The incidence is increasing and increasing. Or is the key figure irrelevant because other markers have long been decisive for assessing the pandemic situation? Anyway, further on in the text, the omicron wave rolls and rolls, the booster has found its way into the upper arm, and there comes the gentle recommendation for the fourth vaccination. In the meantime, the virus is happily mutating, every molecular shift in the spike protein is reported, and countries that were just a role model are again reporting infection records. Why? next question please The corona information storm front has been rumbling, thundering and flashing for two years. The latest developments at a glance, bang, bang, the most important answers to the most important questions, on, on, Karl Lauterbach, in our studio today.
It takes more and more strength to keep your head above water and to perceive all this. In the circle of acquaintances, of course anything but representative, give up more and more. They can’t take it anymore, they say, they would have lost track of things long ago anyway. It just kind of goes on, mask, of course, vaccination, yes, yes, testing too, and otherwise the motto is: I’m out, leave me alone.
The thicker the jungle of information grows, the harder it is to separate fact and fiction
Yes, that’s not reasonable, but understandable. Two years of pandemic, two federal governments, 16 prime ministers, at least four major talk shows and other channels: the daily corona cacophony provokes fatigue. After reading the news, there is often a kind of news effect: when it comes to the weather, everything is long forgotten. What did I just read? Now who said what? What is right now? And who should you believe? The thicker the jungle of information grows, the harder it is to separate fact and fiction. Is what the physicist Roland Wiesendanger just said about the origin of the virus insane or is it worth considering? If 20,000 people are yelling in a football fan base (before the pandemic, of course!), it is also difficult to filter out reasonable voices.
It’s a dilemma. On the one hand, there must be reports and there is a kind of obligation to inform oneself. On the other hand there is fatigue, being overwhelmed by the amount of information and the growing urge to switch off. In the end you just wait for the answer to the most important of all questions: When will the madness finally end?