2G and a Covid Party

 For the benefit of non-Germans....to explain 2G standards....the German Health Ministry came up around four months ago and invented the 3G standard.

If you were going inside a pub, bar, cafe, restaurant, etc....3G meant that you were showing your vaccination status, recovered from Covid, or tested in the past 24 hours for Covid.  

For the owners of these enterprises....it made sense.  They just wanted something to get people back into their operation, and a return to 'normal'.  You could have invented 4G and said the 4th standard was a tattoo of a nude German gal on your arm would suffice, and the business community would have said fine.

Shortly after 3G got 'invented'.....2G  came along (meaning vaccinated or recovered from Covid).....so the test was being 'lessened' in some way.  

A lot of the vaccinated people got peeved about 2G because they weren't going to get access to clubs, bars, theaters, and eating establishments.

So I tell all of this....because this news story popped up over in Berlin, at a techno-club....which was enforcing the 2G  standard (no tests).  Focus reports the basic facts.

The club in question decide to reopen around two weeks ago and establish itself as a 2G situation.  Results after opening up?  Nineteen people so far....from evening number one....infected with Covid.

The nifty thing about this effort....because of all the automation involved these days to enter facilities like this....they have entry/exit data (your name, address).  So the district health authority is busy contacting 2,500-odd people.  Odds of more folks infected?  Well....you can only speculate about that.

Would testing folks at the door, or in the past hours before entry had prevented this?  You can only speculate about this.

The hygiene side of this?  Well....it's stupid but one thing about techno parties.....you burn a tremendous amount of calories, and sweat alot.  So imagine 2,500 folks in some warehouse situation.....sweat and moisture everywhere, and it's a festive occasion for virus 'bugs' to get passed around.  All you needed was one single guy.