There's a big long piece over at Focus this morning, which I would strongly recommend a read. I'll tell the basic story and how it relates to Germans, with their frustration level maxing out.
About 20 minutes driving NW out of Dortmund (way up in the NW of Germany)...is the town of Hamm (180k residents).
Three weeks ago....a couple went and had a wedding ceremony....with all the extras (including a catered out party afterwards). 309 total guests at the party. Social distancing and ban rules? Thrown out entirely....it appears. High number of participants with Covid-19 now.
The mayor? Blasting away at the people who organized and ran the ceremony/wedding party. He's presently talking about some type of fine business upon those who ran the event.
As you dig into the piece....the whole mess started at the bachelorette party, with abandonment of the ban rules.
Because of the increased number of infected, the city is pushing for extreme measures on all 180-odd thousand residents.
Mismanagement of the event and the fine? Well....whoever is the figure at the top of this mess...could end up with a fine of 25k Euro, and possibly even jail-time (five years). As for each individual? If they can establish (maybe via video of the event)....the 1.5 meter social distance rule was thrown out....then it's a 200 Euro fine for each person on that situation.
Just on legal costs for the wedding couple and their parents, you have to figure at least 10k Euro to be spent now defending themselves and trying to avoid the hefty fine (25k Euro). Each single guest being dragged up to some judge to tell their part of the story? This could easily turn into some fiasco....that you'd never want to attend another wedding in your life.
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