So this odd chat started up in Berlin today....the topic....can the German government forbid Germans in this Covid-period from going off on vacation for a week or two....to the Spanish isle of Mallorca?
New cases of Covid-19 on Mallorca....per 100,000? 29. Yeah....awful low.
Infection rate in Berlin....per 100k? Above 100.
Infection rate in Hamburg...per 100k? A week ago, they went above 100.
So you look at this legal effort underway and ask the question....if Germans are taking two weeks off and going somewhere with a lesser infection rate....what's wrong with this?
The general fear? They will get Covid-19 and return to Germany with it.
Constitutionally clear? No, and several legal folks have appeared on TV this afternoon to hint that this is a waste of time unless you change the Constitution.
The fact that the government is ordering German hotels to remain closed, yet allow these folks to travel off to Mallorca...to stay in Spanish hotels? Well, that's part of the 'comedy' as well.
I watched a piece over the weekend, and here were Germans who'd boarded a plane on Friday of last week (some in their 20s....some in their 60s), and they had zero fear or worry over the trip. They were walking the beach and chilling out.
The negative? They kinda admitted that most restaurants were only open to 'pick-up' there in Mallorca, and only the hotel bar was open for sipping beer or cocktails.
Just another mess for the Merkel team to clean up? Yeah, and that's the weekly comedy show that unfolds....trying to fix something which doesn't make a lot of sense.
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