What? We Could Have Been Worrying About This Weeks Ago!

December 29, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypochondria, Hysteria Tags: Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, Hysteria, Mutation, Pandemic, Panic, Vaccinations Leave a comment

The Panic Police are simply not what they used to be, folks. There’s just too much to panic about these days, I guess.

The new coronavirus variant discovered in Britain seems to have been present in Germany since November as doctors detected it retrospectively in samples of an older patient who later died, Die Welt daily reported on Monday.

Specialists at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) were able to determine the virus variant B1.1.7 in samples of the patient who had medical preconditions, the newspaper said, citing the regional ministry of health in the state of Lower Saxony.

Corona-Mutation schon seit November in Deutschland.

Syringeworthy

December 28, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Helplessness, Hideology, High Art, Home Cooking, Humor, Hysteria Tags: Airplanes, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, Pandemic, Vaccine 1 Comment

Stunning and brave or something.

German pilot Samy Kramer has traced a giant syringe in the sky, flying 200 kilometers to remind people about the start of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Europe.

“There are still relatively many people opposing the vaccination and my action may be a reminder for them to think about the topic, to get things moving.”

As Long As The Other Third Goes First

December 26, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: Control, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Fake News, German, Germans, Germany, Media, Polls, Surveys, Vaccination, Vaccines 1 Comment

More accurate polling results just in!

Coronavirus: Two-thirds of Germans willing to receive COVID vaccine – A poll has shown a large majority of people in Germany want to receive the vaccine which is due for rollout on December 27. Nevertheless, more than half of the survey’s participants were concerned about side effects.

Yeah, right. Nice try, though. Try less than one in five willing to receive the vaccination and more than 80 percent concerned about side effects instead.

More than half of the respondents — 57% — said they were concerned about the potential side effects of being inoculated.

Give Me Your 30,000 Jobs Or I Crush You!

December 23, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hi-tech, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hysteria Tags: Bureaucracy, Captain Kirk, Courts, Employment, Environmentalists, German, Germans, Germany, Gorn, Greens, Lizards, Star Trek, Tesla, Trees Leave a comment

Tesla’s German gigafactory held up by sand lizard – Court halts work cutting down trees because of conservation fears for the protected species.

This is how Germany works, folks. Or doesn’t work. Take your pick it’s both.

Some commentators have warned that the court decision to stop the forest clearance was a bad omen. Marcel Fratzscher, head of the DIW, a think-tank, said it highlighted the “heavy bureaucratic burden and high regulatory uncertainty, which make it costly and time-consuming for companies to realise investment projects” in Germany.

“German law is too often held hostage by vested interests so that Germany is at risk of becoming less attractive as a location for businesses,” he said.

“Like most Humans,” said Captain Kirk. “I seem to have an instinctive revulsion to reptiles. I must fight to remember that this is an intelligent, highly advanced individual, the captain of a starship like myself.”

I’ll Be Home For Christmas

December 21, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: German, Germans, Germany, ISIS, Islamist Terror, Islamists, Slaves, Terror, Terrorists, Women Leave a comment

How heartwarming or something.

Germany brings home ‘Islamic State’ brides, children from Syrian camps – Humanitarian reasons have been cited for flying home several ‘IS’ brides and children from internment in Syria. At the height of the civil war, the women allegedly traveled to join the Islamist militia…

Leonora went to Raqqa, then a IS stronghold, and became the third wife of Martin L., a German in IS’ notorious intelligence network. For a time she held a Yazidi woman and two children as slaves in her apartment until selling them.

All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go

December 20, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Hi-tech, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypochondria, Hysteria Tags: Bureaucracy, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, EU, Hamburg, Vaccination Center, Vaccinations Leave a comment

“Only the green light from the European Union is needed for Germany’s largest single vaccination site to spring into action.”

With a stress on spring. As in maybe by next Spring.

Germany’s largest Covid jab site ready for business – Spaces to queue up are already marked out on the way to the 64 miniature doctors’ offices where thousands of people per day will be vaccinated against Covid-19 in Hamburg.

Only the green light from the European Union is needed for Germany’s largest single vaccination site to spring into action, the brand-new equipment sitting ready in the vast congress centre of the northern port city.

German Of The Day: Stadtschloss

December 17, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Helplessness, Higher Education, History, Home Cooking Tags: Berlin, Berliner Stadtschloss, German, Germans, Germany, Humboldt Forum, Language, Museums, Prussia Leave a comment

That means “the city palace,” and in this case it’s referring the reconstructed Prussian palace that opened in Berlin yesterday.

And virtually no one came to the grand opening. That’s because it took place virtually, which is how virtually everything is taking place these days.

A reconstructed Prussian palace will open in Berlin on Wednesday as a museum complex housing colonial artifacts, just as debate is gathering pace around the return of treasures plundered from abroad.

The opening ceremony for the Humboldt Forum, which will house attractions including the Ethnological Museum of Berlin, will take place virtually due to restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

Launched in 2013, the huge renovation project in central Berlin has been plagued by delays, controversy and spiraling costs — much like the capital’s ill-fated new international airport that opened in October.

Critics have seized on the new building being home to a museum housing nearly 20,000 artifacts from Africa, Asia and Oceania, mostly from the former colonies.

Hard Lockdown, Lockdown Light, Christmas Lockdown…

December 16, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypochondria, Hysteria Tags: Christmas, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Germans, Germany, Lockdowns, Shopping Leave a comment

Did Germans flock to the stores and through the crowds yesterday to get their Christmas shopping done before the big Christmas lockdown?

And to get their COVID19 infection while they were at it? Of course they did. They had to. But they know that their government is only locking them down for their own good so they are thankful that they were allowed to Christmas shop for as long as they did.

Germans flocked to the shops to get their Christmas shopping done. Now it’s forced them into lockdown for the holiday.

“The people are fed up with the situation.”

Not fed up enough, it seems. Happy Holidays!

Ve Have Vays Of Making You Talk

December 10, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Health, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Humor, Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, Lockdown, State Control, Surveillance Leave a comment

Ve know you have ze virus. Or at least you had it. Ve vere informed by your children. Vhere did you get it? Who did you give ze virus to you?

Give us ze names! Sign ze papers!

Coronavirus: Anti-lockdown group put under surveillance in German state – A Querdenker group, one German state said, has been “infiltrated by extremists.” The movement is responsible for arranging large demonstrations against coronavirus restrictions across the country.

“Avoid your last Christmas wis your grandparents.”

It’s Not Just US-Amerikaner Who Break The Rules

December 8, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Hideology, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Hypocrisy Tags: Brussels, Dishonesty, EU, Fairness, German, Germans, Germany, Honesty, Language, Rules, Statistics Leave a comment

When it comes to holding free and fair elections, for example.

Germany rocks in the Dishonesty Department too. In other areasy maybe. But still.

Germany is now the biggest breaker of EU rules, according to new statistics on enforcement actions started by Brussels against member states.

The figures come despite the country’s leading role in the European project and claims from some quarters that Angela Merkel’s government dominates proceedings in the bloc.

Numbers provided to German newspaper Handelsblatt by the country’s economics ministry show the country’s government is subject to 74 infringement proceedings by the European Commission for failing to implement EU regulations properly in German law.

German Green party politician Markus Tressel told the newspaper Germany was now “bottom of the class” for following EU rules and far from the “model pupil” it was sometimes portrayed as.

Observing Hermann

“Was interessiert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern?”

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