The Five Most Stupid Things I've Seen In Germany Over Covid

 1.  The regional grocery, about six months into Covid....made up a rule that only x-number of people could enter the store, and hired some Iraqi body-guard guy to hand-count/limit folks entering the grocery.  This policy carried on for about two months.  None of the other 40-odd grocery stores in the region had such a gimmick.  The jacket that the guy wore?  Had 'security' over the front and back.  Ended up being like a grocery-bouncer...

2.  Another regional grocery made up a rule....about 8 months into Covid.....even if you came as a couple and had one cart....that was not acceptable to enter the store.  You each had to have a cart.  For about two months, if I went with the wife shopping....I had to lug around another cart in the store.  Must have been forty extra carts used for this gimmick.

3.  I sat in my car at the grocery parking lot.....to observe some German lady who'd exited the store with her cart of twenty-odd items.  At the car hatch area.....she washed her hands down with a solution.....then put on gloves.....then sprayed each item in the cart with a solution....wiping it with a paper towel before putting it into the car.  I was close enough to the car....to smell a vinegar-like smell.

4.  About two months into the Covid business....my local mechanic's shop had a deal.  They had a sanitizer solution that they'd spray your car interior with....to kill Covid 'bugs'.  Cost?  In the 29 Euro range.  I asked my mechanic about this....he just laughed.  It was basically a mild Lysol-like solution.  Does anyone have this service?  He responded.....99-percent are women over sixty, and mostly worried about neighbor friends who ride in the car.  He said it was bogus, but since it only cost around 50 cents for the solution.....it was a 28 Euro profit and he figured they did a minimum of five a day.  Within seven months, they halted the solution-spray deal.  

5.  I knew of a German woman who got Covid (in her late 20s), and got bad-off dehydrated....to the extent that some neighbor called the ambulance and they carried her off to the regional hospital.  They (the hospital) more or less refused to give her a room since this wasn't really a Covid issue.....it was dehydration.  They set up a drip for 12 hours, then got an ambulance to tote her home.  The 12 hours?   Mostly spent in a hallway....not a room.