This Week in Deutschland
With everything happening in the States I think Germany wants to one up the drama with her antics. I feel like every week since November something changes in the realm of maskenpflicht. It is thee buzzword since the second lockdown began and refuses to end. I personally am tired of hearing it. We are now entering the fourth quarter of this never-ending measure and things have changed. In certain areas where infection rates are 200:100,000 leute, people will not be able to leave a 15km radius of their Stadt. Germans seemed to be overly amused by that since there is nowhere to fucking go. Businesses deemed non-essential have been closed since December 16th. We ruined Christmas. We boarded up and blocked off Silvester. America fucked up Three Kings. Is it expected that Germans will be entertained with empty streets in the middle of January? For most of us not in small villages, there is the lovely feature of having grocery within walking distance. So 15km is sort of strange. I think they could tighten that radius as one Rewe really doesn't differ too much from another. Secondary to that some states are now requiring FFP2 KN95 masks. For some of us, this too is amusing as we have known that these are the most effective, disposable masks on the market. There is just the problem of finding decent ones at a decent price. Here in Köln I have seen them sold as one for 10€ and three for 3,50€ each or lower with a student discount. In Bayern, older people can collect two a week gratis from their local apotheke. This then opened a discussion about how durable these masks are to begin with. My husband and I are quite fond of a man that comes in Aldi with a surgical mask so old it is somewhere between grey and black instead of light blue. He certainly didn't get any memo around durability. Just know that the average KN95 is good for eight hours as long as it isn't wet. Unfortunately, with this language and the need to discuss everything all the damn time as well as the climate - your masks will get wet! So replacing a mask for every outing isn't ideal at those above costs even gratis. Because sooner or later the supply will have demand and deplete. I say if you aren't in Bayern get your masks now or invest in a particle mask for funsies. While it is known we will extend the lockdown through January 31st it is also rumored to lengthen to April. I am totally fine with this as long as my husband returns to work and online orders never cease. Otherwise, I too will be apart of the growing statistic of depressed, suicidal people that are unacknowledged during these incessant lockdowns. Surely, we do have the internet albeit the slowest in all of Europe and soon to be throttled by constant data privacy changes implemented in the worst time in history. All of that on the toes of our own Mutti claiming it was wrong for Big Tech to silence the twice impeached leader of the free world. I get it but I also do not care about Twitter right now. My biggest question is why bail out an airline, open an airport in construction for 1000 years and speak boldly about freedom when we cannot go anywhere. Ich liebe es. While we are inside the virus is outside in now four different unique variations while Deutschland stays indoors until Spring. Well some of us are outside building tent cities for vaccinationsy only for old people which we have too many of so I guess we will all be saved in 2022 or never. Yeah, last in news Germany officially flatlined for births this week. Well I think November will be the judge of that.
Achso!
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