Check out this protest in Germany over COVID restrictions. They had to bring out the water cannons.

[octoberlib]

Link to tweet

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Police used water cannons to disperse thousands of people who were protesting against Germany's COVID-19 measures in Berlin, as parliament discussed further restrictions. https://abcn.ws/32Vvm1U


We're not the only democracy full of lunatics.

[maxsolomon]

1. Nihilism is a component of Human Nature

some people embrace Fatalism; they know that Death finds us all, and the increase in the rate of deaths due to Covid is acceptable.

There is no fix for this.

[octoberlib]

4. In Singapore and South Korea they didn't have a problem with this , though.

Maybe it's a western thing?

[maxsolomon]

9. Partially.

Singapore is not noted as a bastion of Individualism.

[lapfog_1]

2. should have sprayed them with

hand sanitizer.

Everyone is tired of Pandemic. Everyone wants to go out to eat or back to a job that requires person to person contact...

you know what doesn't care about that... the damn virus doesn't care.

[rustysgurl]

3. I feel I can say this as a person of close German descent, with relatives still living there.

This country and its people didn't fall to the Nazis for no good reason. That element still exists there -- it's just (in the words of Elmer Fudd) "vewy, vewy qwiet." Except for now.

[Turin_C3PO]

5. Any country can go down that path.

Germany’s not special in that regard. But they’ve done a lot to reckon with their Nazi past.

[octoberlib]

7. I have a feeling that if Biden imposes a shutdown after he assumers office

the Trumpers will be out in the streets just like this. Of course they're basically authoritarian followers.

[mtnsnake]

6. This is another reason why Trump can't be yanked out of the WH soon enough

Germany and any other country doesn't deserve this nonsense, much of it which is fueled by bullshit lies coming from Trump.

[FakeNoose]

8. Looks like their police did a good job of stopping the demonstration

I don't see anybody getting past the water cannons and police vans. Maybe they succeeded in turning people around and getting them to leave. One can always hope that's the case.

Can anybody hear a marching band in that crowd? Maybe my ears are deceiving me, but it sounds like a fife and drum corps in the background.

[maxsolomon]

11. Getting soaking wet in mid-November in Northern Europe

would turn me right around.

[BadgerKid]

10. With or without gas (carbonation)? nt

[DFW]

12. We have the same explosive combination here, minus the weapons

A large, suddenly out-of-work young population who can drink legally at a young age (16), and takes every advantage of it. Close the bars for a day, and you invite unrest. Close them for a week, and you invite civil war.

[octoberlib]

14. Young people aren't out in the streets over here yet,

but a lot of them definitely have no use for masks and social distancing if it gets in the way of partying. The bars are closed in Charlotte so young people have been congregating at restaurants with bars and the restaurants aren’t abiding by the capacity limits.

There have also been a lot of huge parties with hundreds of people at universities.

[tanyev]

13. Unbelievable. I've got a book about the 1918 pandemic on hold at the library.

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I'm really interested in what it says about anti-maskers, resisters, etc. My assumption as this all began was that with all of our advances in science, medicine and communication that we wouldn't make those particular mistakes again. Even as it became obvious that the Trump Administration response would be criminally incompetent. We as individuals still had the power to mitigate that by doing something very easy and inexpensive--staying home as much as possible and wearing masks when going somewhere. But there are apparently many millions of people that won't. Won't do it, don't care what happens to themselves or anyone else, just won't. It's incomprehensible.