The varnish of liberality

The wave of flu is over, now the shards of our economic and social model must be swept up. The ugly side of our neo-liberal society is becoming visible: the rich countries had to fear whether their run-down health care systems would be able to cope with a mass panic, in the poorer countries brutalization set in, and morality and decency in dealing with illness and death proveto be useless, were left asidea. Political apocalyptic mood spreading....

The flu wave is over, now the pieces of our economic and social model must be swept up. The ugly side of our neoliberal form of society is becoming visible: the rich countries had to fear whether their run-down health systems would be able to cope with a mass panic, in the poorer countries brutality set in, customs and decency in dealing with illness and death proved to be of no use and were put aside calmly. Political apocalyptic sentiment spreads “After the crisis nothing will be as it was before”.

As already after the fall of the “Third Reich”, the subject mentality has not disappeared. The Stasi thinking that the former citizens of the GDR still know well is officially promoted. The prime ministers of the federal states act like little Mielkes and make spying, denunciation and harassment a law. Police rule the streets. They have not yet dared to imprison the spokesmen of a resistance or to expel them and withdraw their citizenship. Would the Federal Constitutional Court then also duck? When prosperity falls away, the free democratic basic order becomes an empty phrase.

The interaction with the media works excellently, they continuously spread the legend of the malicious virus in order to frighten the people. The political class wants to continue to do so after the end of the flu wave and is spreading the horror scenario of a second wave of infection, which would be imminent to maintain the state of overriding fundamental rights for as long as possible.

If the people enter consciousness, which many have long suspected that the flu virus was inflated to an extraordinary risk and served to justify a demonstration of power, the extent of the long-emerging economic crisis becomes visible.

It was so close to tying up medical imposters from the Charité for a political hussar ride. So you can spread the blame for the breakdown over several shoulders. It is remarkable, however, that the left-liberal press would unanimously and blindly follow the government course, while the more right-wing FAZ also revealed the sober truth. There was still a bit of decency not to go along with the fraud.

But how should the political class and its media followers now get out of the forced situation? Of course they will summon the lock down as a rescue, make all sorts of statistics and feign care for the old and the sick. But she won't be able to talk nicely about the economic and socio-political lock down.