Guilt-Trip Discussion

If you follow German public news (ARD and ZDF) over the past month....a lot of chatter over Covid-19, vacation agendas of regular Germans, and the guilt-trip put upon the vacation crowd (having left German) with their return with potential Covid-19. 

The majority of Germans (working-class) live and breathe upon the concept of summer arriving, and some type of vacation occurring (usually two to three weeks) where they get off from early June to late August, and uncoil from all that stress that has built up.

Naturally....staying in Germany is never a priority.  This is one of the reasons why beach vacations (Spain, Thailand, Turkey, Greece, etc) play a key role in vacation planning.

So with this late approval of out-of-country experiences now approved....folks want to leave and have a regular typical vacation.  That means close contact with people....no social distancing....boozing it up....and the odds improving that you will get Covid-19 over some period of the two week vacation.

The news journalists?  Well....it's a guilt-trip discussion which goes on nightly....the Germans taking these risks are unfairly bringing the disease back to Germany.

All the chatter driving mandatory testing at airports for the incoming folks?  Well, last weekend, the health ministers of the 16 states met, with the federal leadership.  They want mandatory testing....but this would come with a pricetag.  Added to this, which was carefully avoided by the journalists....there's no law that exists which say you MUST cooperate and take a test upon entry. 

If such a law had existed....it would have been used 2013-to-2016 for the mass entry of asylum seekers.  No one was tested for TB or anything.

That's the curious thing about this whole discussion.  You can ask folks to take a test, and as long as they desire it.....things would run fine.  If Germans don't want the test, you can't mandate it.

But this guilt-drama?  You kinda grin because you know that the jouranlists themselves are taking vacations, and likely slacking off on social distancing or taking risks themselves.