The Five-Step Plan?

 I sat last night and viewed the late news via public TV here in Germany.  The topic?  This new 'document' (really a plan) concerning the opening of things around the Covid-19 situation.

The 'plan'?  It's a five-step process type of paper (single sheet), which you'd probably suggest came out of some university class, and it lays out X happening, with various variables of 'if' and 'but' (like a computer programming effort).  

Complicated?  After hearing the whole thing explained in detail....I would make the observation that approximately forty-percent of Germans were left standing there....fairly confused and 'dazed'.  

Around the edges of this plan....you did get the direct impression that some mandatory quickie-test was going to occur at least once a week, and it'd be free of charge.  But then you might raise your hand to ask....why are you selling via super-markets and drug-stores....these twenty-pack test kits for 149 Euro?  If the test was free....why sell you a test-kit?

The general problem that one might perceive....a number of these ministers in the cabinet and various political layers of the federal government are full-fledged intellectuals.  In their mind, a computer programming scheme makes perfect sense....if A and B occur, with no ifs or buts, then only C can be the end-result.

While all of this was going on in the background....I noticed via another news piece on Covid....a particular German CEO (book dealer) stood up and made a pretty direct threat....saying that patience has basically run out, and he's up for a social media campaign to threaten all political parties, in all state elections, and up to the national election in the fall.  I don't think he was bluffing.  

Chaos in the making?  With the great weather of the past weekend....tons of Germans were out in public and the police were busy trying to educate them or 'push' them into lessening their presence.  We're lucky this weekend....it's pretty crappy and cold for the weather, and it's probably that way for the next ten days.  But spring is coming shortly, and these harsh ban rules just won't be effective in the minds of most people.