{"id":1410,"date":"2021-11-14T09:20:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T14:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2021-11-14T13:58:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T18:58:28","slug":"shutdown-two-week-fifty-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2021\/11\/14\/shutdown-two-week-fifty-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Shutdown two, week fifty-four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth wave is here; Germany has a record number of new infections, and the incidence in Cologne is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stadt-koeln.de\/artikel\/69443\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">220<\/a> right now. With a dysfunctional acting government and a not-yet-functioning incoming government, we are stumbling headfirst into disaster. Hopefully, a full lockdown is coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>The absolute low point this week was when the chairperson of the fringe liberal party, Christian Lindner, was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wenig_worte\/status\/1459277166944915456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">schwurbling on TV<\/a>\u00a0that it was scientifically proven that contact reductions would not reduce infections with the Corona-Virus. They might end up in our next government &#8211; we&#8217;re so doomed.<\/p>\n<p>COP26 was similarly a <a href=\"https:\/\/climateactiontracker.org\/publications\/glasgows-2030-credibility-gap-net-zeros-lip-service-to-climate-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disaster<\/a> &#8211; our acting government avoided any form of commitment and didn&#8217;t even sign the declaration ending internal combustion engines or firmly commit to stopping burning coal.<\/p>\n<p>Reaching a compromise in politics is challenging work &#8211; but why are most people in power (mainly men) so unbelievably ignorant towards scientific facts?<\/p>\n<p>On a positive note, our labor minister is preparing a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeit.de\/arbeit\/2021-11\/hubertus-heil-arbeitsminister-spd-homeoffice-pflicht-3g-regel-arbeitsplatz-corona-massnahmen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">home office mandate<\/a> &#8211; yay!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screenshot_20211114-093515_edited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"Screenshot_20211114-093515_edited\" src=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screenshot_20211114-093515_edited_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot_20211114-093515_edited\" width=\"774\" height=\"389\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Festival of Lights, Pok\u00e9mon Go, 11\/14\/21)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth wave is here; Germany has a record number of new infections, and the incidence in Cologne is at 220 right now. With a dysfunctional acting government and a not-yet-functioning incoming government, we are stumbling headfirst into disaster. Hopefully, a full lockdown is coming soon. The absolute low point this week was when the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/2021\/11\/14\/shutdown-two-week-fifty-four\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shutdown two, week fifty-four<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9,19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climateemergency","category-cologne","category-fridaysforfuture","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXpA-mK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chfrank.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}