Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Germans to Leave Wuhan?

Locally in Hessen, they say now that the plan is to fly out the 100-odd Germans who reside in Wuhan, and land in Frankfurt on Thursday.

Plan after that landing?  The Hessen authorities say that all of them will go to quarantine conditions (not saying where exactly), for up to 14 days.  Once pass that point, they leave the facility.

There is some hint in the wording that if any one person breaks out in a fever during this transport (figure it to be 12 hours if they don't stop anywhere), they will be isolated from the group on the plane, and taken to some special quarantine upon arrival in Frankfurt.  The German comedians will probably suggest there are quarantine-minus, and quarantine-plus somewhere in this logic.

The phrase which was curious (Health Minister from Federal Government, Spahn), was "watchful serenity".  He says that the Federal guys are watching over everything and you need not worry.

To be honest, this word for serenity (Gelassenheit), is not one that you tend to hear much around Germans.  You can take that to mean various things. 

I would imagine most Germans are shaking their heads and wondering what hasn't been laid out on the table.  But I should note.....in most all westernized countries....the death rate is extremely low.

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