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.
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.”
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.
Observing Hermann 