Am Upper Palatinate end of the world, where fox and hare and probably the bat so intimately goodnight say that there the first corona curfew Germany had to be imposed, was rampant even before the outbreak a comforting proverb. It reads Seltn a Schodn. Everything has its good. We have already dealt with the damage this plague does so extensively that it is indeed time to look for the benefits it brings. It actually exists if you think about it long enough.
We don’t mean this slowdown, which is tapped in some home offices – isolation can have strange effects – but a proven gain. Such as the one for Mitterteich’s popularity. Until the outbreak of the Corona crisis, the vast majority of the world had no idea how peaceful it was in this (well-known) town before the curfew. But now, even in the Midwest, one should know that the pearl of the northern Upper Palatinate is an oasis that rests as quietly as the carp ponds at its gates. That would have to promote future deceleration tourism tremendously if one-day freedom of travel is granted again.
Perhaps one should not necessarily expect that the Mitterteicher would then again serve strong beer as carefree as at that mega-corona party. But also alcohol not drunk, we also owe this knowledge to the virus, can be used for reasonable purposes. As was to be read in this newspaper, the alcohol that was withdrawn from the beer it freed is now being converted into disinfectants as unbureaucratically as the antifreeze in wine at that time in Austria. Large schnapps distilleries at home and abroad are finally doing something for public health in this way.
Alcoholic fermentation, the highlight of every school career since the “Feuerzangenbowle”, can, therefore, remain in the curriculum with a clear conscience. After months of internment in the company of the other siblings and parents, most of the schoolchildren no longer need the incentive for a “savory lock” of blueberry wine, even more so than ever going to school. The educational bureaucracy of Schleswig-Holstein, although tending to go it alone on the path of least resistance, should not refrain from dealing with the subject of alcohol. The school politicians there apparently often have one in their tea.
The biggest crisis winner besides the toilet paper industry is an adjective. It owes the virus an image change for the better, which cannot be imagined more radically. Nobody will dare to say: Don’t be so negative! Everyone wants to be negative now. The Chancellor obviously cannot hear this finding often enough, she can be tested so often. Music is “negative” but also in the ears of the ordinary citizen who stood in the corona line in front of the test center for hours, triggered to the mailbox for days or even weeks in the hope of finally getting the redeeming mail, and felt three hundred times at the health department called in order to always be answered with the result of the tape:
At this stage of the epidemic, we would now slowly advise our health department to update the announcement and perhaps also the offer. How about a seminar on the power of negative thinking?
