortality, all of this was already in evidence many years before in our modern society and is now experiencing the Grand Finale as a prelude to a new society. The bureaucrats are in charge everywhere. Nobody is really creative in their existing leeway, which would be given if one were to remember their humanity.
I have always suspected that the Nazis were supported by the supposedly normal people at that time. It's not looking, not participating, prescribing at the desk and not caring about the practical world of life. We have the term "desk perpetrator". When the bureaucrats who finally pave the way for the executive branch in their offices and on their computers make themselves unapproachable, then we have exactly what we say we "never wanted to let it happen again".
You can't overdo it enough, because we take the dictatorship in big steps, like an oblate we let the decrees put in our mouth and whenever somebody says something against it, strangely enough the word in your mouth is turned around and you are regarded as "heartless" and "selfish". This is probably the one hundred percent pathology that people who love their work, who are emotionally not closed to the facts that happen in old people's homes and hospitals and doctors' surgeries, are themselves branded as "right-wing" and "Nazis" and more recently as "conspirators". This distortion is all the more difficult to grasp in view of the stubborn insistence that one wants to "protect the old and the sick" and how one can be so hypocritical as to demand that the measures be stopped immediately.
It is this compulsive lie that is currently growing like a weed and which, because of its twist, is generating all the more fear. And really: these people do not think that they are lying to themselves. I can only explain it in the way I explained in my previous answer.
The whole nation seems to be convinced of taking pills and vaccination. I had an old man with me in counselling more often, he swallows 13 pills a day and yet his pain never stops. Medication is the order of the day and once you are in the machine you can swallow pills for the rest of your life because there are always new medical causes that make you dependent on them. This has been the norm for decades and therefore we probably do not see the cruelty in it.
One cannot be hateful all the time. It eats you up. There is not other way than to understand the politicians for they are victims of their own illusions.
I understand, things are not getting good over there.
The worst part is that most people seem to be accepting everything without raising any objection, actually this makes me think that it is easier to subject people to dictatorships than it seems, everyone will continue with their lives anyway, even if you take away all their liberties. And if you oppose it will seem that you are the one with a problem.
I would lie to you if I told you that we have not been preparing for this in the last decades, making governments great, making people more selfish, insensitive, and asocial. Maybe we are taking a look at the future, I hope not.
Good luck to you in Germany, it seems you need it.