Well....there is this environment that German politicians and journalist live in (call it a 'umbrella') where they simply don't want unnecessary criticism to start up by Germans who 'don't know nothing'.
Social media....via Facebook and Twitter....allows for people to comment in a forum, and discuss actions of a national or state level....suggesting either incompetence by politicians or false narratives by journalists.
In the old days....'Henrick' and 'Huns' were only able to convey their frustration at the pub, and among a group of a dozen like-minded Germans. Now? 'Henrick' and 'Huns' have accounts on Twitter and can convey their thoughts to 3k people in an hour, and perhaps 100k over a 24-hour period.
From 2014 to now, various criticisms could be counter-produced against the right-wing 'nuts' by the public news sector, and via speeches carried by the national news. The problem with this production cycle....people began to see through the continual productions and began to counter-the-counter chatter.
Covid-19 ban rules? That simply got into the middle of things, and the downward economic turn ensured that the public frustration went to a maximum level. If you work at BMW, Audi, Lufthansa or Continental....you now openly worry about the downward turn, and distrust politicians to a great extent.
As some German pointed out in social media chatter this morning....the German leadership environment is made of fine men and women, who seem to hire various 'experts'....who produce nothing clever or of any value. They surround themselves in this situation, grinning for photos, and seeming to promise a menu of successes in the near-future. No one really believes the 'gimmicks' anymore.
Another German on social media pointed out on the anti-Trump chatter via public TV....that of the 27k Germans who are currently infected and roughing out Covid-19....roughly 300 are in a hospital environment, and the rest are sitting comfortably at home. This German kinda questioned the intent to make a 5-star story out of Trump's virus situation, while 99-percent of Germans are doing plain old quarantine home rest (meaning it's not that bad).
Where all of this is leading? Well....into a German election year (2021), with discontent about the primary parties, and their potential candidates. If you were a German looking for inspiration and a serious replacement for the Merkel era....no one much is exciting you and that thought ought to worry the German news media a good bit.
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