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Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Suddenly going up?
In Thuringia we had 904 new Covid cases today. Slightly down, but the number of confirmed omicron cases was 436 yesterday and has risen to 552 today.
Kathy
Terra Nova Tramp
The number of people in hospital is still low yet but health officials are expecting that to change due to all the new daily cases
Silent_Water
Tribune
By the way, I will not be here so often in the near future because my employment agency is thinking that I am much too young for living at the expense of the German state and so, they sent me to a so-called "reintegration measure" (=> I love this German "fantasy" synonym for it: "Wiedereingliederungsmaßnahme" !), in which my skills in application formulars and languages should be improved. I told the German civil servants that I am probably also too young for a reintegration measure, when I am too young for living at the expense of the state, but they did not really listen to me. So, last Monday, on my way to the reintegration measure, at 7.00 o'clock, I entered a crowded schoolkids' bus which turned during the next 45 minutes into a crowded worker's bus until it arrived at the reintegration measure's bureau building to start my reintegration into the "working population".
Believe it or not, 3 days later in the late evening of Thursday, my smartphone made "a friendly Ding-Dong!" and showed me for the very first time "this legendary German corona alert app" in RED ALERT, warning me that I was already on Monday near a person who just tested positive for Covid-19 this Thursday evening. It was nice to know this 3 days after I could have infected all other members in this reintegration measure, but ... well ...
I heard from friends living in big German cities who haven't seen any GREEN on their smartphone apps for months and I was glad to live in a city where most people have not seen any RED before, but now ... mhm!??
I thought: "Well, I do not have a job yet but it is nice to know that I might have been infected on my way for the preparation to get a job. At least, it is a faster way to become fully integrated again into the working society - e.g. of our German hospitals."
But the next morning, I arrived at the reintegration measure center and they immediately made a fast Covid-19-test - at the expense of my German state! - with me which showed that I am still absolutely healthy.
Now, I am taking a bus which is driving 30 minutes later when most schoolkids and workers are already at the entrance of their buildings and I did not get this RED alert again.
I am now the "morning star" in this reintegration measure because of my language skills and my funny hotel stories, so I will ask tomorrow if I could become a "professional reintegration measure's member" (= "ein professioneller Wiedereingliederungsmaßnahmenteilnehmer" => Yeah! I simply had to write this wonderful German word!
) because it is the funniest time I had for the last years - as long as I take the last possible bus and arrive 1 minute and 25 seconds later than all the others.
Believe it or not, 3 days later in the late evening of Thursday, my smartphone made "a friendly Ding-Dong!" and showed me for the very first time "this legendary German corona alert app" in RED ALERT, warning me that I was already on Monday near a person who just tested positive for Covid-19 this Thursday evening. It was nice to know this 3 days after I could have infected all other members in this reintegration measure, but ... well ...
I heard from friends living in big German cities who haven't seen any GREEN on their smartphone apps for months and I was glad to live in a city where most people have not seen any RED before, but now ... mhm!??
I thought: "Well, I do not have a job yet but it is nice to know that I might have been infected on my way for the preparation to get a job. At least, it is a faster way to become fully integrated again into the working society - e.g. of our German hospitals."
But the next morning, I arrived at the reintegration measure center and they immediately made a fast Covid-19-test - at the expense of my German state! - with me which showed that I am still absolutely healthy.
Now, I am taking a bus which is driving 30 minutes later when most schoolkids and workers are already at the entrance of their buildings and I did not get this RED alert again.
I am now the "morning star" in this reintegration measure because of my language skills and my funny hotel stories, so I will ask tomorrow if I could become a "professional reintegration measure's member" (= "ein professioneller Wiedereingliederungsmaßnahmenteilnehmer" => Yeah! I simply had to write this wonderful German word!
) because it is the funniest time I had for the last years - as long as I take the last possible bus and arrive 1 minute and 25 seconds later than all the others.
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Somehow the corona numbers are going down here in Thuringia. 277 new cases today and the incidence (cases per 100,000 population) is 200.1... No new cases in our county today and the incidence has dropped to 152.
And I wish you a lot of fun with your reintegration into the job market. That's really entertaining. I had the pleasure in 2008 after receiving a knee replacement and being banned from working as an electrical engineer. Luckily, my employer, a local public transport company, had offered me a job as a driver. And so, after a long back and forth, the office agreed to pay for my tram driver's license and also my bus driver's license. Because otherwise I would have had the pleasure of being trained as a transport worker in a logistics company, which of course would have been much easier on the joints!By the way, I will not be here so often in the near future because my employment agency is thinking that I am much too young for living at the expense of the German state and so, they sent me to a so-called "reintegration measure" (=> I love this German "fantasy" synonym for it: "Wiedereingliederungsmaßnahme" !), in which my skills in application formulars and languages should be improved. I told the German civil servants that I am probably also too young for a reintegration measure, when I am too young for living at the expense of the state, but they did not really listen to me. So, last Monday, on my way to the reintegration measure, at 7.00 o'clock, I entered a crowded schoolkids' bus which turned during the next 45 minutes into a crowded worker's bus until it arrived at the reintegration measure's bureau building to start my reintegration into the "working population".
