Last night....off ARD (public TV in Germany, Channel One).....they ran a special live version of Hart Aber Fair (Hard But Fair).....a two-hour deal with no commercials. One moderator and five 'talkers', with two-dozen-odd discussion topics.
The real focus? The physiological side of the Coronavirus. One example....they had a guy (mid-50s, with his mid-20s daughter).....and the wife is dying of cancer (maybe a month or two left to go, and she's in an isolation ward of the hospital. It's obvious that the husband and daughter can't visit her and there's a lot of human emotion tied into this whole thing.
There were various discussions carried on, and it's more than obvious that some people are reaching a serious breaking point. Finances don't make sense.....short-work payments by the government only pay around two-thirds of a normal check. Most people had the ability to sustain two or three months of this.....with nothing much after that point.
Those on welfare? Really at the deep end of the mess.
Watching that last night, I would question how you could go on with another four to eight weeks of 'home-arrest'.
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