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The country has been in a crown shutdown again for nearly three weeks, and there is a crowd on the commercial streets of the republic, at least on weekends. On the second Saturday in November, laser scanners counted almost 50,000 passers-by on Hamburg’s Spitalerstrasse, 7,000 more than a week earlier. And as many as at the end of September (details on the counting process here).
It looked similar to Hamburg in many cities in Germany this weekend. People flocked to the centers to shop, stroll, or have coffee with others.
No matter how often the Chancellor may appeal to citizens to stay home and avoid groups: images of city centers show that in the eighth month of the pandemic, many people yearn for normality and are significantly more mobile than during the first closings.
Back then, in March and April, more people withdrew to their homes. The mobility of Germans fell in two weeks by 40 percent, in large cities even by as much as 53 percent, as calculated by researchers at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
