I watched N-TV news (commercial news in Germany) this morning. So the topic of Covid and mental illness came up.
A fair number of Germans and maybe some journalists have talked about mental illness over the past two years and that this has built up into a national problem.
So the Health Minister (Lauterbach, SPD) stood up yesterday and said 'no'....statistically, they've looked at neighboring countries and Germany seems to be 'on average' with everyone else.
Will people believe his statement? I kinda doubt it.
There are three ways in which stress and impairment are coming up:
1. Prior to spring of 2020.....people had a social life (meaning they went to pubs weekly, disco-dancing, easily entered bowling alleys, went swimming without any rules, and could easily jump on a jet at 6 PM on a Friday and fly off to London for the weekend). All of these steps in a social life have been curtailed or limited.
2. If you are non-vax....there's no place in the public area presently to 'hang-out'....doesn't matter if you are 65 or 20.
3. People are actively getting around the rules and attending 'forbidden' parties (in the woods or in abandoned warehouses). If you get caught? You end up with a summons from the court and a hefty little fine which makes your life miserable.
Can this type of enforcement go on forever? No.....there's a limit to the stringent rules, and at some point.....the cooperation effort will lessen, and the police will become more negative about the added burden on their job.
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