Corona News Chatter

There were two interesting pieces from ZDF 'media' last night (public TV in Germany, Channel Two).

First, via their 30-minute Auslands Journal program (always late at night)....they did a brief Coronavirus discussion which involved the meat-processing plant in the NW, and their employees....in particular....the Romanians.  It's about 7-minutes in length and worth watching.

So the jest of this....this German plant has a lot of non-Germans who work there.  Romanians appear to be the bulk of them.  They come in....are given 'quarters' and offered a pay-scale which is great compared to Romania, but limits them in various ways. 

The company offered up steel container type quarters.  Maybe in the beginning, the idea was to have just one guy, in one container (it's probably 10 ft by 12 ft, based on the image shown).  Later, they squeezed a second guy into the container.  Then later, a third, and later....a fourth.  Yeah, packed.  A little village with four times the original number planned. 

So when Corona came around, it was easily passed in the container room atmosphere.

There is some hostilities about how the arrangements were made, the handling of the Coronavirus situation, and some Romanians have given up on this meat-processing work. 

ZDF in some ways....dumped a whole lot of negativity upon the commercial operation, and made them look fairly foolish (they probably deserved it).

The second item was via the ZDF show 'ZOOM', another late-night news piece program.

They went to the folks who are anti-Corona, and anti-ban rules.  Over the past month, the usual response from the government and the news media....these people were all conspiracy freaks, and dumped upon.

So the ZOOM journalist went out to several folks were in the 'conspiracy' bucket and had a chat.

It's an interesting prospective.  The first was a couple of folks related to the hotel industry, and basically falling into a pit.  Their business hadn't returned to normal.....they were losing profits....and the future was not going to be kind to them.  You couldn't refer to them as conspiracy nuts. 

As they went through the others....the ban rules and damage done during April and May.....got dragged out.

You are left with this landscape.....there's no doubt that some conspiracy nuts exist, but a lot of these anti-Corona-anti-ban folks who have a legit reason to complain.  Business hasn't returned to normal, and in some cases....by the end of this year....a fair number of operations won't be open or functioning.  Layoffs are in the future, and banks will be unsettled over stability.