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I don’t understand the connection, sorry.

I take my hat off to everyone who is now working in care, nursing, and medical fields – often to the limit of their capacity. I really felt sick when the complaints started before Christmas about not being able to celebrate Christmas "properly" anymore because everyone couldn’t be together. I wondered how that complaining must sound to an intensive care nurse who can’t even think about HOW she would like to celebrate Christmas, but only if she will have time at all between her shifts.

The situation in intensive care units, where our medical care is at its limit, is again partly caused by people who simply do not follow the rules.

And that’s exactly why I don’t understand why people can’t just restrict themselves a bit now. I’m not saying it’s fun. It’s probably no fun for anyone – but in my view, it’s simply unavoidable right now. And when I see popular destinations that are completely overcrowded, and the result of such a day is that an already overstretched hospital then also has to take care of a bunch of accident victims, my understanding is at zero at best.
There are other ways to spend leisure time, and even if these aren’t as nice, trendy, exciting, or fashionable – they are exactly what is still possible right now.

I also can’t listen to the complaints about lost years and all the things that aren’t possible anymore. None of us chose this, but that’s just how it is. We have houses, apartments with heating, we have food, we don’t have to fear being bombed – we just can’t do exactly what we like to do for a foreseeable period of time. Not nice, but it could definitely be much worse, in my opinion!

And when I read: "I live on the city outskirts and have a garden" – well, then: use it! It should be enough for children. Their main need is to move around, and you don’t need snow, a sledding hill, or an ice skating rink for that – it works without those things as well.
I live near the mountains, I don’t have a 15km (9 miles) rule because our district is below an incidence rate of 200, but I still don’t go ski touring on less frequented mountains that I’m quite familiar with. I don’t want to take the risk of ending up in a hospital with a broken leg or a torn ligament. I go for walks, maybe take a bike ride, and watch my nieces and nephews sledding down a hill because they can’t go skiing right now either. We are just lucky to have snow right on our doorstep.
In summer, we would have preferred the sea...

Winniefred schrieb:

And with that, I’m out. I expose myself to a significantly higher risk of infection every day to keep things running in the medical field.

Thank you.

The exercise of our own freedom to the luxurious extent that we enjoy in Central Europe only works within a framework that enables this by creating and organizing a balance of interests with the freedom of others. Some have forgotten that as part of this system, which we call democracy, they bear a shared responsibility. This responsibility does not merely involve occasionally going to vote, but above all taking part and showing interest (in the original sense of the word: inter (Latin for “between”) and esse (“to be”), meaning “to be in between”—in other words, to participate).
We have forgotten that we mostly live lives of privilege and have failed to distinguish what is truly important from what is merely desirable. I include myself in this explicitly because I often have to laugh at myself about how difficult I find some restrictions. For example: I can’t take my camper van to the workshop on Saturday because it is not within a 15-meter (9-mile) radius. I found that really annoying. Then I had to laugh, because objectively the importance of this is really marginal—just like a trip to Winterberg.

Are you sure you’re not allowed to bring your motorhome to the workshop? Here, running errands outside is also permitted, and repairs are not considered leisure activities. That’s actually the only restriction.

I am not allowed to leave the 15km (9 miles) radius for a non-essential trip, which is understandable. The virus does not care about the reason for its spread. The logical consequence is simply to postpone the repair to a later date. The workshop is 120km (75 miles) away. Besides that, even if it were allowed, it would not be a considerate action. Not everything that is permitted is necessarily the right thing to do. To be honest, I have to admit that although I cannot do whatever I want, my life is not really restricted by this. The same applies to a sledding trip to Winterberg or something similar — better to just skip it.

If you don’t need the camper van, it’s not necessary.
In the neighboring district, they are currently debating whether it counts as a day trip or a sporting activity without the character of an excursion.
At an incidence rate above 300.
Because of this, they are closing all public parking lots again.

Climbee schrieb:

The situation in the intensive care unit is such that our medical care is at its limit, and again, people not following the rules are partly responsible.

It’s not only the people who are to blame, but also the staff who tolerate it and the managers who increase their profits every year.

In March, it was said that we are doing well because we have so many hospitals, but by summer, there was suddenly talk about closing some to be more economical.

For example, Helios made around 1 billion in profit in 2019.