Saturday, October 10, 2020

Germany and Covid-19: 10 Oct 2020

 1.  Frankfurt announced it's newest stringent Covid ban rules.  Pretty weird set-up.  You actually need a map of the city to understand the rules.  There are like eleven districts or areas of the city where alcohol can't be sold.  Naturally, you could 100 meters beyond the 'zone' and buy booze.  There's a second map which has to  do with masks required in any public area (sidewalks, open areas, etc)....there's a minimum of eight districts (from what I can figure from the map) that you have to wear a mask. Yes, if you went 100 meters out of this zone situation...you would not be required to wear the mask.

Confusing?  Absolutely, but this is the remarkable state of operations in the city.....where you start down some street, and some cop runs up to you on reminding you that this is the district requiring the mask....so you reverse to the side street where it's mask free.  

Along the river banks?  That's all alcohol 'verboten'.  

2.  650,000 consumers still wait on their refund of tickets cancelled for Lufthansa flights.  Court action?  Probably, but I doubt that the airline has the funds left to pay them back.

3.  New cases of infection?  For Friday, it hit 4,516.  The trend line is upward in scale.

4.  Where infection rates are the greatest?  Large metropolitan cities.  Rural regions are showing no real serious gains on the infection rate.

5.  Curfew now set in Berlin....11 PM, you have shops, cafes, bars, etc.....closed.  

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