With the new federal Covid-ban-rules now in place, where the federal government controls all the rules...NOT the states themselves, this new problem has arisen over curfew expectations.
Focus gave the better of details on this, and I'll try to describe it in simple detail.
If you are a highly urbanized area with a airport, and your virus incidence rate is over 100....then curfew is thrown into your local surroundings. You must be home by 10 PM.
Well....lets say that a month ago, you made reservations to leave out of Frankfurt's Airport at 10:12 PM, to fly to Bangkok, Thailand....when the rate in Frankfurt was at the 88-point. But today (the flight day), the city announced it's new rate of infection is 109....that means that the flight is now NOT possible because it occurs 12 minutes past 10 PM.
The same issue would occur if you were arriving from Bangkok....to Frankfurt....at 10: 12 PM....under curfew rules, this landing and your departure from the airport would not be possible.
Same deal with trains? Yes. If you were arriving from Stuttgart to Koln, and their rate of infection at Koln is over 100.....with your arrival at 10:30 PM, you'd be in violation of the rules.
A lot of people....a lot of railway and airport management folks.....are quietly grumbling over this situation. It makes travel of any type.....almost impossible to plan or execute.
The positive side of this? Almost all major airports in Germany....are in zones where the rate of infection will be 100 or more....so they are all shutdown by 10 PM.
The tide going against the federal oversight of curfews? I would suggest there's probably more negativity now, than at any point in the past six months. Added to the mess....the sets later and later each day. With each day, we advance to that point where sun doesn't even set until 9:50 PM (Hamburg, 1st week of July, for example). I can suggest getting public attention and obedience with curfew action will be nearly impossible at that stage.
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