About every week....someone in Germany comes up with a new Covid-phrase, and you have to spend some time grasping what the intent was.
So a 'bridge-lockdown' (a CDU Party idea from Armin Laschet)....is where you lock down everyone (across all state lines in Germany), and you only open access when x-number of people have been vaccinated. This means schools and most stores....shutdown.
Getting to the magic number to stop 'bridge-lockdown'? This is what triggered a lot of criticism over the weekend as this topic was introduced.
The Green, FDP, and Linke Party position? Harsh criticism over the idea. The SPD folks (as the partner in the government)? Well...they weren't super-hyped-up or that negative.
The fact that the vaccination rate is marginally moving up each week? Well, that's part of the tough sales. You could be looking at the 'bridge-lockdown' deal, and just start to realize it might require six to eight weeks of pretty tough closures.
The fact that German comedians are probably going to come out this week with their own agendas (tunnel-lockdown, drink-till-you-drop-lockdown, triple-secret-lockdown, and Lady-GaGa-lockdown)?
To be honest, I don't think you need to be a rocket-scientist or PhD-virus-expert....to make up lockdown rules anymore. I think you could round up six 12-year old kids off the streets of Hamburg, and they'd do just as well as the current lockdown team.
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