Saturday, September 23, 2023

Three Odd German Things

 1.  Around German society.....mobbing is 'pretty-hot' now as a discussion topic.  Basically, mobbing means you bully someone enough....that they quit or get fired.

So the topic has come up with the Interior Minister (Nancy Faeser, SPD) and how she showed the door to department head in the Interior Ministry.

At this point, I'd give it better than a 60-percent chance that she's gone by Christmas....over mobbing, and this will  trigger some political chaos in asking how she did this and stayed on for months as a minister.

2.  Is there some kind of colossal flu-scare going on in Germany?

Well....if you watch the health experts on TV....they seem to suggest some massive flu coming (shortly).  

The general issue?  That Covid business has transformed the public into being somewhat skeptical of health experts.  

What the general flu shot rate goes at?  Year by year....maybe 20-to-25 percent.  Even with a scare-campaign....I doubt if it'll go higher than that.

3.  Group brawls seem to happen more often in Germany.

I noticed from last night (Friday, around 1 AM), in the Solingen, Germany....at some local gas station.....some argument started up and the clerk called the cops.  At the peak....20 guys were brawling there at the station.  As cops arrived....everyone took off.  Topic to trigger the brawl?  Unknown.

Cops arriving....found one single guy on the ground, and he was taken to a hospital.

You can review German news every Monday and find multi-person brawls pretty common now....unlike the 1980s.  

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