by Oliver JJ Lane
Breitbart.com
The new chairman of Germany’s ruling CDU who may yet replace Angela Merkel as Chancellor has called for the nation to enter an even deeper lockdown, as it battles with low rates of vaccination and coronavirus ‘third wave’.
Armin Laschet, who is the President of German state North Rhine Westphalia and since January the Chairman of the nation’s ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party argued for what he called a ‘bridge lockdown’ Monday, saying present terms were not harsh enough.
Using the metaphor of a bridge over troubled waters, Laschet fundamentally implied that lockdown needed to go deeper and longer, until enough Germans were vaccinated to make coronavirus less of a threat to German society. This, in many respects, is no small ask — after months of failures at European and national level, Germany is well behind first-world peers like the United Kingdom and United States in vaccination levels.