Being unemployed now like many others because of this ... (self-censored German expression, impossible to translate) ... coronavirus, I and many of us Germans must admit - gnashing our teeth, because many of us do not really like her - that our chancellor Angela Merkel was correct in her almost scientific predictions about this disease and she is doing her job really acceptable and with efficiency, if not to say "good".
She also warned us very convincing in the most expressive manner, she is able to show.
Explanation: If you are not German, you will have to know that Queen Elisabeth II and Mrs Merkel have something in common: Both are probably the cold-bloodest and most self-controlled two women on this planet.
For example, Angela Merkel has one standard position with her hands, the so-called "Merkel-Raute" to calm down every sign of emotions in her and even in her adversaries:
There have already been lots of psychological and satirical articles about this way to hold her hands all times, even the "Economist" interpreted how she is always holding her hands as a magical and dangerous ring: "One ring to rule them all ... !"
en.wikipedia.org
Even her political enemies try to warn of this magic ("Mutti" is the German word for a rather superior "mum"):
Only once during the whole German history, Angela Merkel lost her magic ring for some minutes and therefore her self-control:
It was 2014: Germany wins the famous soccer game against Brazil 7 : 1.
Now, you can possibly imagine how extremely shocked we Germans must have been, when Angela Merkel held her very first "unprepared" TV speech to the German nation, talking on 18th of March about the future of Germany and the coronavirus, opening her hands like this right at the beginning of her speech, which is said to have been one of the best of her life:
Besondere Situationen erfordern besondere Maßnahmen: Zum ersten Mal in ihrer Amtszeit wendet sich Kanzlerin Merkel in einer Ansprache an die Menschen im Land.
www.zdf.de
Some Germans got into a status of shock which they did not leave until today because they saw for the first time in their lifetimes, that Angela Merkel opened her hands as if she would like to hug all Germans.
This was the moment, when we Germans knew that really hard times are ahead of us and we will have to prepare for a new kind of war, although this word was not mentioned as far as I remember.
In any case, you should not be surprised if the German national flag will one day soon look like this and you will now know why:
