Monday, June 13, 2022

What I Think Over the Suggested Sunday Driving Ban in Germany?

 The discussion goes on....with a firm decision likely to be made shortly after the political folks return from their summer vacation (say mid-August).  

No one is clear on this.....it might be every other Sunday....it might be each Sunday....it might be the one Sunday a month.

The attempt in 1973 with the idea in West Germany?  Most will say that they obeyed it but it was for a marginal amount of time. In this case?  No one says much but social folks suggest it to be a four-month period. 

Here's the thing....we endeared through two years of marginalized commerce for Covid, and now....the suggestion is that no one will travel, eat-out, go bowling, or see movies....for a four-month period of Sundays?

Obedience-level?  With younger Germans?  Near 50-percent I expect to disobey the idea.

If this were one Sunday per month, for a year?  That might sell to some degree.  

But there is one odd difference between 2022 and 1973....in the old days....most all Germans did not work on Sundays.  Today?  I'd take a guess that 5-percent of society has a Sunday job (going well past the police, fire department and airport operations).  

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