I sat last night and watched the late news on public TV in Germany. So here comes on this segment where a city had hired up these hygiene 'inspectors'.
'Marvin', 'Fred', 'Ernie', and 'Johan' were in dark blue/black jackets, with some type of badge/ID and walking the fruit/vegetable market-place of this German town. Later, they went to the shopping district, and eye-balled consumers in stores....alerting the store bosses that they were near to the max on people with the assigned limits of the store.
Most shops....especially if you are talking two-hundred square meters or less....have a sign on the door and it says X-number of consumers allowed in the store at one time.
Hired-up inspectors? More or less. I don't think the police really want to carry out this job, and they've got more important work to do anyway.
I would imagine cities like Frankfurt or Hamburg could easily hire five to ten people like this, and just let them be the enforcers of the Covid-19 inspection business. It'd be a contractor-like situation, and in 12 months.....you'd cancel the contract and release the inspectors.
Germans accepting this type of peer-pressure or intimidation? Well...the bulk will, and some small group will be openly hostile or anti-inspector. Me personally? I'd just look at this as another reason not to shop downtown, and purchase only via the internet.
Again, it's a case where you look back a year ago, and stand there amazed at the amount of control or ban-rules in place....just shaking your head.
Last year, I probably made sixty trips via the railway/Bahn system.....this year, I've made two trips since March.
I used to spend three to five trips every month walking the shopping districts of Wiesbaden or Mainz....sipping coffee or having a apple-wine. Since March....I've made three of such trips. The local grocery two minutes walking from my house? They had two tables, and decent coffee.....well, the tables are closed off, and I haven't had a coffee there since May.
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