We can haz brains? Please?

Just in case you're shaking your head at the pandemics politics in your own country (provided it's not Germany), rest assured that things here are managed just as stupidly as you could imagine.

We'll have a "lockdown" during Easter, where all shops are closed except those selling food, and those are closed as well, only wait, we can't have people be without food-shopping possibilities for five days consecutively so they will open on Saturday. Because those five days will help so much, yeah. They would have helped plenty back in November, when the second wave was getting ready to pick up speed. They would have helped at the start of March, when it was apparent that our numbers were not sinking anymore, but stagnating. But no, there had to be openings back then. Now it's too late for those five days to make an impact, as experience tells us.

There are restrictions regarding whom you can meet (one other household, maximum of five persons) and you are not allowed to stay somewhere else in your own caravan, but it's perfectly allowed to fly to Mallorca and have a vacation there, and there's no testing required by law before or afterwards, only the airlines are supposed to be testing their customers, but at least one has already declared that they won't.

And after Easter, there may be discussions about opening things up again, and there will be more safety because there will be vaccinations and more quick-tests. Um, wasn't that EXACTLY what you declared would make the last loosening of restrictions totally safe and sound? There's still no consistent strategy for this, and there's obviously really steeply rising numbers, so tell me again how this is going to work any better in two weeks, with higher incidence numbers than two or three weeks ago?

All of this, mind you, is also only theoretical, because as the actual handling of things is down to the individual federal states, they will all do their own thing again. We will have 16 different sets of rules, at least, and then again differences in how the counties handle things. Because, as all our politicians will readily tell you, we really need a straight, simple set of rules and guidelines that everyone in all of Germany adheres to. Except where their own region warrants an exception, obviously.

I'm really, really fed up with our politicians right now. They have learned exactly nothing, nothing at all. At the start of all of this pandemic, nobody knew anything - so yes, making mistakes is somehow understandable. But then nothing to prepare for the second wave was done during the summer, and that, consequently, was managed very badly. But to have learned exactly and utterly nothing again yet from the second wave for the third? That is inexcusable. Not that there weren't warnings from the doctors and hospitals and epidemologists.

Stupid, stupid politicians. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it... and even if there's an excuse for not knowing and consequently not learning from real history, as in several hundreds of years ago... it should be possible to remember what happened a few months before. But then, we're talking about politicians here, who probably can forget everything and anything in the blink of an eye if it suits them.