1. German states with the most deaths since day one? Bavaria - 2,639. Baden-Wurttemberg - 1,867, and NRW - 1,819.
2. Fines for failing to wear a mask starting to be common thing? A bus-tour company was transporting folks from Passau to Berlin, and was 'audited' by the police for masks. The fourteen passengers will be fined 250 Euro (roughly $300) and the bus company will get a 5,000 Euro (roughly $6k) fine. They aren't joking about this stuff.
In the Hanover region, cops went out in a mass patrol, and cited 10k individuals in one single day. 900 police were used for that effort.
3. HR (public TV in Hessen) brought up the topic that when the police do an audit and they can see you from some distance without the mask....when they walk up and you suddenly flip the mask up....that's NOT good enough, and the 50-Euro fine still continues on you. You can see a fair number of folks around bus stops or within stores....with the mask marginally on, but below the nose.
4. A statement was made by the Hessen Premier President Volker Bouffier (basically the state governor) via HR yesterday.....that he expects Covid-19 chaos to be around for "years" (in the plural).
5. Polling took place via ARD (public TV, Channel One):
- 64-percent of Germans have no problem in restricting or downsizing Christmas markets for the upcoming season.
- 86-percent of Germans have no problem in curtailing or eliminating Carnival fest operations (like fasching parties or parades).
- On being forced to wear a mask at work....ONLY 38-percent of Germans supported the idea. Over 50-percent said it was a bad idea.
- Government satisfaction? The poll said 66-percent of Germans were happy with the Merkel coalition.
6. The argument over who should get the Covid-19 vaccine first, when it is finally delivered (probably starting in the first quarter of 2021)? Well...a Focus article suggested that talk is already starting up.
The chief discussion....should doctors/nurses get it, or senior citizens?
The article is worth a read, and you can sense that by the time they get to the second level....police, firemen, essential workers.....it might be 300 days after release before the average guy on the street gets the vaccination.
7. Finally, the German government is admitting that around 4,300 German companies will be classified as 'zombie-companies' by the end of 2020....meaning they are bankrupt and under government control. The program puts a government-contracted lawyer in charge of the company, while they restructure and try to save the company (using government funds of course).
The odds that they can survive and be sold off in 2021? Statistically, in a normal economy, there might be some marginally good odds. But this is not such an economy now, or in 2021. The government will carry the employees and companies through all of 2021 (an election year) in hopes of preventing mass terminations and problem unemployment.
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