It is an interesting paradox, for many of us in International Business, to see situations, where clear and precise ‘Rules of Engagement’ are not active throughout a country [where noted for its intelligent citizens]; these ‘Rules’ [now effete in Germany] are as to CV-19. It appears that rather than have a ‘Nation-Wide” direction for citizens to follow, each State has its own rules to obey. We are impressed by the concept: “Sword of Consistency”; that is, Leaders not only issue their mandates, but also enforce them vigorously. “No Bite, No Fright” prevails where rigorous abidement of rules is absent. In Germany, as in other countries, many people are perishing from CV-19. It is not the time to engage in social clustering, as a mandate of ‘fashionability’ with others.
The one common thread we see in the on-going CV-19 ‘episodes’ in Germany, is a continuance of ‘weak leadership’ at both the Federal as well as State levels. In the first instance, many of the Federal leaders did not see CV-19 ‘beyond the horizon’; nor did they know when it had arrived. This we attribute to a massive failure of ‘proper intelligence’ by those who should know; by those who MUST communicate. Upon, being cognizant of CV-19’s visitation, leaders did little to attack it, apparently. The dispersion of the virus was not understood, and the fact that Germany would have many citizens and non-citizens, that were asymptomatic, confused the leadership. Since the top leader of the country was a noted Chemist, such lack of understanding possible parameters of this virus is unusual. Even more so to us, is the fact, it appears this same person did not IMMEDIATELY call upon the country’s best Bio-Chemists for their ‘counter-attack’ recommendations; appalling. “Good Leadership is, as Good Leadership does: Decisive and Timely.”
The recent ‘Canal Event’, we think, had one beneficiary: CV-19. This ‘weak’ “Single Strand, RNA” needs all the help it can get, for transmissivity. If the ‘rafters’ in the canal were desirous to become “Sheep for the Wolves”, they were. If they desired to become “Agents of the Wolves” rest assured, it most likely happened. While they may have acheived financial or social redress to their grievances, [as the rationale for the event] they also attained sociopathic plaudits, from ‘those’ they helped logarithmically: the Wolves of CV-19.
Reality: Good social intentions, performed hazardly and untimely, can endanger all; this, when the Wolves are knocking on the door (or are already in the house).