New Local Ban Rules

 Here in my local state of Hessen yesterday, they added three new Covid-19 ban rules:

1.  So, depending on the infection rate (35 infections per 100k residents over 7 days, or 50 infections per)....you can arrange a private party situation at your house or some local pub.

If 35 infections over the past week occur, great....you can have 50 guests.

If 50 infections over the past week occur, not so great....you can only have 25 guests.

Now, if you were planning your wife's 50th birthday.....is it truly possible to now plan the event?  No..

You might have this planned, with a guitar player, and 48 guests....only to find 3 days prior to the party at your favorite pub.....that the infection rate shifted, and you have to cancel  22 guests. 

2.  For cafes, restaurants and pubs, and the private data requirement.....if you provide a incorrect data, or people are unable to be read it, or just plain fake names are on the sheet....50 Euro fine on the pub.  

I paused over this one.  My German wife has some of the most unreadable handwriting possible.  So I can already anticipate that if she writes the info down....the waiter is going to pause....hand the sheet back, and suggest I write it. 

3.  Finally, if you return from some high-risk area....you MUST go directly to your own house ASAP.  There, you will stay there in a quarantine situation unless you volunteer and pass a negative Covid test. 

The odds here?  I would imagine most folks with a tendency to travel to exotic and risky areas....will just shake their heads and just do in-country trips for the next two years....or until they find the vaccine which works.