I had to go to a city-run operation (Wiesbaden) this morning, and like a number of things that have occurred since spring of 2020.....there's a door-guard there....to ensure I meet the Covid rules of the day.
You don't just walk in.....nor do you show up without an appointment, unless this is a grocery or coffee shop.
You can laugh about the 'guard' business, but it's standard policy now.
So here's the thing....in 99-percent of all cases....it's a Turkish or Middle-Eastern guy (Iraq, Syria, etc) that has on a guard-like shirt or some jacket that says 'security'. It's like a union thing.....it can only be a non-German.
Maybe in two-percent of cases....it's a Turkish female, but in the other 98-percent....it's a male from that region.
The guy today? He had to see my visa-card as part of the 'show' for the vaccination pass, and it's labeling me American, so he flipped over language-wise, and wanted to impress me with his English (it wasn't that bad).
How many work around the city? I would imagine around 300 guys now serve as security/door-guards. For two months back in 2020.....to get into my local grocery, there was a guard there just to ensure not more than 50 folks were in the store at one time.
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Germany has fallen so far that it’s just time to move back to the US.
I would argue that it's become more 'entertaining'. At some point last summer, I noticed five or six teenies who were wearing 'security' type clothing, and it's apparently become some kind of fashion statement to wear t-shirts, hats or jackets with 'security' written on them. It wouldn't shock me to step off a bus and see 500 Germans walking around with 'security' hats/t-shirts on.
As for the door-guard syndrome...around all of Germany, it's probably at least 100,000 guys/gals working this angle. You can't have a local mini-fest these days, without employing at least twenty of these folks. There was some ice-rink in operation around Christmas time, which was set up as a controlled zone, and even they had door-guards protecting the zone.
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