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And they decided........................................................... nothing!

They just wwant to wait another week. All they decided was that people of high risk groups will get 15 of those filter masks on a discount, but when, how, where and even who exactly, they still need to decide.

We just have around 300 death people per day, so let's just wait another week 

Problem is, Angela Merkes really wants to do something, but in Germany the states have to decide what to do and what not, and the states don't want to do anything. Now Merkel is angry and I can totally understand her.

The extra restrictions from the last two weeks got turned back. But we will still remain in partial lockdown until the middle of December. The government already indicated this situation will probably last until the middle of January. But they are hoping numbers will better, so they can temporarily allow some extra things for Christmas. I think the biggest threat is keeping stores open despite guidelines to stay at home as much as you can. People will ignore that and crowd places for Christmas shopping.

Yeah. The criteria for “essential” businesses are quite loose. I’m in that category too. It’s essential that plants on our site are producing. But office personnel is not essential. At least not to work on site. We just recently got ordered to work as much from home as possible. All summer people came to our office to socialize. Supermarkets are very essential of course. But they could do a lot more to protect you guys.

My mom said there was a story on the news or she heard somewhere about my province or maybe the whole country talking about stores and essential businesses and how smaller businesses are shut down and not allowed to be open. But they are whining about the bigger department stores that also sell food and how it’s unfair, and there was talk about preventing people from buying things like clothes and electronics and stuff because it’s not essential apparently. I think that’s stupid because clothes are basically essential for people. Some people don’t have a lot of extra clothes on hand and just have a few shirts and pants, so what happens if they rip all their pants or shirts and need more clothes? Department stores will be the only ones to offer clothes unless you wait a week or two for ’Amazon’ to ship clothes to you. I think that’s really stupid for them to even consider stopping people from buying things like electronics and stuff other than food and essentials in big stores. It’s a one stop shop so it’s fair game. They can’t just take everything off the floor that isn’t food. They don’t have room in the back to put it all. What are they going to tape off and separate areas so people can’t get to them? They can’t stop someone from getting something and buying it. I understand small businesses are upset but they can’t just tell big stores they can’t sell things that people do essentially need to clothe themselves or keep themselves sane during this time (electronics).

Yes, that's what they did in Wales. They had plastic sheets over inessential items and signs up saying they weren't allowed to sell these objects. Tbh I kind of get it, small businesses need better support so I can understand why they feel this is unfair to them. Here in Glasgow we've had pretty much everything shut from March-August and then they've been closed for the past 7 weeks and will be shut for 3 more. I will honestly be surprised if anything other than big chains is open in 2021, which is a damn shame and only furthering the monopolies that these big brands have.

Yeah. That’s why they want people to skip Black Friday over here. In Austria it was a massacre in stores. The government decided on a full lockdown. But prior to that people rushed to stores and waited in line for hours.