The Wednesday meeting with the Chancellor and the sixteen state Premier-Presidents has started up.
Key comments here at the beginning? Well...one of the more quotes that you sit and ponder upon.
The Bavarian Premier-President (Soder, CSU)....stood up and said: "We mustn't lose any time. The death rate is currently as high as if a plane would crash every day (in Germany)".
Deaths reported for past 24 hours (up to 6 PM last night) over Covid-19? 377.
Back in 2018, for the entire year....954,874 Germans died (from all things). Roughly 50.5 percent were women, while 49.5 percent were men. Don't ask why the slight difference is. The population of Germany is around 83-million....so it's slightly more than one-percent a year.
Did Soder just throw a fair amount of dramatics or 'doom' into the middle of this?
For 2018, 3,275 Germans died in car accidents. 445 Germans died in bicycle accidents for 2018, just for reference. Somewhere around 9k Germans died in 2018 from suicide.
The news crowd know that Soder is one of the top two candidates for the CDU Chancellor 'game' in 2021....so virtually anything he says...is amplified. If bars or pubs were open....thousands of Germans would sit there and openly criticize Soder for being overly dramatic. Luckily for him...they are all shut-down due to Covid concerns.
In some way, Soder has a point, that across Germany....a 'planeload' of passengers die daily from Covid-19. But in terms of 2018....a small planeload of Germans died daily from suicide.
Perhaps it's just a public thing, and politicians are kinda like soccer or football coaches....they need the 'team' to be hyped-up and onboard with the strategy. In some ways, it's part of the game. But it's the fact that we've been 'coached' so much in 2020....that our acceptance of coaching has hit some maximum peak at this point.
Knowing our luck....by 10 PM tonight....a second politician will counter Soder's comment....saying that for an entire week, it's like a super-cruise-boat sinking with everyone lost.
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