1. From last night, covering the previous 24 hours......519 deaths due to Covid-19 were reported (second highest 24 hour rate of the year). The 24 hour new infection rate was 18,233.
Locally, in my town of Wiesbaden, the 70th death since day one was reported....(population of 283k). New infections for the past 24 hours? 54.
2. A lot of speculation has been churned out over the anti-Covid-ban-rule crowd (given the name of "lateral thinkers movement".
A study was done.....published in details by Focus....but original source was the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.
A lot of speculation has brewed over this make-up of the anti-ban group....calling them right-wing or AfD members.
What the study found? 17 percent voted for the Linke Party in the last election. 21 percent voted for the Greens. 14 percent voted for the AfD Party.
Yes, it's a bit 'crazy' because it really doesn't match the expectations of the public news crowd.
But there are bits which suggest crazy stuff as well. This is mostly an older group (average age in mid-40s). One-third of the group is actually people with a university degree background. They also noted in this study that a pretty high number of the crowd are self-employed (the ones hurt the most in the shut-down phase).
So the news image of the past three months of the anti-ban-rule crowd....fairly screwed up? If you take this survey and sit down over what they suggest...it ought to worry some folks.
You've actually got some far-right and far-left folks who agree on one general topic...the ban rules are a serious problem to the general public. Normally, these two groups would never mix or converse on things.
Now, you have to wonder about one certain element of this survey. The guys doing this....had to go and show up at a anti-ban-rules protest, and walk around....asking people five or six significant questions. Did they do this at just one single protest (like Leipzig)? Or did they go to three or four protests to build the database?
Why I bring up Leipzig? It's one of those weird places where you have a super-large charged-up atmosphere. There were a fair number of people who voted in the city election back in the spring of 2019....for the Linke Party, Greens and AfD. If they had done the survey in Frankfurt or some other western city, the survey results would have probably greatly different.
Why does any of this matter? The anti-Covid-ban-rules crowd apparently aren't going away, and there's elections coming up in roughly 100 days in two German states. Normally, you'd laugh over such a movement making a difference in voting patterns...this time, I'm not sure of much. A fair number of Germans are stressed-out and generally frustrated over their financial stability. They might go and vote in a radical way.
3. N-TV did a great news piece talking about ski operations and the likely closure situation. A tremendous amount of money will be lost by the ski 'industry' because of Covid-19.
"Double-digit billions" is uttered in Austria over their ski losses.
4. The vaccination start-up schedule now? Well....it won't be in 2020. Various news sources are suggesting it to be delivered around the first week of January.
5. If you were going to pay for the vaccination? The vaccine itself, depending on which company you are dealing with....would be priced from 2.50 Euro up to 15.50 Euro (per DOSE). If this were via a pharmacy or pay-as-you go situation...the clinic would probably charge another ten to twenty Euro as they processed you.
Note, the first shot is usually accompanied with a second shot around two weeks later.
Presently, at least through 2021....the German government is paying entirely for the vaccination. There probably is a cost factor when local clinics start getting their batch in the spring.
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