Unvaccinated Germans will be barred from:
π΄ Culture & leisure facilities
π΄ Non essential retail
Unvaccinated may only meet with their own household & 2 people from another household - indoors & outdoors. π«
Capacity for events is being limited:
ποΈ Outdoors - 15,000
ποΈ Indoors - 5,000
Masks to be worn in schools across all grades. π·π«
Clubs & discos to be shut in areas with more than 350 cases per 100,000.πΈπΊ
The sale of fireworks will be banned for New Year's Eve to prevent crowds and keep hospital beds free. π
Bundestag to vote on vaccination mandate, with possible start February 2022. π
Saty what you like about the government - they've dropped the ball plenty of times - but if you're mad about the new restrictions and you could have been vaccinated, you really have nobody to blame but yourself. ππ»
...and if you come at me with cracks about the Germans embracing their totalitarian past, you won't believe how fast I'll block you.
Cities in the east are having to hire halls to store the dead.
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Having been in the Burg Hohenzollern region this week, I wanted to know what one of the chief dynasties of Europe is up to these days.
Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern, is the heir to the deposed Romanian throne, and... saxophonist and vocalist for the band, 'Royal Groovin''...
Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia, spends his time managing his own brewery, 'Preussens', and repeatedly suing various state governments and the federal government, for the return of all the possessions the last Kaiser, Wilhelm II, had to give upon abdication.
Gotta say, I'm Team Prince Hohenzollern, all the way. Georg Friedrich's a bit of a douche.
Here's a wild local Halloween story that I've alluded to before, but never articulated in full.
In October 1600, Jakob von Validlingen had ended work after hearing cases in Geradstetten, as the local judge or 'Obervogt' of the area.
As it happened, he ran into a friend... /1
Konrad von Degenfeld was the local lord, and had been to a wedding. Both Jakob and Konrad were, not to put too fine a point on it, fond of a drink, and so retired to a local house to neck a few frothy ales and dance a jig. /2
The night progressed, many tankards of ale and fine local wine were drunk and both nded the night quite plastered.
Not plastered enough, however, that Jakob forgot his bedtime routine - leaving his weapon somewhere far away from his bed, and taking a room by himself. /3
There's a special kind of ignorance that comes with anti-vaxxers or anti-lockdown types, a real misunderstanding of the world around them that leads them to frame everything as evidence of creeping totalitarianism.
Quarantine facilities have been in Oz since colonization.
Prior to 1832, vessels arriving in Sydney reporting disease would be quarantined off North Head, until a purpose built station was created in 1832.
For over one hundred years, migrant ships docked at the Sydney quarantine station and offloaded those with infectious diseases. They were confined there until they recovered, then released.
So, in my amateur explorations into the 'Dark Age' Alamanni peoples of Southern Germany, I think I've found the first metalhead in history.
No, wait, hear me out...
In 2001, during building of an underground carpark in Trossingen, on the south-eastern edge of the Black Forest, a grave was found. It dated from the sixth century and contained the body of a man, and associated grave goods.
Contained in the 'death bed' along with the body of the man, was a lyre and a wooden flask.
Today, I want to talk about a place I can never go to.
Today, it's under a bypass that runs between Aalen and Nordlingen, here in Southern Germany.
It still bears the name given to it by those who first settled there - Lauchheim.
That's how it appeared 1500 years ago.
The people who came to live there were the Alamanni - a group of tribes who broke through the Limes (the Roman border wall spanning modern Germany) from the north and settled modern-day Southern Germany, the Alsace and northern Switzerland.
Some of these tribespeople, who arrived in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, settled near modern-day Lauchheim, at a place called Mittelhofen.
There, they built a village with farms, a mill, a smith, etc - like that pictured below (a modern reconstruction, elsewhere).