Thread by @tante

Germany basically shifted to a "herd immunity" (just let the fuckers die) strategy because planning for vaccinations in the months before the delivery was kinda annoying and people were busy with election campaigns or holidays.

I know that some people still think that Germany kinda knows what they are doing with the pandemic but that's totally untrue. There's no strategy, the policy is basically written by tabloids and in spite of numbers jumping up, we decided to open shit up. Now.

If I wanted to destroy trust in the political system and the general idea of politicians being competent, I'd do exactly what the German state and federal governments are doing.

(Did I mention that a bunch of members of parliament from the conservative party, who basically always governs, are involved in weird corruption schemes around PPE and shit?)

Germany might not yet be a failed state but the political systems and the political bougie class failed hard.

I'm sure glad we "saved the economy" (as in "rich people's yacht money"). I'm totally happy to wait another year for a vaccination and I'm super happy about my kid probably catching the virus before he can be vaccinated.

I mean at least it's no longer the "Hey, we got ourselves vaccinated so open up the restaurants for us so we can eat fucking Schnitzel" discourse anymore.

I just hoped we'd get the "okay, how can we do a proper lockdown and get people the resources they need to survive these weeks" discourse and not the "Fuck people, we got too many of them anyways and it kills more poor people, so we're cool" discourse.

(And let's not kid ourselves: If #AstraZeneca was "our good German vaccination" we'd never think about a pause. The pandemic really brings all the deeply rooted xenophobia, racism and supremacy Germany's unconscious is built on to the front)

But we'll get Immunity passes with blockchains and crap so a bunch of well-connected serial scam artists can make a few bucks off this crisis.

The handling of the pandemic in Germany illustrates in shocking, painful, brutal clarity how much Germany has never really dealt with its fascist tendencies.

I apologize. I might be slightly pissed off. A teeny tiny bit.

I'm not saying that governing a country is easy.
I'm also recognize that sometimes you need compromises meaning nobody gets what they want or need.

I get that. I still thing that basically everyone in German politics should get a different job.

Okay. Enough vented. Sorry for this stream of anger and frustration.

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