1. Went German grocery shopping today. I would suggest that 5-percent of folks have the facial mask on. Crowd is fairly thinned out....maybe half what you'd expect. Toilet paper? Cleaned out.....you have to be there as the store opens (big sign in the aisle...ONE roll per customer).
2. Signs in closed shops saying 19 April.....reopening. Nothing official. Hessen government could delay it another 30 days.
3. Weather in the next ten days will be hitting enough to go without a jacket. At that point, the ban on public gatherings and such....will be hard for cops to enforce.
4. Food shortages? Every single politician who appears on TV....says it won't happen. Oddly, farmers aren't there and they aren't saying much of anything. Without the spring non-German assistance in the planting period and harvest of a couple of spring crops.....not much is going to happen with a couple of crops. At the least, I would suggest that most all fruits and vegetables will be escalating by 25-percent minimum by the middle of May.
5. Gas prices at 1.20 Euro a liter? Yep. Very low.
6. I would suggest that 10-percent of Germans are working extra-hard and fulfilling all of their normal man-hours. Beyond that? Maybe 50-percent are either on zero-work or curtailed hours. One group is stressed out.....the other is getting 'cabin-fever'.
7. If you own or run a hotel....you are counting every single day on losses, and trying to figure out the path ahead.
8. The charity-run welfare 'markets' are running on fumes. Severe pain being suffered by the welfare crowd at this point.
9. The amount of Corona-hype on public TV is reaching a level where you need to force yourself to turn the TV entirely off and just listen to Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra tunes.
10. Karstadt (the major department store chain) is applying bankruptcy papers today. I don't think they will be the last big name store to do so.
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