Three’s A Crowd

March 23, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Health, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hysteria Tags: Angela Merkel, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Curfews, German, Germans, Germany, Restrictions Leave a comment

And we don’t like crowds. You’re under arrest.

Has Germany imposed a total curfew? No. But more than two people can’t be outside together — unless they’re part of the same household. Going for a walk with a friend is fine, even if you don’t live with them, but groups of three or more are forbidden unless you’re family or roommates. A minimum distance of “at least 1.5 meters (5 feet), or better yet 2 meters” should be maintained whenever possible, Chancellor Angela Merkel said as she announced the new measures on Sunday.

“Keine Empfehlungen, sondern Regeln.”

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.

German Of The Day: Ausgangssperre

March 19, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hysteria Tags: Berlin, Corona, COVID-19, Curfews, German, Germans, Germany, Language, Quarantines Leave a comment

That means curfew. As in Corona Curfew. And it looks like there might be one imposed in Berlin before all too long.

The recommendation to stay home is being ignored by Berliners and the mayor is threatening with one because “the people still haven’t understood what’s going on.”

Ausgangssperre droht: „Haben es noch nicht verstanden.”

How Do You Tittelate An Ocelot?

March 18, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Humility, Hurt Feelings Tags: Armies, Bundeswehr, Classified Information, German, Germans, Germany, Laptops, Military, Secrets, Security 3 Comments

No, not that kind of an ocelot. The German Ozelot mobile air defense missile system kind of ocelot.

Why would you want to? Just buy an old Bundeswehr laptop on eBay for $100 that includes classified Ozelot instructions and proceed to destroy the damned thing.

VS-Nur für den Dienstgebrauch.

Other Than Bars…

March 17, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hurt Feelings, Hysteria Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, Hysteria, Lockdowns, Panic, Quarantines Leave a comment

Clubs, discotheques, theaters, opera houses, museums, casinos, trade fairs, zoos, arcades, betting offices, brothels, churches and fifty or sixty other places for social and anti-social interaction, lots of other stuff in Germany is still open. Sort of. For now.

Corona ain’t no big deal here either.

Die Bundesregierung vereinbarte am Montag mit den Ministerpräsidenten der Länder, dass zahlreiche Geschäfte und Einrichtungen geschlossen werden sollen.

But Don’t Panic

March 12, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hysteria Tags: Angela Merkel, Coronavirus, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, Hysteria, Panic Leave a comment

When it comes to the coronavirus, Angela Merkel tells her fellow Germans.

The population has no immunity, she points out. There is no therapy. 60 to 70% of you will be infected with it. BUT DON’T PANIC!!!

So, there. I said it. Now it’s back to the bunker for me. You promised.

The German daily Bild recently slammed her for what it called “the corona chaos,” claiming “No appearances, no speech, no leadership in the crisis.”

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, Reuters reported, was later asked about Merkel’s comments. “I don’t want to comment on the situation in Germany, although I believe that such statements rather cause panic,” he said. “In any case, we have adopted strong measures for such worst-case scenarios to be out of the question.”

Welcome To Corona Queen!

March 11, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hi-tech, Home Cooking Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Drive-Thrus, German, Germans, Germany, Hospitals, Medicine Leave a comment

Would you like Jumbo Flu Fries with your Outbreak Burger?

German hospital launches drive-thru coronavirus testing – Doctors at the local hospital in the small German town of Gross-Gerau launched the drive-thru last week as a quick, creative way to screen people for the deadly bug and minimize exposure for medical staff and patients.

“Extraordinary times call for extraordinary solutions.”

German Of The Day: Humbug

March 10, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Anti-Greta, Climate Change, CO2, German, Germans, Germany, Greta, Greta Thunberg, Language, Naomi Seibt 1 Comment

That means humbug. Only it’s pronounced hoomboog. This is German, after all.

Germans don’t know who she is yet. Geez. Are they always the last to know?

Naomi Seibt aus Münster erklärt den Klimawandel zum Humbug. That means Naomi Seibt from Münster says the climate change is humbug.

The rest of the article, as you can imagine, explains how this “controversial international star” (from Germany) is a bad thing. Person, I mean. Pronounced purrsown.

Naomi Seibt aus Münster erklärt den Klimawandel zum Humbug. Damit ist sie international zum umstrittenen Star geworden – auch wegen ihrer Affinität zur politischen Rechten. Wer ist diese 19 Jahre alte Frau?

German Of The Day: Hamsterschlacht

March 9, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hysteria Tags: ALDI, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Disnfectant, German, Germans, Germany, Hysteria, Language, Panic, Shopping 2 Comments

You already know about Hamsterkauf (panic buying). Now the Germans have upped the ante and are doing “the battle of the hamsters.”

Aldi customers are getting up early in the morning to get in line so they can fight each other to purchase disinfectant. Only three products per customer may be purchased, however (doesn’t sound like much of a hamster battle to me). Everybody’s doing it these days. It’s that coronavirus kinda feeling!

Sie stehen dicht an dicht. Dutzende Kunden warten morgens an einer Aldi-Filiale auf die Eröffnung des Ladens. Der Grund: Desinfektionsmittel!

Observing Hermann

“Was interessiert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern?”

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