Well....you can't compare it.
It's just shocking the world of difference as you look around.
Nightly on the news presently? In November 2021, it would have been two to four minutes of news chatter at the 8 PM national news on public TV....nightly. Now? In a 7-day week, there might be two brief 30-second mentions of Covid....that's it.
Last year at this time.....you could only wander into a bar or restaurant if you were 2G (meaning vaxed-up or you had Covid in recent weeks). At the time, just about every pub or food situation were marginally running, with half the manpower cut. Now? No regulations....full customer base visiting, and a national shortage of staff personnel and cooks..
The 7-day infection rate in November 2021? It was talked about almost daily and in some national crisis mode. Currently? It's in the 400-range and not of any crisis value.
People still going to the hospital with bad cases? Oh yeah....that part hasn't changed.
Deaths? I looked at the national numbers for Friday.....216 reported dead from Covid in that previous 24 hour period. Since day one? In the 155,000 range.
Last night, I watched a live German TV show....where one of the moderators was out last week from Covid. He was all vaxed-up (with the booster) and this was his third Covid illness episode since 2020. They avoided any discussion over it.....but it's obvious that the vax-up business marginally affects your odds.
So the big difference? I think the German political folks woke up and realized a massive tidal wave of bankruptcy was about to occur at the end of 2022. Then they said we have to relate this to a new reality, and just get on with life.
The end of the threat? Well....no. I stood in some grocery line recently and some gal started a big coughing fit. You could tell....it was freaking folks out over the worry of it being Covid. I've seen a couple of cases like this on the bus trips as well.
Flu now openly discussed as a bigger worry? I noticed the public news folks hyping it up on Friday evening's episode. They almost made it a bigger threat....than Covid.
Any of this comparison business being noted by journalists? No. It's just odd....a world of difference, and virtually no one talking about how 365 days changed matters.
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Not sure about your location but here the leaves were off the walnut tree before the start of Nov 21 and it was freaking cold. Here in mid-nov 22, 40% of the leaves remain on the branches and I haven't needed a winter jacket yet..
I have this cherry tree in the backyard. Typically, by the end of October....90-percent of the leaves would be gone. This year....90-percent of the leaves are still there (and greenish). Drought period? In this valley area by Frankfurt...intensely dry for 100 days (worst I've seen in this region). Then it rained 150-percent of what you'd expect in September. Weather-wise, just odd. But I can think of three or four years since 1978...in central Germany, where weird summer or winter weather would occur (6 years ago...funnel cloud/tornado type...came within 2 km of the area for about 30 seconds).
Yeah, on winter jacket use...1 single day so far. Even today, I could wear shorts and a t-shirt.
Perhaps all helping to lessen Covid in some weird way.
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