Thursday, March 19, 2020

This Curfew Chatter

Among the top ten German chatter topics with the Coronavirus....is this idea of a curfew coming.

Nationally, they don't have the authority to make it occur.  State-by-state or by city-level?  Yes, there are various ways that the state constitutions allow a curfew to be implemented. 

Why start this chatter?  Basically, we've had a warm spring period over the past month (throughout most of Germany), and people are gathering outside (yes, drinking beer, sharing gossip, and engaged in conversation over the virus).

This group-meet thing is now hyping up the possibility of more infections.

If they make the curfew happen?  I think most German cities are safe for the next week or so.  By late March?  I would suggest a two-week curfew period is likely to occur in most all German states. 

Effect on the cops?  Well....they really don't want to go and be curfew enforcers.  People with beer can be confrontational.

If you don't do it....you could have thousands of people gathered in the late afternoon/early evening....consuming beer, and potentially getting the virus.  Would Germans obey the curfew?  Maybe one out of three....the rest would just laugh over the curfew chatter and socialize anyway. 


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