BERLIN — Germany is extending its worldwide travel warning until mid-June, saying the coronavirus situation is too dire to change the guidance.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1306462
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1306462
Once again, a prudent action in an effort to reduce risk.
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Angela Merkel appears to be the Andrew Cuomo of Germany: Sane. Honest. Straightforward. Trustworthy.
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I’m guessing the good old USA is at the very tippy top of their Do Not Travel list?
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IOW, not Trumpish…
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…When even the Germans don’t want to annex the Sudetenland, you know it’s bad…
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Yup.
We’re still going on with slow-going re-openings here, but people are still requested to stay home as much as possible. My employer has notified us that the WFH policy from a number of weeks ago will continue indefinitely (was tentatively due to end on Monday). There’s also an informal “survey” being done by our Workers Council (Betriebsrat) asking who would want/need to come back and for how many days a week (because some folks share offices and labs). From my dept some have childcare issues and cannot return until that changes, some require lab equipment and would want to come back 5 days, others a couple of days and WFH the other days, and a few have indicated that due to some health concerns they would prefer to continue as over the past weeks as long as possible.
The problem is resolving shared space and distancing issues — even with the best of wills, there are a lot more details to be worked out than we can imagine.
The slight uptick in the R value was sort of expected and it’s still within a good range, but made people slow down again, because it popped back up fairly quickly.
I am envisioning no business travel this year at all, for the first time in many years.
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