Somewhere in the midst of a drive today, my German wife made the observation "it feels like a war" with all the Coronavirus chatter and sparse goods in grocery stores (really just toilet paper, canned goods, and hand sanitize). I almost pulled over and was going to tell her off, but stopped myself and figured half of the German nation is going to the far extreme of thinking it's awful right now.
It's just that a lot of things are not functioning in the way that you'd think. The recycling centers? All closed....maybe until the end of April....maybe longer. Any business with the German authorities? Forget about it. Need a new license? No way. Had a party planned for your partner at the nearby cafe? It won't happen for the next four weeks.
Buses are running but mostly empty.
Everyday....more chat via the public TV stations, and experts to appear to lay out the 'truth'. Questions remain, and no one knows when the mess will go into a recovery stage.
I eventually responded to my wife and suggested that we still have it way better than when folks existed in old East Germany under the Communist rule, and that there are over 300 cartons of beer at the grocery.....yet to be bought, and tons of junk-food, chips and salsa. Pepsi is not about to run out, and cat food seems to be no issue.
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