https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2BS0RM?il=0Laschet does the inevitable U-turn today and now calls for a hard lockdown, or as he terms it "Bridge-Lockdown" (the Idea is like, well, a bridge until enough people are Vaccinated, trying to invoke a more positive sense of a safe shore on the other side so to speak - instead of the tunnel metaphors that German Politicians have used previously where the light at the end too often has turned out to be a train)
Zero political instinct, zero strategy, this man. Has has managed to take every single stance under the sun on this Issue and somehow always too late, been forced to u-turn every single time, and has now crossed the point where everyone, including those who agree with him on his newfound strategy are now beating him up no matter what he does.
Whilst I don't believe that a word Söder says is in remotely good faith - and he has, on a pure, empirical basis presided over some of the worst infections and deaths in Germany, much worse than NRW - in terms of Strategy he has relegated Laschet to a flag in his whirlwind. At this stage Laschet should have just stuck to April 2020 Armin which is clearly what he liked most. He only had to wait until the minority fed up with all confinement measures is large enough, which is now, ride that ca. 30% which gets larger in the business associations, get the Welt/Bild people on side and he would be home dry by now. Instead he got everybody to hate him.
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