Reuters – April 14, 2021
German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced opposition on Wednesday to a plan to seek new powers to force coronavirus lockdowns on areas with high infection rates, with the imposition of curfews drawing particular fire given the country’s authoritarian past.
As infections rise rapidly and hospital beds fill up, Merkel’s government is pushing parliament to change the Infection Protection Act to enable federal authorities to enforce restrictions even if regional leaders resist them.
Reiner Haseloff, premier of the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, said it was more important to motivate people to cooperate in order to get infections under control rather than banning them from leaving home at night.
“If no one cooperates anymore, then we have a problem. Then it doesn’t matter how many laws we make,” Haseloff, a member of Merkel’s Christian Democrats, told MDR television.
Haseloff’s Saxony-Anhalt region currently has the third highest infection rate in Germany, behind Thuringia and Saxony, all in the former Communist east.
‘VERY SENSITIVE’
Georg Maier, interior minister in Thuringia, also expressed concern about imposing night-time curfews, saying it would be hard for the police to enforce them in the whole region.
“Especially here in eastern Germany, this is very sensitive,” Maier told the newspapers of the RND network, adding that curfews only work if they are accepted by the population.
Unlike Britain and France, Germany has been reluctant to impose drastic limits on movement in a country fiercely protective of democratic freedoms due to its Nazi and Communist past.
Opponents of the lockdown have held demonstrations across Germany, but particularly in the former east, which is more supportive of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party which has criticised restrictions.
According to the law due to be voted on by parliament next week, curfews and limits on private gatherings will be imposed on regions where there are more than 100 new infections per 100,000 residents, a figure already exceeded in most of Germany.
Schools will have to return to distance learning if the virus incidence rises above 200 per 100,000, a limit already exceeded in Saxony and Thuringia.
The number of coronavirus cases rose by 21,693 on Wednesday to 3,044,016, while the death toll rose by 342 to 79,088. The national seven-day virus incidence per 100,000 rose to 153 from 141 on Tuesday.
The wrestler Ventura who did a conspiracies TV series in 2009 met up with a scared whistle-blower on an air-strip and learned of a female Head of State who had told her that the “culling” was “about to begin soon” and I thought it must have been Merkel.
Merkel is a former Stasi operative and a lifelong communist, so her recent demand for dictatorial powers should come as no surprise.
The article fail to distinguish cases and symptoms.
It uses the word infections, which one has to assume is cases, right?
Or are the hospitals now full of ”infected” people with symptoms?
The headline I’d really like to see would only require changing a couple words and is: “Merkel set on fire over German Covid-19 lockdown law”. Now THAT would be some good news!
Here in the Jewnited States, the pathologically lying, Jew-controlled corporate media is relentlessly and shamelessly shoveling out the steaming, festering bullsh*t that there is a huge “surge” in covid cases and poor saps are dropping dead in the streets in horrifying misery. It’s a shameless, blatant, evil lie, of course. I deal with quite a lot of people on a daily basis, sometimes including doctors, nurses, medical examiners, coroners, healthcare facilities, and so on, and I know FOR A FACT there has been nobody dropping dead of the phantom virus and NO “surge” in people exhibiting symptoms of flu, cold, and certainly not “covid”, unless we are talking about Covid-1984, a dramatic pandemic of Orwellian totalitarianism menacing humanity over the past 14 months.
The corporate media and mainstream press has been betraying the public to an absolutely satanic degree and there HAS to be a reckoning for this…
The Protocol of the Learned Elders of Zion
The Protocol of the Learned Elders of Zion
The Protocol of the Learned Elders of Zion
Every dog has its day.
You all know what is going on. However the African started civilization and we will finish it.
Mystic and Yogi
I’ve seen some butt-ugly broads in my time… but – Holy Shit! – that doucebag Merkel takes the biscuit!
Merkel is an East German Commie. What do you expect? lol….
Be careful. Angela looks like one of the hardest men around.