1. Covid masks for school kids....which was mandated....closes out on 7 March (at least in Hessen). Starting next Tuesday, meetings which had been limited to 10 people because of Covid.....are now unlimited (at least in Hessen). Starting on the 4th of March.....if you are non-vax/non-recovered, you can now walk into a pub/restaurant with just a negative test-slip and be served.
2. Another hurricane system will enter Germany by tonight (Tuesday)....would make the fourth of the past seven days. On the unusual scale....this would be rated as a '10'. It's not unusual to have three or four in an entire year.
3. It's a bit shocking on the number of 'Putin-experts' who have arrived on ARD/ZDF (public TV) for the news and public forums. The 'Covid-experts' are sadden by this change in priorities.
4. There is an interview piece on WELT by a religious sect mental expert....Michael Utsch....where he starts to compare these hyped-up environmental kids associated with the group 'Last Generation' as being in a cult-like state of mind.
I will say this....from interview chatter and positions taken by these German teenagers....it does remind one of the various doomsday cult groups. They generally believe in apocalypticism and millenarianism. I'll add this as well....both the doomsday cults and 'Last Generation' kids....often predict disaster/end of days.
Both seek to inspire people to take actions, before the 'end'. I have no idea what kind of rehab you'd have to send kids like this....off to.
5. Changes coming to the public TV channel Tagesschau24?
Well....this is a public TV network, which was created in late 1990s, and designed to be a all-in-one information network (documentaries, news, public forums, etc).
Around 2012, it went through a renovation and did more live news/talk forums.
This week, the management announced they were going to the next renovation....a full-fledged news network...although it's not going to be a 24-hour thing (like CNN).
Do Germans even watch Tagesschau24? Well....that's another thing. If you went into a pub and asked 10 Germans about it....the majority would admit they've never watched a single hour of the public channel.
Germans being that concerned with news around the clock? Germans just don't get into this mindset like you see in the US. They'd like a simple packaged 15 to 30 minute news piece....which has to include sports and weather. They don't want long complicated interviews with intellectuals that seem to go nowhere but in circles.
So after this renovation....will there be that many Germans watching this network? Frankly, you already have N-24 and N-TV existing for 16-hour a day news cycles, but both are commercial. I think the public TV folks are concerned that viewers are moving away from them, and they have to act.
Cost factor? Well....it's just curious what this will amount to and if this plays into the next TV-Media tax increase.
(Advice: if some fast-reacting story occurs of great interest, my advice is to turn N-TV or N-24 on, and they give a pretty decent coverage)
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