It’s such a thing with summer: When it’s finally here, you remember that it’s not as great as the anticipation of it. In the imagination, a summer goes something like this: In the morning you are woken up by the chirping of birds and the hum of bees because the CSU invented nature and is ensuring that nature can develop freely in Bavaria.
Then you throw on something airy made of undyed linen that you wouldn’t even use for cleaning in the other three seasons. During the lunch break, people eat Affogato because Bavaria is the northernmost thing in Italy. And in the evening you can sit in the beer garden by the water.
Since you can also grow mangoes in the Bavarian climate, summer tends to be like this: In the morning you are woken up by the next forest fire report, then you smear yourself with sunscreen. Hubert Aiwanger would possibly say state-prescribed anti-skin cancer gaga.
During the lunch break, you drink lukewarm apple spritzer to protect your stomach. And in the evening you sit in the beer garden by the water and get bitten. Not from native bees, but now resident tropical tiger mosquitoes. Markus Söder would probably not even campaign for them, even if it were about his political survival.
In Deggendorf, the mosquitoes were simply sucked away
Despite this overwhelming evidence, the summer social and cultural calendar is packed. Recently, for example, there was a Donaufest in Deggendorf, also called “All you can eat” for mosquitoes. But there they at least dealt with the new events and simply sucked the mosquitoes away. It must have worked so well that even Gerhard Polt, who had an appearance there, is said to have been very enthusiastic and wanted to have a suction cup himself, she writes Passau New Press.
Bavarian politicians should listen very carefully to something like this. Because if – as an old Bavarian peasant saying goes – the beach body is made in spring, then the winner of the state elections is made in summer. You could also learn from Hubert Aiwanger that nothing is more important than having your finger on the pulse of “normal people”.
So that all these normal people, i.e. everyone who hates mosquitoes, are not driven insane by itchy bites, the Free State should be supplied with mosquito vacuum cleaners across the board as soon as possible. Afterwards – when everyone no longer has to scratch themselves all the time – heat pumps and gender can be discussed again in peace and quiet.