In general, at least for Americans (remember, we aren't intellectual or high-society)....we do know that when the 'fat lady stands and delivers her encore'....the show is over.
Well...today, 'Mutti' (Chancellor Merkel) stood up (actually sat there)....delivering the 'end' of phase one for the Coronavirus. We now embark (at least in the very near future) upon phase two....the recovery.
Dramatic? No. The Chancellor did her professor-style commentary....all logic....no political hype....no six guys standing around her to demonstrate anything. A slight grin, and it was over.
Seventy to eighty days, and it's over....the 6th of May 2020....Corona ended (well, in the Merkel-vision).
Dead at this point? Just over 7,000 at this point. Infected since day one? 167,000. However, I should point out....without mass testing....you have no true idea how many were infected. Some virus experts say that another 500,000 were infected, and showed marginally any symptoms. And remember....that's out of a 83-million population.
Remember too....the German rule was that you had to be noted with Corona....to die from it. You didn't have dimwitted German doctors stamping everyone who died, even from cancer or AIDS....as Corona-dead. The number is pure and actual.
A big deal? Well....it brought us to a recession, and tangled up vacation plans for forty-odd million Germans. It left some Germans stuck in Cape Town, Auckland, Sydney, and Peru. It hindered some Germans who can't cook, by limiting access to restaurants.
If you frequented bars and pubs prior to Corona.....you bought your beverages at the grocery and quietly sat on the balcony because of the ban-rules....listening to your wife hype on the woes of life or conversing over Corona 'this-and-that'. It wasn't the same as being with Henz or Manfred, but it was better than nothing.
You got stuck at home with your kids, and trying to help them with assigned home-work....to discover that you lost a vast amount of knowledge since the 7th grade, or that your kid is nowhere near as smart as you were in the 7th grade. You also lost your patience being with the kid....twenty-four hours a day, without any city park, or kid-companionship for the 'lovely' children.
You sat through hour by hour lectures by hundreds of experts, doctors, journalists, legal minds, and dimwitted politicians. At some point, you even wore out your 'mute-finger'....hitting it so often.
Some will admit that they read seven years of books....in that two-month period. Others will admit that they used more than 300 man-hours doing wall-paper work around the house, landscaping work, or rebuilding a 1966 Opel engine.
Some didn't miss much of anything.....continuing their heroin habit, or sipping through two bottles of vodka at the city park.
Some learned that they were absolutely essential for their job.....some learned they were absolutely non-essential.
Some learned to market new disinfectant type products, and made a wise path to their economic future.
Some battled the Coronavirus.....some battled Corona mental woes/stress (trying not to get it)....some battled and lost.
And now? The Chancellor says we move on. The fact that it's the sixteen Premier-Presidents (the state governors) who are dragging her and the cabinet? Best not to mention that part of the story.
A bold new world opens, and we'd best jump on the 'train'.
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