Believe it or not, 3 days later in the late evening of Thursday, my smartphone made "a friendly Ding-Dong!" and showed me for the very first time "this legendary German corona alert app" in RED ALERT, warning me that I was already on Monday near a person who just tested positive for Covid-19 this Thursday evening. It was nice to know this 3 days after I could have infected all other members in this reintegration measure, but ... well ...
I heard from friends living in big German cities who haven't seen any GREEN on their smartphone apps for months and I was glad to live in a city where most people have not seen any RED before, but now ... mhm!??
I thought: "Well, I do not have a job yet but it is nice to know that I might have been infected on my way for the preparation to get a job. At least, it is a faster way to become fully integrated again into the working society - e.g. of our German hospitals."
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But the next morning, I arrived at the reintegration measure center and they immediately made a fast Covid-19-test - at the expense of my German state! - with me which showed that I am still absolutely healthy.
Now, I am taking a bus which is driving 30 minutes later when most schoolkids and workers are already at the entrance of their buildings and I did not get this RED alert again.
I am now the "morning star" in this reintegration measure because of my language skills and my funny hotel stories, so I will ask tomorrow if I could become a "professional reintegration measure's member" (= "ein professioneller Wiedereingliederungsmaßnahmenteilnehmer" => Yeah! I simply had to write this wonderful German word!
By the way, my warning app has never been red either.
Really? But I was told that you tried to improve the program's source code.Note to anyone in Germany who finds their covid app to not be working: I had nothing to do with it.
don’t believe everything you hear about me …Really? But I was told that you tried to improve the program's source code.
twonines
LIMERICUS
So you say.Note to anyone in Germany who finds their covid app to not be working: I had nothing to do with it.
old slave
FELIS RESPICIENS
That sounds painful @Silent_Water but after reading all the stories on this site, you should be prepared for anything.
Good luck in your next endeavour.
Where are hotel receptionists in big demand? Oh, I remember, England. Just wait a while, there is sure to be an emergency visa scheme soon, along with those for truck drivers, poultry pluckers, medics.......................................
Silent_Water
Tribune
Dear Barbaria, don't worry!Note to anyone in Germany who finds their covid app to not be working: I had nothing to do with it.
According to our most famous German technical experts and engineers, our German inventions and devices certainly NEVER fail ... and in some few rare cases such as our new capital airport in Berlin - which is our latest and newest airport for at least 20 years of preparation now - all our experts are at least feeling ashamed for the following decades and they put themselves into a "shaming corner" in their bureaus for ten minutes every day!
The rest of the day, they are probably proud of the greatest German technical failure ever in our history books!
Silent_Water
Tribune
Thank you very much for your good wishes!
But to be honest ... mhm ... I would like to wait for a time in which there are a bit less emergency schemes in England and a bit less "working lunch parties" around a certain house in the Downing Street in London, because they make it there a bit difficult to separate work from party ... at least in our German understanding, because I have heard so from a German friend in London ...
old slave
FELIS RESPICIENS
Do you mean that you don't permanently have a bottle of your excellent Riesling and a plate of käse on your desk at work? @Barbaria1 will be most disappointed.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
So you almost had a 'Wiedereingliederungsmaßnahmenteilnehmerbusfahrtcovidinfektion"?
Silent_Water
Tribune
Yes, in fact I am drinking Riesling only on week-ends and holidays, because I am a "lightweight" concerning alcohol which I really cannot consume like "our German" Bavarians probably are used to consume with their beers. In the meantime, when I am expected to drink with my colleagues after the end of a working day, I must admit that I am sometimes deceiving them because I take out my own bottle:
It looks like an usual beer bottle from ALDI but it is a so-called "Malt Drink", looking like "heavy black beer" but without any alcohol, tasting sweet for a lot of malt and I like to drink it cold in a hot summer and all the others around me are wondering how much of this beer I can drink as long as they do not look closer on the label.And it is also a drink for very intelligent and sophisticated drinkers because this one in the reviews says that its taste and the price is simply great (one bottle 0,28 Euro [!] without German plastic deposit), but he is over 65 years and needs a pipe wrench to open it during the last months:
And yes, @ Dear Loxuru,
you are absolutely right as usual!
'Wiedereingliederungsmaßnahmenteilnehmerbusfahrtcovidinfektion" is the complete and correct German name of the infection I will hopefully never get.
Ahhhh, good to know that there is someone else in the world, and a German no less, who shares my aversion to beer, and is also a lightweight concerning alcohol. Riesling lovers unite!!!
I think I read somewhere that beer consumption in Germany has been declining for years, with the largest proportion of drinkers now firmly concentrated in the older generations. Some notable closings of breweries and the passing of per capital consumption leadership passing over to the Czechs.