Christian Democratic candidate for German chancellor demands people learn to “live with the virus” The highly infectious Delta variant is spreading rapidly across Europe, threatening Germany with a fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Despite this, the ruling elite is hell-bent on intensifying its murderous “profits before lives” policy. This was made clear in the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state parliament last Friday by NRW minister president and Christian Democratic candidate for German chancellor, Armin Laschet. In an angry speech, he declared that there would be no more lockdown measures in Germany, even if infection rates sharply increased. “It’s obvious that the figures will increase in the autumn,” he said. “But the question is how do we deal with that? We will not follow (the approach of) closing everything again. We will do everything necessary to live with the virus.”