1. Focus brought up this discussed item today.....Omikron worries the authorities so much.....that basic services (even fire and police) will be challenged as the 'wave' hits.
So they've discussed the incubation period...it's a good bit less than regular Covid....they assess it at 3 days. The general idea discussed is that you'd cut the quarantine time (regularly assessed at 14 days).
Practical? No one says much and everybody will have a different reaction to Omikron.
2. Around 5,000 Germans held a protest-march in Munich last night. While majority were peaceful....a handful went into aggressive behavior (around a dozen arrested).
As lockdown occurs....it's likely that the protest situation will expand out.
3. I noticed in Spanish news that they went to a must-wear-mask routine for urbanized outdoor situations. If you are in an outdoor market or shopping district area.....the mask now must be worn.
4. For a number of weeks, there's been this political discussion going on of a open-database (names, addresses, vax-status) to be created in Germany. Presently, no such database exist.
I noticed this morning that the key German for data protection/privacy (Kelber).....has spoken up to this topic and asks the question....is this really necessary? He's asking this because of potential misuse/abuse.
It's difficult to predict how this will evolve or be settled. States might make the case that only they can handle this and it must be a state-operated situation, without federal or police interference.
General German reaction? Well....if you go back 15 years ago, when Google started to have imagery to show people's backyards/property.....that got a lot of anti-data collection people pepped-up. Germans get hyped about Facebook privacy (lack there of), and just having street cameras around in public places is a mild issue discussed.
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