Yesterday, with legal challenges going on in the court system, judges asking where the science to this idea was.....the Covid-19 'gimmick' of limiting people in 'hot-zones' to a 15-km circle from their house....got dumped. Well...dumped in terms of Hessen (other states still continue the gimmick).
HR did a short take on this.
Some of the ban rules that were taken up over the past year....have made sense. About a week after this first came up....I sat and reviewed. This one had zero science attached to it. Police generally would shake their head over the questions required to determine your distance, or if you'd violated the rule.
Why only 15 km? Why not 13 or 17?
I would imagine that this discussion started up fall of 2020, in some state governmental group. They probably discussed at length that controlling the travel-pattern of people was key to limiting contacts.
You can imagine having a chat with your 16-year old daughter over this, and asking her if she understands the limit. She just grins. She has no real concept of distance.....other than to reach her apprentice job 26 km away....she has to take a 5-km bus trip to the local railway station, ride a 17-km train situation, and then a 4-km bus ride to the apprentice job that she has. Somewhere in this ride, she crosses out of her local 'hot-zone', into a completely safe zone, and then the last couple of kilometers enters a separate new 'hot-zone'. The rule, to her, makes no sense.
Thirty years from now....historians will sit and go over the Covid-19 era in Germany, and this 15-km ban rule will pop up. They will probably laugh over the rule and spend months researching where it started from.
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