Posted on 03/29/2020 4:46:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In her first address to the nation on the coronavirus pandemic, German Chancellor Angela Merkel calmly appealed to citizens’ reason and discipline to slow the spread of the virus, acknowledging as a woman who grew up in communist East Germany how difficult it is to give up freedoms, yet as a trained scientist emphasizing that the facts don’t lie.
Then, wearing the same blue pantsuit from the televised address, the 65-year-old popped into her local supermarket to pick up food, wine and toilet paper to take back to her Berlin apartment.
Merkel has run Germany for more than 14 years and has over a decade’s experience of managing crises. She reassured her compatriots in the 2008 financial crisis, and then took an initially welcoming - but divisive - approach to an influx of migrants in 2015.
In the twilight of her chancellorship, she faces her biggest crisis yet — a fact underlined by her decision last week to make her first television address to the nation other than her annual New Year’s message.
“This is serious — take it seriously,” she told her compatriots. “Since German unification — no, since World War II — there has been no challenge to our country in which our acting together in solidarity matters so much.”
With Germany largely shutting down public life, she alluded to her youth in communist East Germany as she spelled out the scale of the challenge and made clear how hard she found the prospect of clamping down on people’s movement.
“For someone like me, for whom freedom of travel and movement were a hard-won right, such restrictions can only be justified by absolute necessity,” she said. But they were, she said, “indispensable at the moment to save lives.”
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Hopefully, she had to wash her hands before shopping in that supermarket.
In China, tenants lowered buckets from their apartments using ropes and food was placed in the buckets.
“acknowledging as a woman who grew up in communist East Germany how difficult it is to give up freedoms, yet as a trained scientist emphasizing that the facts don’t lie.”
What a real Sunday morning howler. And there are many of us here who remember the 1970s and early ‘80s East German women’s swim teams and the “science” involving them.
Funny Hitler did the same PR
Then, wearing the same blue pantsuit from the televised address?
what drivel.
at top of article is says by news wires. at bottom it’s attributed to AP. no surprise.
More ‘lap dog’ media using the power of information warfare to fool people.
JoMa
Also interesting: France24 is state-owned.
The New Yorker (/spit) did a story based on the same event, and they referred to her as “the leader of the free world”.
But that was a week ago. I understand Andrew Cuomo has taken over that role now.
She looks like she is resisting the urge to do a Nazi solute in that picture?
Maybe.
Some thought Cuomo was doing a good job at first as well.
“Merkel has run Germany for more than 14 years and has over a decade’s experience of managing crises.”
A good example of why we should repeal the 22nd Amendment.
What?
What what??
This stupid article makes no sense. I wanders all over the field and says NOTHING
till they discovered that he didn’t know sh.. about wqhat ny had in storage. Our good President set him straight.
Thought she was in quarantine
Back to the business of banning europeans from German borders while flying in migrants from Turkey?
Then why did she irresponsibly say this:
“When the virus is out there, the population has no immunity and no therapy exists, then 60 to 70 percent of the population will be infected,” she said. The population of Germany is about 83 million people.
Source; https://www.foxnews.com/world/angela-merkel-70-percent-germany-coronavirus
Makes you wonder what the underlying motivation for posting it here was, doesn't it?
455 deaths
55,000 confirmed
Merkel predicted there could be 60-70% of Germans infected. That would be 48-56 million. Really???
Totally irresponsible and needless.
Wine and toilet paper…nice.
Wonderful Germany, I have a first cousin that is a specialist in internal medicine and surgery and she just quit because she was tired of having to watch her patients suffer because she wasn’t given the medicine to treat them, well the actual citizens, but I bet you can guess who the German government made sure did get medication.
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