This afternoon, if you gazed across the various German news groups....you tended to find this near the top....the RKI (Robert Koch Institute, the PhD folks who advise the government on Covid) put out a confidential paper that is making its way through the Bundestag.
The contents? Well....the RKI folks are now talking about the next shutdown/lockdown for Covid.
The paper is referred to as a 'alarm paper'....shocking a fair number of politicians, and no one is really discussing the contents of the paper.....other than saying the paper does exist.
Right now, the only thing that the government is admitting....in or around the first of the month....full-scale testing will take place at airports and entry-points to Germany.
The assurance that herd immunity would change things? I suspect some politicians are grasping now....it might not matter if you got the immunization.
If Germany were to re-engage on another lockdown? It'd probably be taken in a frustrating way, with some Germans having marginal patience left.
If Christmas markets failed to materialize in early December or shopping was halted again around 17 December? It'd be a mistake to assume the public would readily accept the deal as easily as they did last year.
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