1. How bad has heating costs increased in the past couple of months in Germany?
Just about everyone will tell you a minimum of 50-percent increase. I noted this morning....one guy got his estimated cost on natural gas, and the yearly bill is figured to have gone from the 1,800 Euro level.....to 3,200 Euro. All due to the Russian 'problem'? Mostly, yes.
2. Do Germans pay the most of any EU country for electricity?
As for Aug 2021, yes. It comes out to being near (on average) 39 US-cents per Kwh. Spain, for example, is around 24 US-cents per Kwh.
3. This bonus talked about for German nurses who've been at the frontline of helping Covid patients.....who is paying for it?
Well....it'd come out of tax-revenue, NOT your health insurance contributions.
4. This whole new 3rd terminal building at the Frankfurt Airport was mostly for RyanAir, who has announced in the last couple of weeks that it is pulling out of Frankfurt entirely?
Yeah. Around 3-billion Euro was the planned budget, with completion now figured around summer of 2025. As for RyanAir's decision? Look....air travel has basically dropped like a rock since Covid arrived, and discount airlines are suffering. If you asked me if the 3rd terminal building will be finished in 2025, and just be shut down for three or four years....waiting for business to occur? Yeah, I'm likely to agree with that assessment.
5. Any truth to the story that Berlin (the city) has a paper being passed around with a hundred street names that need to be dumped because of woke-problems (anti-Semitic)?
Well....the city 'senate' (really the city council)....has this list of street names. It's under discussion (you'd think that a hundred higher priority problems exist in the city). So, here's the thing....once you agree that those one-hundred have to go....what will the new names be, and how big of a debate will this draw in certain neighborhoods? Martin Luther Strasse on the list to be dumped? Yes.
My humble guess is that once this starts up....public attention will draw to another two-hundred-odd names, and demands that they go as well. You could wake up in 2025 in Berlin....with half the population all pumped-up about the crappy new name of their street, and intense discussions about the names of streets.
6. Are there any German grocery shortages going on?
My wife dragged me off to four grocery stores over the past week. Generally, I'd say 'no'. Some shelves are to the 50-percent point....but you don't see a fully empty shelf.
7. Are blood tests being demanded of German citizens over vaccine 'fraud'?
Well....it's a complicated matter. What I'll say is that in Bavaria, NRW, Hesse, and the Pfalz....cops have judge's orders to take suspected people to a clinic and have blood drawn, to confirm if they have antibodies in their system....to prove the vaccine card they have is legit/non-legit. You only get into the system like this....if an investigation gets to the level of a doctor/clinic is suspected of issues.
It is legal under the German law because of the fraud charges going on.
Some of this involving legit doctors who agreed to 'pretend' to inject into a guy, and just dumped it down the sink? Yeah, to some degree.
A lot of people in this investigation effort? Well...it differs state by state.
Legality of this? Look....in German law, there is this paragraph (81A) that says for various things (typically suspecting drug-use while driving or having assaulted someone on the street)....a judge can haul you to a clinic and draw blood. I don't think any of the original folks who dreamed up 81A....ever considered this scenario.
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