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.
Germany has fallen so far that it’s just time to move back to the US.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteAs 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.