Just Like In The Good Old USA

April 5, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Hostility, Hypocrisy Tags: Angela Merkel, Anti-Americanism, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, Donald Trump, German, Germans, Germany, Patriotism, Polls, Popularity, Solidarity, Surveys, Unity Leave a comment

Opinion: Germans rally behind Merkel amid coronavirus crisis.

A recent poll shows that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives have seen a spike in popularity as Germany battles the coronavirus pandemic. This illustrates that our democracy is stable, says DW’s Jens Thurau.

It’s the same in the US, right? Everyone in America rallies behind the President of the United States amid the coronvirus crisis there, don’t they? It’s just what one does. Citizens forget party politics, petty personal hysterics and even the Trump Derangement Syndrome ITSELF at times of great need like these to support their government and solve a real problem. That’s just what Americans do. And that’s what’s happening in America right now, right? Right.

By the way, the same Germans who supposedly rally behind Frau Merkel still jump at every opportunity they can get – today – to continue bashing Donald Trump with as much vehemence as they can muster. So much for today’s Sunday School sermon, Deutsche Welle.

German Of The Day: Denunziant

April 3, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hostility, Hurt Feelings, Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, Language, Lockdown, Police, Quarantine, Regulations, Rules 1 Comment

The means informer. Or snitch.

Snitching. It’s just what Germans do.

Law-abiding Germans are zealously helping police crack down on people flouting new social distancing rules aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus by reporting on strangers, neighbours and friends.

In a country where denunciation was commonplace under the Communists in East Germany and Hitler’s Nazis, police forces across the country are getting tip-offs on anything from “corona parties” to people driving to weekend cottages.

Das böse D-Wort – Der Begriff “Denunziant” erlebt in Zeiten von Covid-19 eine Wiedergeburt. Ist Deutschland durchsetzt von meldewütigen Hobbypolizisten?

Nice Try, Gazprom Gerd

April 2, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Humor, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Corona, Coronavirus, Face Masks, Fugitives, Gerhard Schröder, German, Germans, Germany, Mandatory Face Masks, Masks Leave a comment

You can run, Gerhard Schröder, but you can’t hide.

More and more people in Germany are voluntarily wearing face masks in public, as seen here with former chancellor Schröder and his partner.

Immer mehr Menschen in Deutschland tragen in der Öffentlichkeit freiwillig Schutzmasken. Wie hier Alt-Kanzler Schröder mit seiner Lebensgefährtin.

Smart Move

March 31, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Face Masks, German, Germans, Germany, Government Planning, Government Waste, Jena, Planning Leave a comment

I guess. German city introduces face masks for shoppers as corona cases rise.

It’s just that the German government doesn’t have any face masks for the population. Nor does German industry. They shipped them all off to China as the pandemic began. No joke. Now Germans are forced to either make their face masks themselves or pay ridiculous prices for the few that are available until industrial production gets back up to speed again. Thank goodness for government planning.

The city of Jena in eastern Germany has decided to make people wear face masks when shopping or traveling by public transport, stepping up efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus and becoming the first city in the country to introduce the measure.

Split Personality

March 30, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hostility, Hurt Feelings Tags: Berlin, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, Lockdowns, Quarantines, Restrictions Leave a comment

German style (in the time of coronavirus). On the one hand, Germans have been asked to stay home and avoid contact with one another at least until 20 April.

On the other hand, the police were called out hundreds of times during the weekend as residents flouted restrictions aimed at stemming the spread of coronavirus.

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t?

‘Absolute madness’: Outrage as crowds flout Germany’s coronavirus rules.

800 Cruise Ship Passengers To Be Flown To Germany

March 29, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hi-tech, Home Cooking Tags: Airbus, Airbus A350, Aircraft, Airforce One, Angela Merkel, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19 Leave a comment

From Australia. But it won’t be on Merkel One.

Germany will soon receive its first aircraft to ferry around the German head of state and other high-level officials, reports Live and Let’s Fly. The aircraft, an Airbus A350-900, has just completed its fourth test flight out of Airbus facilities in Toulouse, France.

The Patron Saint Of What?

March 27, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: Corona, Epidemics, German, Germans, Germany, Martyrs, Patron Saints, Religion, Saints 2 Comments

A German cathedral has dug out from a treasure chamber its collection of remains of St. Corona, the little-known Christian martyr who has been purported to be the patron saint of resisting epidemics.

But now nobody can admire Corona because of Corona.

The Aachen Cathedral had already been planning before the coronavirus outbreak to showcase the remains and an elaborate shrine to the saint as part of an exhibit of gold craftsmanship, according to Reuters.

But it has now accelerated its plans after the pandemic began sweeping across the globe — though it remains unclear when people will be able to visit the display amid strict restrictions on public gatherings.

But Have They Checked Her For Mad Cow Disease?

March 24, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Health, Helplessness, Hysteria Tags: Angela Merkel, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19 Leave a comment

Angela Merkel negative for coronavirus after first test, with more to come.

Merkel went into quarantine at home on Sunday evening after being informed that a doctor who had administered a vaccination to her had tested positive for the new coronavirus. She received the precautionary vaccination against pneumococcal infection on Friday.

It’s Only Money

March 22, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hysteria Tags: Berlin, Budgets, Corona, COVID-19, Economy, German, Germans, Germany, Government spending, Spending Leave a comment

Other people’s money. But still.

The schwarze Null or “black zero” (meaning a balanced budget) was yesterday. A supplementary budget for 2020 at about 40 percent the size of the original one will now be approved by the German cabinet to help fight the economic woe being caused by the corona pandemic.

Germany tears up fiscal rule book to counter coronavirus pandemic – Berlin to raise €150bn in new debt to bolster ailing economy.

Thanks, Party Folk

March 20, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: Berlin, Corona, Corona Beer, Corona Parties, COVID-19, Curfews, German, Germans, Germany, Irresponsibility, Lockdowns, Partying, Young People, Youth Leave a comment

Or Volk, if you prefer. Thanks to you a total Corona lockdown is virtually assured now.

Confusion, defiance and parties in the park: A postcard from Berlin under coronavirus lockdown – Police had to break up several so-called “Corona Parties” on Monday evening, where hundreds of students had bought cases of Corona beer and gathered in parks.

In Berlin zum Beispiel sind die Clubs zwar geschlossen, trotzdem treffen sich viele Jugendliche einfach in Parks zum gemeinsamen Trinken.

Observing Hermann

“Was interessiert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern?”

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