Last night, German public TV (ARD, Channel One) ran one of it's more-noted public forums....'Hart Aber Fair' (Hard But Fair).....around 9 PM. Topic? Public feelings in the middle of the crisis of Covid-19. It came to an interesting group assembled (always the positive of this show).
The group? A hairdresser, journalist, a mental health doctor, a virus-doctor, and a politician.
Lot of points thrown out there, but at the end....the one key point was....'there is no light at the end of this tunnel'. In simple terms....the tunnel just continues on, and on, and on.
Wednesday will be the start of the second year. On the positive side....maybe by September, everyone who wanted the vaccination (probably in the 80-to-90 percent range) will have gotten it. Will the crisis just end at that point? No one that I've seen in the past couple of months really suggests that. If they do share a positive position, it's that the death rate will spiral downward (no one uses numbers but you get the impression that deaths ought to be a lot less).
The people who walked around the vaccination option? The infection rate and death rate will probably continue 'as is'. Eventually in 2023, I expect a quarter of the German population to be fairly frustrated with these non-vaccination types, and question sick-leave and significant life requirements for them.
Maybe by some point in 2023, you might actually go for a 24-hour period on German public TV without the word 'Covid-19' being mentioned. My humble guess is for the next 500-odd days....it'll still be uttered a minimum of twenty times daily off ARD daily news (from 5 PM to 10:45 PM). You will probably still see 10 'jabs' nightly of the vaccine shot into some guy's arm, and feel some form of nausea for 30 seconds after each 8-second segment.
The last thing you could take out of the chatter from the show? From a mental-health standpoint, all elements of happiness has been drained-out. From the viewpoint of kids....to the isolation that senior citizens feel.
It's a fairly barren landscape for optimism, and it not likely to improve over the next couple of months.
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