Observations Over Covid Effect

 This morning, the wife had business in Mainz....so I tagged along.

One of my more favorite stores in Germany....Conrad....is shutting down it's Mainz storefront (still doing business via the internet).

Conrad was the nearest thing you'd have to a Radio-Shack in Germany.  For this shop, their downfall was the Covid-shutdown period, and they just never came back to the status they had prior to Covid-19.

But along the way, I ended up passing via the Bahnhof (railway station) around 9 AM.

There ought to be X-number of people passing through the place, and I'd suggest that it was more or less one-third (33-percent) of the normal people walking through the station.  

Even at the McDonalds there....where I stopped for coffee....virtually no one standing there to buy anything.  

I walked to the ramp area where the Wiesbaden train would be pulling in.  There ought to be around 75 people there to board at this time of the morning....but at best, there were 15 people to board.  Across the five ramps....same story....almost no one there in the waiting pattern for a train to roll in.

Walking out front of the Mainz station.....there's the tram and bus stands....where there ought to be 200 people at 9:30 AM waiting for their bus or tram to roll in.  At best....maybe fifty folks there.

It's the first time since March that I've been in Mainz, and it makes one wonder just how bad the financial numbers are for local mass transit and the national railway. 

The shops there in the station?  There's around twenty different shops, and passing through the station....it's safe to say there's nothing much happening customer-wise.  They are all suffering if this is the normal day to day operations landscape.