Someone in the German news media brought it up today, and I kinda sat there amazed.
When you rack and stack all the public characters who get air-time or public forum invitations involving any discussion of Covid-19....it's roughly 90-percent CDU-CSU folks.
Yes, there might be three or four SPD (left-of-center) folks in the mix, but no Greens, no FDP, and no Linke Party.
The medical folks or experts? Generally unattached to any party, and they probably make up a good one-third of guest time.
For 13 months, it's been that way.
The only two major SPD characters that you generally see? The Finance Minister (vice-Chancellor) and the SPD health expert (Lauterbach).
It is luck at the basic end of this discussion....the virus came along at the time when all the major functions of government in the middle of an epidemic just happened to be CDU-CSU.
Free advertising? In some way, they've carried a lot of charm, and been lucky in that no significant screw-ups have occurred.
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