If you open up the front page of any German newspaper today, or view morning news....the big item is that Germany is putting together a 'crisis-team' to handle the Coronavirus.....from both the Interior Ministry (their Homeland Security group) and the Health Ministry. Seehofer (as Interior Minister) and Spahn (as Health Minister).
Right off the bat, it's openly said that no major fests or mass events should be cancelled. In various urban communities....that cancellation theme is already occurring for the next two or three months (certainly not all of them but it's obvious that communities are already in reaction mode).....so they've already gone past the advice of the federal government of Germany.
What the crisis-team is pushing is home-quarantine. So if you were in the 'wrong' railway car or on the elevator with Herr X.....the authorities can demand you stay at home. To be humble and honest here....it's hard to see how nationally this policy would work. A lot of people work on an hourly schedule, and to miss 40-plus hours of work.....really screws up the pay-check at the end of the month.
Kids on home-quarantine? They are saying that homework assignments can still occur, and they can do online activities.
There are a fair number of Germans now who think that the emergency talk should have occurred a month ago, and all fests should have been cancelled entirely.
On public appearances in the past week? Spahn has done a fairly adequate job, but the questions by moderators and journalists have gone to speculation type scenarios.....where Spahn can't answer the question, and it shakes confidence in his program.
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