1. There was a comment on Twitter this morning....discussing the impending shutdown over Covid. The German responded that 'the German economy hadn't been destroyed enough....so another lockdown was urgently necessary to finish up the job....Chancellor Merkel, please take over'.
There are various elements of German commerce which are barely surviving and I would suggest that 20-percent of the public is shaking their head over the direction of things, with no great expectations out of the coalition government.
2. Via social media commentary, some Germans are observing that a vast amount of the summer period with low numbers....was totally wasted. Efforts to protect vulnerable people (the older generation) should have taken place, and the working-class people should have been dealt minimal restrictions at this point in the 'game'.
3. Some social commentary is labeling the current government as not that much different from the old Erich Honecker government of DDR. Probably more sarcastic/cynical in nature....but the DDR were 'control-freaks' at the 9th-degree level.
4. Someone via social commentary pointed out that back in March/April....your basic choice of food was pick-up, and it was limited to burgers, doners, kebabs, and pizza. They fear the return of this type of atmosphere.
5 Another German made the sarcastic commentary....'we are on the right track....getting the death count up, and thus saving the pension program which was in a negative spiral before all of this happened'.
6. Fair amount of commentary on shifting of family budgets to meet absolute needs. Christmas spending? Lot of people chatting over a lesser sum to be spent this year.
7. Another German sarcastically pointed out (via social media) that various schools are officially open with 1,000 students attending, while the CDU Party is unable to conduct the December conference because they are in such fear of the virus.
I think the wisdom on the CDU Party cancellation is that 30-percent are over the age of sixty and you might wipe out a whole segment of the political party.
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