Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Ban-Rule Story

I sat and watched a N-24 news piece this morning. 

There's a German foundation (Bertelsmann Foundation) that went out and polled Germans on their gut-feeling about Covid-19 ban-rules. So what they came to find out....around 33-percent of all Germans just aren't thrilled over the ban-rules, and work or play....against the ban rules at times. It's not really a shock to me. 

I think if they broke this up into age groups...probably 99-percent of Germans over the age of fifty are mostly compliant with the ban-rules. If you were a German under the age of 25? I'd take a guess that 50-percent violate the ban-rules in some fashion, and the more urban your environment....the more likely you violate. 

I see police 'blotters' each week where such-and-such raid occurred at some bar or nightclub....'consumers' or customers in the backroom, or gambling taking place, or social-hour underway with twenty guys smoking in some shisha bar. Private parties still occur around Hamburg and Berlin. Organized parties still occur in wooded areas of Berlin each weekend, with gross violation of the ban rules as part of the landscape. 

Will anything happen with the authorities grasping this? No. They might feel like making more extra ban-rules, but the one-third group would just violate those....so why bother?

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