Traitorous job advertisement:
Monitoring and state of emergency at least until the end of 2021
There are increasing indications that the political efforts underway in the background to make the pandemic provisions as permanent as possible and to stabilize "normality in a state of emergency" are a master plan - with the aim of preserving, above all, the comfortable majority of the Union as far as possible until the next federal elections. Corona itself is almost no longer at stake.
Actually, the government of Tönnies & Co. should be downright grateful to Romanian families or worshippers for their contribution to maintaining the infection. If Sars-CoV2 really died out in Germany, or if new infections, active cases and R-numbers at least continued to drop, then public acceptance of the still existing restrictions and conditions - from compulsory masks to distance rules - would rapidly decrease. But in this way a basic fear can (still) be stirred up and made useful.
At the state level, everything is being done, both normatively and institutionally, to make "living with the virus" the new normal state. Minister of Health
Jens Spahn, together with the leaders of the parliamentary groups in the Bundestag, has just started to think aloud about how the temporary decrees in force as a result of the pandemic emergency can be converted into permanent law if possible. The Infection Protection Act is to become a kind of substitute for the Basic Law - if possible during this pandemic, not in the next one, which is already in prospect.
Maintaining power and building the surveillance state
Anyone who thinks this is exaggerated or even paranoid should pay close attention to the evidence that public administrations at state and, above all, local level are also taking blatant precautions to keep the pandemic going at least until after the federal elections next autumn. These include, for example, arming and increasing personnel to monitor the population, to track infected persons and, subsequently, to comply with possible quarantine orders.
The eye-catcher here was a revealing advertisement from the Bavarian district of Coburg, which is looking for "employees (m/w/d)" to identify and track down infected persons as of August 1. The length of employment is revealing:
the position is to be filled (for the time being)
until 31 December 2021 - i.e. for a year and a half.
(m/w/d) = (male/female/diverse)
This makes it unmistakably clear what politicians in Germany have so far withheld from their citizens: Permanent surveillance, proof of identity, self-declaration for tracing chains of infection are to accompany us for at least another 18 months; and a rogue who thinks badly that by then the next subsequent threat will certainly have been found. If the second, third, fourth wave fails to appear, the next pandemic will simply be conjured out of the hat.
