Minutes of the fourth emergency cabinet meeting – redacted down to status reports points of contentions and decisions

Classified: Confidential

Transport: Losses of busses are as projected. Evacuations are also going on in the rates as planned. However, not in the geographic distribution that was predicted. They are clustered in terms of geographical distribution to a degree far in excess of predictions. Thus my people need to shift busses around to a much higher degree than predicted. For the railways we are seeing a similar effect, but here we are helped by damage being more concentrated. We need to close down fewer routes and have fewer detours. The ban on any non commercial aviation and private flights is keeping our air space clean, but it does not matter much one way or the other.

Motion: Keep the ban on flights – passed against 1 objection

Motion: Raises speed limits for busses to 130 km/h – passed against 3 objections

Motion: Drop the requirement for first aid course for bus drivers and allow anybody with a class BE to drive busses – passed against 2 objections

Motion: raise penalties for acting against orders in a convoy to 3 years of prison – passed against 3 objections

Interior: We are also seeing that refusals to evacuate are a lot more granular and variable than predictions. Basically we are seeing whole villages and small towns refuse until they have a monster attack in broad daylight and then they all want to be evacuated right now

Motion: Make looting a crime sui generis with a 10 year minimum penalty – passed against 5 objections

Health: We are seeing a whole plethora of new toxic monster causing hard to treat injuries. Some of these toxins turn out to be psychoactive.

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Motion: Allow medical students of the last year to act as doctors – passed without objections

Motion: Allowing toxicologists with an academic background to operate as medical professionals in some regards – passed against 3 objects

Motion: Erect special closed secure hospitals for those afflicted with toxins that make them unsound of mind – passed against 4 objections

Motion: allow for the quarantine of villages in which monsters with known dangerous toxins were fought – rejected with 1 more opponents than proponents

Motion: make vaccinations against communicable diseases as usually recommend mandatory for use of facilities for evacuees – passed against 5 objections

Economy: More and more varied instances of hoarding than predicted. We are also seeing the continued loss of wind power facilities at the upper edge of projections. We are also seeing a lot of monsters in the major rivers.

Motion: allow local authorities to impose per person limits even for goods not under rationing with a penalty of 1 year of imprisonment – passed against 3 objections

Motion: Reactivate all mothballed nuclear power plants and scrap plans to deactivate plants – passed against 5 objections

Motion: In case of future load shedding first target areas under evacuation orders - passed after a deadlock with the chancellor’s deciding vote

Motion: Use the navy to monitor major rivers and canals and give priority to ship repairs and vouch for repair out of public funds - passed without objection

Chancellor: During this meeting I have come to the conclusions that the ministers of justice and the environment are systematically opposed to this government’s course of action during this existential crisis. Do you have anything to say.

Justice: I am not ready to swipe away the fruits of decades of progress within days. We discussed this often enough.

Vice Chancellor: This is not the time for yet another source of chaos.

Chancellor: I appreciate that. But I’d rather have a brief period of further trouble now than endlessly drawn out obstruction. I am expecting your letters of resignation by tomorrow morning.