Only one issue still moves the world
Time change, daylightsaving - pronounced: däi-leit-säi-wing - finally-sleep-out-and-then-get-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night-and-change-the-clocks day is currently a thorn in our overtired side, as we sleep fitfully anyway. The day, which should not have existed for a long time, has now come at a time of crisis and is throwing us completely off track. Yesterday it was still light at 5 o'clock in the morning, today the sun is already not rising all day because winter is returning. To coincide with the start of daylight saving time, it is snowing at altitudes of 300 metres and above.
It is fortunate that the largest area of the Federal Republic is below this limit, especially the capital (i.e. Bonn). Otherwise, a state of emergency could possibly be declared and curfews imposed because black ice could cause people over the age of 65 to slip and injure themselves because they are unable to see for themselves what danger they are in.
Public life has to be shut down because media hysterical individuals have no overview.
The unprecedented onset of winter is leading to hoarding purchases of toilet paper so that people can use it to insulate themselves from heat as they stack it from floor to ceiling along all the outside walls of their homes. Another purpose is to wrap one's feet with it, because there is currently no way to wear shoes anymore.
In France, a young woman with no previous illness has now slipped, and the medical community is still puzzling over whether the measures taken might be altogether nonsensical in preventing an outbreak of cold.
In Sweden, no measures have been taken except to point out the overall popular social distancing so that no one nearby can catch the fall if someone slips. Besides Brazil, the Scandinavian country is the only one that refrains from scare tactics. It's obvious with Brazil, but the Swedish go-it-alone should be looked at more closely, since it's only about Europe and not, say, Africa or South America:
The country knows more about winter and its peculiarities than anyone else. Equality, oversized bumpers on cars, cashless payment with smartphones in bakeries were invented there, all cool decisions that could only be made in the appropriate weather. Within the EU, however, consideration is being given to expelling Sweden from the community of states because of its stubbornness, if it weren't for the problem that this is not even provided for in the Charter, and then where should one go skiing; Tyrol, for example?
The return of summer is expected by the end of April, i.e. spring, which according to meteorological regulations lasts until June. And then it is also guaranteed to be light again in the morning. The citizens' survey of 1793 has been completely forgotten; somehow no one had written down that the unelected technocrats wanted to know whether anyone needed a time change or considered it useful. No one wanted to miss the extra work for people and technology that they had come to love. The commissions in Brussels can argue that they were not elected and therefore do not have to take democratic principles into account. While one could still say: 'paper is patient', a completely different standard applies to online petitions: 'it is never written and simply gets lost in the gaps between zero and one', Or does anyone still remember whether they took part or how they voted?
Now it's a matter of sticking with the wrong time for the next seven months; no one has to fear jet lag at the moment, after all, because no one works any more. And since you can't make appointments any more, no one needs a clock, and who counts the chimes on the church tower? ... So why all the excitement?