Number Of German Covid Cases Growing

March 16, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: AstraZeneca, Coronavirus, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, Pandemic, Vaccines Leave a comment

“Exponentially.” I know, the government says, we’ll stop using the little vaccine we still have. That ought to help.

Oddly, at this point, I have a feeling it might actually help. Just go with the herd immunity thing and get it over with, Germany.

COVID: German cases are growing ‘exponentially’ again – A leading expert has warned an easing of restrictions has led Germany to the brink of a third wave. Intensive care doctors warn that partial lockdown measures must be put back in place.

“We are exactly on the flank of the third wave. That can no longer be disputed. And, at this point, we have eased the restrictions and that is speeding up the exponential growth.”

Self-Sufficient?

March 14, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Hideology, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, EU, German, Germans, Germany, Nationalism, Pandemic, Vaccines Leave a comment

That’s pure nationalism! And you call yourselves good Europeans. All day long.

Germany seeks to be vaccine self-sufficient by next year – From 2022, Germany should be able to produce enough of its own vaccines to inoculate the whole population in the case of a pandemic, a top official said on Saturday.

Vaccination commissioner Christoph Krupp told newspapers of the Funke Media Group that, by May, a government task force would put forward a concept to achieve the goal of setting up a state-guaranteed system for vaccine production.

Europe, That’s What Went Wrong

March 12, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: Angela Merkel, Coronavirus, COVID-19, EU, Europe, German, Germans, Germany, Management, Pandemic, Ursula von der Leyen, Vaccines 1 Comment

Germany’s COVID management: World wonders what’s gone wrong – A year ago, Germany was effusively praised for its coronavirus response. Nobody would think to do that now. If anything, the international view today is a mixture of astonishment and schadenfreude.

As reported earlier… “Germany is the architect of the European failure because Germany and Merkel were behind pushing for the European process that was a failure from the beginning.”

Europe “ought” to work. But it doesn’t. Then the real world bites back.

German Of The Day: Gesichtskondom

March 9, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Higher Education, Home Cooking Tags: Compound Words, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, Language, Pandemic, Words 1 Comment

That means face condom.

You know, face mask? I don’t make this up that German allows you to make this stuff up. It’s a popular national pastime.

Pandemic Inspires More Than 1,200 New German Words.

Like English, German also offers the possibility of combining of words, especially nouns. The resulting noun chains in English typically feature spaces or hyphens between the different elements, while German ones normally appear as one word. The German penchant for creating complex compound nouns has long been the stuff of comedy. Mark Twain devotes part of his essay on The Awful German Language to these “curiosities,” and many people are familiar with ones like “der Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän” (the Danube Steamship Navigation Company Captain).

Nice Europeans

March 8, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Hurt Feelings Tags: Angela Merkel, Coronavirus, COVID-19, EU, German, Germans, Germany, Pandemic, UK, Vaccines Leave a comment

Come in last.

Germany should have led the world at handling the pandemic. But experts slam Merkel’s vaccine response as a disaster.

“Germany is the architect of the European failure because Germany and Merkel were behind pushing for the European process that was a failure from the beginning,” Julian Reichelt, the managing editor of Germany’s largest selling tabloid newspaper Bild, told CNN.

“She wanted to make it all about Europe and her being a great European,” he says.

German Of The Day: Wer ist Schuld?

March 7, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hi-tech, Hideology Tags: Angela Merkel, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, Language, Pandemic, Tests, Vaccines Leave a comment

That means who is guilty, who is responsible?

It started out with not enough Covid vaccines being ordered (Germany left that up to Brussels – big mistake). Now, after proclaiming the efficacy of Covid quick tests to make up for this lack of vaccines, not enough of these were ordered either.

Who is to blame? That’s easy. It’s never Angela Merkel, ever. See the guy up there on the right? That’s her health minister.

Corona-Pandemie – Schnelltest-Chaos spitzt sich zu – Wer ist schuld?

Unhappy?

March 5, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helections, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: Angela Merkel, Coronavirus, COVID-19, EU, Euro Zone, German, Germans, Germany, Pandemic, Polls, Surveys, Ursula von der Leyen, Vaccines Leave a comment

Who cares? You didn’t vote for me. As a matter of fact, nobody did. Other than non-elected officials like me, that is.

You can’t fire me. And I don’t quit. I’m not a quiter. I’m a loser maybe, but I’ll quit when I decide to, thank you.

Germans unhappy with EU’s handling of vaccine scheme – Roughly half of Germans believe the EU has handled the coronavirus vaccine rollout badly, according to an opinion poll. It comes as separate research finds a majority want an end to the country’s lockdown…

The United Kingdom has given at least one jab to 31% of its population, while Germany has so far at least partially vaccinated 7.63% of its population (that actually means more like 3.5, of course), according to figures compiled by Our World In Data.

That is marginally above the EU average of 7.60 people for every 100.

Germany Extends Coronavirus Lockdown To The Year 2525

March 3, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypochondria, Hysteria Tags: Angela Merkel, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, Lockdown, Pandemic, Regulations, Restrictions Leave a comment

Where everything you think, do, and say, is in the pill you took today…

Germany’s national government and states are set to extend the COVID-19 lockdown by three weeks, to March 28…

According to the draft text, up to five adults from two households would be allowed to gather from March 8, with up to 10 adults allowed in areas with low infection rates. Under current rules, each household can only socialize with one other person.

The German government is also expected to appeal to citizens to avoid domestic and foreign travel over the Easter period.

Current lockdown measures have been credited with helping bring down daily new infection numbers.

However, experts last week warned that the declining infection rate had stabilized and even started climbing slightly, with growing concerns about the spread of new virus variants.

The number of coronavirus cases in Germany went up by 3,943 to 2,451,011, according to figures released early on Monday by the country’s Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases. COVID-linked fatalities went up by 358, to 70,463 in total.

German Of The Day: Verweilverbot

March 1, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hysteria Tags: Big Brother, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Data Security, Pandemic, Privacy, Regulations Leave a comment

That means, a ban on lingering. Pausing. Sitting on a park bench. Standing still and looking at trees. Stuff like that.

That is now forbidden in German cities like Düsseldorf because Big Brother is from the government and is here to help. To help you not spread the Coronavirus. I’m not making this up, people. If the people from the Ordnungsamt (Office of Order) see you sitting on a bench there admiring the Rhine or something you can and will be fined. Can’t wait for the new immunity passes to come out!

Verweilverbot: Nicht alle halten sich dran.

Implant A Chip In Me While You’re At It

February 28, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Angela Merkel, Coronavirus, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, IDs, Immunity Pass, Pandemic, Passports, State Control, Vaccines Leave a comment

So much for the infamous German obsession with privacy and data security.

“They’re from the government and they’re here to help us, honey. What could possibly go wrong?”

Most Germans keen on COVID vaccination passport – Around 60% of Germans surveyed for a new poll said they were in favor of immunity passports. Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed her support, albeit only when most residents have been offered the shot.

“When we have made a vaccination offer to enough people and some of them refuse to be vaccinated, we will have to consider whether there should be openings and access only for vaccinated people in certain areas.”

Observing Hermann

“Was interessiert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern?”

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