For about three weeks, the German national government folks have been sitting around and discussing how a national set of Covid-ban-rules should exist, instead of allowing the individual sixteen states to manage their own affairs.
They claim (at least via the CDU-CSU-SPD coalition) that they are near the end. The chief sticking point?
Night-time curfew, if your local rate of infection is '100-or-more'. The CDU-CSU folks want a pretty harsh understanding of curfew (from 9 PM to 5 AM). The SPD? They say that people should have the right to "go for a walk with your partner in the evening or to do sports outside." All after 9 PM of course.
Does any of this matter? Right now, with pubs, bars and dance-halls shutdown.....even if you are outside after 9 PM, other than walking to get the stress out of you.....or to lessen frustrations because of crappy Covid.....it doesn't matter.
If the bars were open? Well....it'd be different.
Are people obeying the curfew rules now....where cities or states have pushed them? The police will tell you that they hand out 'tickets' nightly, and that the bulk of society is obeying the ban-rule.
In roughly six weeks, it'll be daylight till 10 PM, and any enforcement of the curfew business will be a joke at that point. Making the point that this curfew stuff had an affect? You can't show data or science to that suggestion.
Even making the suggestion that closing the bars back in November had an effect? All you did was shift people to the idea of buying more beer or booze at the supermarket, and then slipping out some backdoor....to drink with five or six of your friends in the woods, or along some riverbank.
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