Care crisis - Either die young and healthy or get involved in good care.

"I'm in a bad way!" sang the Frankfurt Complaints Choir in a song about the care crisis that had been specially composed for our lie-in campaign on 10 December.

I'm in a bad way - Just thinking about a retirement home - Where old people are apathetic - Where the nurse can only leave after hours - Because she's just overwhelmed - I'm in a bad way, because today is another day like this, I'm in a bad way.

Passers-by stopped and listened, read the various banners lying on the street and wanted to know more about our campaign. People came who work in care, people who are thinking about their future in old age, young people who suddenly became thoughtful.... signed our flyers and took some with them to hand out. The weather had been kind to us. A bright sun and dry ground made it easier for us to actually lie down: three of us lay down on an orange mat on the ground in front of the Brockhaus fountain for 10 minutes. How can people be cared for when working conditions are getting worse and worse? When the individual activities are being performed faster and faster, when the care profession is becoming increasingly differentiated and central components are being outsourced? It's about people, not just about a body that needs to be washed, fed and given medication. It's also about a smile, the feeling of being valued, time for a conversation, counselling. It's about relationship work, which is important for the person in need of care as well as for the carer. After all, a carer wants to be more than just a robot that performs certain standardised gestures. However, this is falling victim to the general pressure to save money, with the result that more and more carers feel frustrated and burnt out and cheated out of the best part of their job, while those in need of care feel neglected, even neglected.

I feel bad - because care shouldn't cost anything - because it's best done by mum.

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Then I look at my pension statement - Then I give up Mother's Day - I feel bad because today is another one of those days, I feel bad.

Yes, care should preferably be organised as a private matter. As unpaid and invisible as possible. Poor due to care? - Oh,

I'm miserable - women's family work is free - but not the care in return - women who are alone in old age - no husband, no children, no money - I'm miserable because today is another one of those days, I'm m miserable

. Right, women should take on the lion's share, because they are predestined for it, they are so loving and are naturally happy to do the unaffordable - which therefore doesn't need to be paid for.

I'm miserable - When with so much hardship in the country - the number of billionaires is constantly increasing - When the thrift at the bottom only saves money - But every crash is paid for by taxes - I'm miserable because today is another one of those days, I'm miserable

. But nothing is fatal. There is another way, and that's what we want to say with our campaign: there needs to be a redistribution. Priorities have to be set differently, and then what the chorus of complaints proclaims will come true:

I'm fine - If the money lasts until the first - If the rent doesn't get more expensive - If the shopping frenzy has stopped - The good life is in sight - I'm fine, because today is another one of those days, I'm fine.