I live in the area of Wiesbaden (central Germany)....293k residents.
Local news folks (at Wiesbadenaktuell) did a very good job of reporting daily numbers and statistics. I follow them daily.
If you looked at their numbers and trends....around March/April....a bump up on the weekly death count, and then a long marginal period for July/August, and the death count started a upward trend in September.
Surge for October/November? Big-time locally.
As of last night, we now stand at 88 folks dead from the 293k. The vast majority? Being over the age of 70, and coming in the past ninety days.
The total infected since day one for the city? 5,985 total people from the city. 5,088 folks are considered 'recovered' at this point. ICU beds occupied right now? 78, with 15 of them on ventilation. They aren't maxed out yet but the number of free beds sits at 24.
A lot of people would look at the population of the city and comment that this is a fairly low number (if you were using NY City as a base-number).
On the other side of this discussion....it's a great deal being done (emphasized), to keep people focused on masks, social distancing and avoiding potential issues. Bars and pubs have been shut down now for five weeks. The curfew is in effect. Socializing is at a all-time low. Tourism for the past couple of months has been non-existent.
It is having a mental affect on the general society, and long-term....this creates even more problems.
It is....what it is.
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