In Germany, the government is preparing a disputed curfew

Chancellor Merkel is going all out to stop the third wave of infections, and she will probably fail. Or rather, the third wave will pass despite its measures.

First of all, the government's " Emergency Brake ", as already announced, sees the end of collaboration with the Lander: with the change of the federal law against infections, the government will no longer be obliged to listen to the committee composed of the federal states, but it will act autonomously and uniformly throughout Germany. The measures are announced to be tough and foresee, once the 100 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants are exceeded:

• lockdown for non-food stores or in special categories;
• closure of all catering activities;
• sports ban, except alone or with family members;
• curfew from 9 in the evening to 5 in the morning.

This last measure is particularly contested also because it refers to the sad moments of the war. there had not been a curfew in Germany since the end of the world war. Not to mention that the WELT questions its effectiveness and constitutional regularity: in fact, in an interview with the German jurist Leisner-Egensperger who highlights how the imposition of the curfew affects a series of German constitutional rights, difficult to defend the proportionality with respect to the threat of the virus and how, even, it can be counterproductive from a health point of view. the Virus is now known, it spreads very little outdoors, so forcing people to stay closed at home could lead to an increase, not a decrease, in infections.

Without wishing to get into legal issues, the reasoning comes out pretty well on the health effectiveness of leaving the house: if, as scientifically found, only 0.1% of infections occur outdoors, then it makes no sense to keep people indoors, paradoxically, they should be forced to go out, not to gather, perhaps, but to stay outdoors. Instead they try to impose the opposite, but

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