Behind closed doors, there's apparent 'chatter' going on in Germany about banning fireworks on 31 December.
For those who weren't aware....Germans get big into celebrating the end of each year, and there is a authorized period where fireworks can be sold....typically the last four work-days of each year. The allowance here is that you fire them off on the night of the 31st. Use of fireworks for the other 364 days a year? Personal fireworks? Zero. If you are a city operation and some celebration is underway....then you can hire out a company to do a commercial fireworks operation.
Would this be a federal or state situation? Well....most people believe that this would be a state-by-state decision...NOT a federal decision.
The odds of all sixteen states agreeing on this ban of fireworks? No one can say for sure.
Why this angle of the ban? What they say is that groups would gather in public places....and Covid would easily get passed around.
Could German cities on their own make this decision? Yes....the general rules of each state would allow that type of ban to occur.
Is this creating a problem in the commerce arena? Well....fireworks are being shipped in as we speak (from China). So it's a tremendous loss of income or profit, if this ban rule is made up at the last minute.
If eight states ban fireworks and eight permit it? You'd basically see people from the banned states up and cross borders.....to buy the fireworks in a fireworks-friendly state. Firing them off in their banned cities? Absolutely, and inviting massive police action to halt/prevent this type of business from occurring.
All of this leading to a pretty dismal evening on 31 December 2020? With bars, cafes and restaurants shutdown? You are looking at a comical evening where you aren't supposed to sip booze or beer with anyone on a public street, and you can't socialize in any normal fashion. The police will be dragged into literally hundreds of thousands of confrontations for that evening, and it'll be discussed for decades.
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