Germany is following suite with other European countries and stops free testing in October. Why? Free testing on a massive scale and using masks felt like the

Germany is following suite with other European countries and stops free testing in October. Why? Free testing on a massive scale and using masks felt like the fastest road to normality. 1. Protect children Even though I am vaccinated i can still catch and transmit the Rona. That chance is even higher as i am potentially asymptomatic. Living together and having often contact with children who cannot be vaccinated makes that a huge problem. I do not want to expose the little ones to serious long term health issues. 2. Go to events / economy In that regard, i felt safe to go to events or indoor activities where I knew everybody was tested negative. Now we can have super spreader events again. So I will avoid indoors. 3. Stop mutations Until we have an anti viral that is effective once you are sick, the overarching goal should still be to have as few infected as possible. The more people have it, the higher the chance of further mutations. The kicker is that now when a mutation occurs in a vaccinated person it will favor a variation that properly has immune escape rendering the vaccine efforts useless. If the government thinks it is an effective instrument to convince anti vaxxers to get a shot (which I doubt) make only them pay for tests. If the arguments would have been that the tests themselves have become less effective to detect the Delta strain or that too many test centers are scammers, i could totally get behind a discussion. But then the solutions would be much different and not "stop free testing". Our short sighted government has bet everything on the vaccines to be the ultimate answer to the pandemic. Watch them scramble in 7 month when a omega variant occurs that hits like a hammer and circumvents the immune response of the vaccinated. Then we will again hear the all to familiar phrases of "who could have seen that? No one predicted that!" We get full lockdowns as there have been no further improvements in the public health departments, IT infrastructure or new concepts to make class rooms safe. In the end our children, teens and 20 somethings will suffer under the measures the most by robbing them of another year of what should have been carefree joyful youth.