1. If you get amongst working-class Germans....they will mostly all admit that they've had their fill of Covid regulations/mandates. All of them now have questions that they'd like for the government to answer.
2. Is this really on the 20th of March....the 'end'? I would speculate that masks linger around for all of 2022, and that when the virus swings upward in November....some idiots in the health world will want to bring mandates/shutdowns back.
3. Are people going to make trip planning now? If you go around and bring up the topic (especially among vacation-shops)....there's more activity in 2022, than in 2021. I won't predict we return to 2019 numbers, but I think most all Germans will take some kind of trip this year (RVs and camping will again be popular).
4. Pro-feelings over Minister of Health Lauterbach? Well....the news media has sharpen their questions, and he's getting a rough time. If I had to pick one minister who'd either leave or be fired in 2022......he's the person. I will point this out....it's the news media who hyped Luaterbach all of 2021...dumping on Spahn (the Health Minister at the time).
5. Will the Monday night marches (anti-Covid regulation crowd) end after 20 March? Just me saying it....but I think by the end of March.....there's no enthusiasm left if it's clear that the mandates ended.
6. Medical folks/rest-home personnel still under the immunization mandate? Yes. I would suggest that chaos and thrilling manpower shortages will occur in March, with no clear way of fixing the problems....except to admit the mandate needs to be cancelled. If I were in my 80s and in a rest-home presently here in Germany.....I'd probably be asking some questions.
7. An Omicron-variant likely to be announced any minute now? Absolutely. It's a absolute bet that something will be announced by the end of March.
8. Maxed out on immunizations? If you go by governmental stat's.....it's around 75-percent who are presently vaxed-up. Will this group all get a fresh vax on schedule....to continue the 75-percent number? Unknown.
9. Anything sure on the 'recovered' status business (3-6-9 months)? Depending on which government official you talk to.....you get a different answer. Right now, it looks like 9 months will be the set number (after you've had a Covid infection)
10. Government under a lot of pressure to run a normal Oktoberfest, and a normal Christmas season? Well....politicians don't want to discuss this until mid-summer, but I think there's intense pressure to just let the events happen with minimum rules/regulation. Would I go to the Oktoberfest, with the normal big crowds and hang out with a fair sum of drunk Germans....while Covid lingers? I'm not that sure about that.
11. Home office popular now? I don't know the numbers but I would suggest that the majority of Germans who've done it.....got used to it, and like it to some degree.
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