Magnus Claw wrote a piece for Welt this morning and he talked over Covid. There's a lot of anticipation in March that virtually all regulations/mandates will dissolve away. The one that probably won't? The mask.
The quote from Claw:
"Are we threatened with a permanent mask requirement? Every second German wants to continue wearing a mask after the end of the pandemic. Politicians are also sticking to the requirement to wear masks. An irritating parallel to the Islamic veil suggests itself."
He has a point, but even if the mask mandate went away....I'd suspect that more than 75-percent of Germans would continue to wear a mask indoors, on buses and trains, and even ten-percent of school-kids might stick to the mask.
Me? On buses and trains....I'd probably stick to the mask. At stores? It might take a week to get used to a no-mask theme, but I'd get used to it.
What's really left after the 20 March point? No one has said for sure yet. Some believe the mask will absolutely be around, and some suggest that testing in schools/colleges will still occur. Immunization of all medical/rest-home personnel? That's still mandated and won't go away.
If you asked if all the mechanism would be ready to go up in October when Covid returns in high numbers.....to bring back lock-downs or curfews? It's a pretty sure bet.
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