1. Infected: 14,995 (Focus data derived from Health Ministries of each German state). Dead: 44. Differing numbers from the RKI folks? Yes, and this begs questions.
2. The curfew in Freiburg. It will run from 21 March to 3 April. Basically, you are limited to the house/apartment that you live in. You cannot roam in any public place. You can attend doctor appointments, buy groceries, and go to work. Beyond that....nothing. If you go out, you have to keep 1.5 meters of distance from people you encounter. Parties with guests? Forget about that idea.
3. Netflix says it'll 'throttle' data volume in Europe over the next month, to relieve 'the networks'. It's a curious problem....you've sent all these people home, and there's nothing much to do, with mostly crap on regular public-TV, so it'd be the perfect time to watch five or six entire TV series off Netflix.
4. Several incidents have occurred this week at grocery stores, as clerks tried to limit customers purchases of toilet paper. To some extent....it's actually gotten violent, with physical actions involved.
5. ARD (public TV) reported in a poll that one out of three Germans simply aren't that worried about the virus or the hype.
6. G7 Conference that was supposed to be in the US in June? Cancelled.
7. Bundesliga economic woes? The German soccer league is in serious trouble. Various clubs won't survive this period (games shut-down) as it stands right now. N-TV had a good article over this.
You could very well reach a point by mid-summer where certain clubs have folded up and can't participate, and you elevate 2nd league teams up.....only because you have empty slots and no premier teams in a financial condition to participate.
8. From the 2,000-odd deaths in Italy for the virus....ONLY five of them were under the age of forty, and ALL five had serious other ailments in the mix. N-TV reports this today. 198 of these deaths were people over the age of 90. 1,500-odd Italians were between the ages of 70 and 89.
Almost fifty-percent of the dead Italians had three or more illnesses in the recent past. The mix of blood pressure medications/problems and diabetes figures heavily into the death count.
No major studies done of the Germany numbers yet, but I might go and expect the same type of data....older folks and secondary issues.
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