This is simply my perception....a non-German in the background:
1. It is odd that the state governments are more in control of their destiny, than the Berlin leadership or the federal folks under Chancellor Merkel.
Night after night, you see indications of state decisions, and the Fed guys are just standing there....chatting to some ARD journalist, but really isn't a power-broker in this whole thing.
2. Hotels, restaurants, fitness clubs and bars have paid the supreme sacrifice for this past hundred days.
Some will never recover. Some will be will be in some debt crisis for the next five years.....to get back to a normal position in life.
3. We are at 8,423 deaths as of today....out of 83-million. The majority of them were over the age of 65, and the majority of them appear to have had a secondary contributing health issue.
4. Somewhere around day sixty of this....you started to notice Germans having lesser public interest in Corona news....something that the ARD public TV people were obsessed about and wanted to give you an additional 'dose' at 8:15 PM each night.
The interest in public forums and live chat with 'experts'? That also started dying off....maybe even a month prior (around day 40).
5. There just weren't a lot of extra temp clinics or field hospitals built out in the metropolitan areas. The bulk of infected people were given quarantine-at-home letters. The bulk obeyed the letter. Germans went and did what was necessary. It wasn't some soap opera thing, or fake saga. Panic-theatrics simply didn't take place.
6. It's just odd....not a lot of Germans hyped up to talk over some exotic vacation this June, July or August....in Thailand, Burma, Cape Town, or Miami.
They seem to have accepted this 2020 scenario....just to stay home, or keep it regionally (in dull Bavaria, or some quiet eastern rural forest).
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