Category: Corona

Inflation rates of just under 6 percent and an early end to the economic recovery in germany: the outlook for the end of the year has dimmed amid rising corona figures.

The bundesbank considers a jump of the harmonized consumer price index HICP, which is used by the ECB for its monetary policy, to almost 6 percent in november possible, according to the monthly report of the german central bank published on monday. At the same time, the economic recovery was allowed to take a breather in the fourth quarter.

A few days ago, my esteemed colleague alexander muller complained, quite rightly, that the corona regulations are becoming more and more complex. In fact, hardly anyone still knows what is allowed where and when, and why not.

Burocracy monster

We germans are simply bureaucratic monsters – nothing is easy for us, although from my point of view it could be so easy.

In the second corona year, the wallenfels local history calendar is once again a bright spot in the pre-christmas season. Pictures from old times, pictures of people who today can laugh about their childhood photos and pictures that make you think, because they show the simple life of past decades.

All this can be found on the twelve calendar pages, provided with dates and short descriptions of the photos. The title "sue woas halt froo fe uus" can only be understood by a native of wallenfels.

Karl-Heinz hofmann the glosberg theater club has been planning for a long time, and rehearsals have already begun. But now the performances of the play "die wilde kathy" planned for october are on the agenda – a tale in three acts by willy stock, in question because of the corona pandemic.

"We actually wanted to play in the fall of 2019 and had a longer rehearsal period completed. At that time, however, the rehearsals had to be postponed for a number of reasons. Then came "corona" in march of this year, says chairman clemens spindler and sighs.

Federal economy and climate minister robert habeck (grune) has called on the states to impose a moratorium on the possible repayment of corona emergency aid by companies.

This emerges from a letter from habeck to the economics ministers of the states, which was made available to the deutsche presse-agentur on wednesday. First the "handelsblatt" had reported about it.

Since the beginning of the corona crisis, chain letters have repeatedly appeared on whatsapp, facebook and co. At. Sometimes it is only about possible home remedies that supposedly help against the coronavirus, sometimes fake news is spread. You can read which chain letters are currently circulating about the coronavirus here.

In this article, we would like to take a closer look at one claim: in a widely circulated text, it is claimed that the coronavirus "dies at a temperature of 26 to 27 degrees".

During the egloffstein market town council meeting, which was held for corona reasons in the multipurpose hall affalterthal, there was a topic to be discussed that is also of great concern to the population: the renovation of the open-air swimming pool, which will remain closed this year due to corona hygiene regulations.

Mayor stefan fortsch (CSU) reported on a meeting in which the possible requirements and the implementation periods were discussed. Accordingly, egloffstein would only be eligible for the federal government’s special requirements program, which has been set up primarily for historic open-air swimming pools. "Since the historical bathing axis of the french switzerland is not only for the local population, but also for tourism and the local recreation region of very great importance and in addition the local sports clubs use the facilities for the increasingly important swimming lessons", according to CSU member of parliament silke launert (bayreuth/forchheim) during a visit to the freibad in february, she spoke out – now successfully – for the renovation of the freibader in egloffstein, grafenberg and streitberg. The renovation of all three pools is expected to cost a total of around 5.5 million euros. Around 3.8 million euros in federal subsidies will then have to be shared by the three communities as brothers. This means that egloffstein will have to spend around 2.2 million euros on the new baths, with a subsidy from the federal government of around 1.3 million euros, so that just under one million euros will have to be financed by the municipality. Since the federal government is granting subsidies, there is no money from the free state, fortsch made clear.