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Also the "honor system" for quarantine. Also the closure of museums (airy, 25% capacity, everyone masked) but not department stores (crowded, many ignoring mas
by biztos 5y ago
Also the "honor system" for quarantine. Also the closure of museums (airy, 25% capacity, everyone masked) but not department stores (crowded, many ignoring mask rules). Also the fact that my art-supply store in Berlin had to cordon off the half of its inventory that wasn't on the "essential" list, so some paint yes, some paint no. Also the refusal to confront the anti-vaxxers (police complicity, etc). Also the very public promises they knew they probably couldn't keep (Christmas is big in Germany).
I had a pretty high opinion of German government competence, Berlin-specific dramas notwithstanding, before the pandemic. I now have a very, very low one.
- CountDrewku 5y agoYes an authoritarian police state enforcing quarantine in Germany sounds like a great idea. I'm sure there are historical examples they can follow.
- biztos 5y agoOr, you could be honest with the public and call it voluntary. In many countries, compulsory quarantine was enforced. In Germany it never was, but they still presented it as compulsory and held out the possibility that it might be enforced. I don’t wish they had enforced it, I wish they had been honest about the arrangement.
- CountDrewku 5y agoWell, this is the issue you have with a lot of these lockdown, mask laws. Are they enforceable? No, unless you have a compliant population and in that case no law is probably necessary. Almost all western governments did a piss poor job of preventing facts which why we're in the situation we are now. They appear untrustworthy because they've presented partial truths or completely changed their stance throughout.