You can review a hundred different sources (either German, or European in nature, with various public TV journalists painting one image, and open-press presenting another image).
So I'll describe the protest movement in this way. Once the bans and shutdown business started in March....you had a limited period (a window) where people cooperated and played the exercise as stringent as possible. On my part, I'd say they were very lucky to get approximately 90 days of real participation out of this, and then they went to a relaxed ban situation, with heartburn by the general public over what remained.
The summer vacation season? If you took the risk to leave the country.....you found various little issues existing. Testing procedures are hyped-up and mandated.
School? The stay-at-home agenda marginally worked, with teachers saying now that kids probably did miss some critical knowledge 'gains'.
Loss of income? Ten-million Germans are on short-work, and getting a lesser paycheck. Tens of thousands of businesses are facing a rough period, and thousands will eventually declare bankruptcy.
Oktoberfest? Cancelled. Wine fests? Cancelled. Soccer games? The season was interrupted and only started up with 'ghost' games....meaning no fans in the stadiums.
Social media opened up this channel of discussion, and at the far extreme (mostly right)....you can probably say around two million Germans are not buying into more ban-chatter or ban-rules. Out of 83-million Germans, it's not a big deal. But the other side of this.....more and more Germans are frustrated and reaching a breaking point, so this radical anti-Corona behavior isn't that hard to attach one's self to, and accept.
Carnival season cancelled? This is coming up more and more. Christmas markets allowed only in the marginal sense? This is openly discussed now.
So the small nature of this group is going to expand over the next couple of months, and you will enter an election year.
This....the election year approaching....is what freaks German journalists, intellectuals and politicians out. You don't need ten-percent of German society hyped up and against national policy. No one wants an entire political campaign that is based primarily on easing Coronvirus rules/bans.
As for why no leftwing activity is attaching itself to the Covid-19 discussion? They've generally stayed with the normal topics of their movement. To be honest, they've probably skipped over the ban rules, and demonstrated that police efforts to control partying/drinking....are a waste of time. 'Rules are made to be broken' is more of their agenda.
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