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German police start measuring distances between people with folding rulers

by hncurious on 12/12/21, 5:14 PM with 19 comments

• by bryanrasmussen on 12/12/21, 5:19 PM

  It looks like they were measuring from stomach level, that's somewhat unfair to fat people, they should definitely measure from nostril level.

• by the-dude on 12/12/21, 5:25 PM

  Of course, this is only enforced when it suits them ( at a protest ).

• by RcouF1uZ4gsC on 12/12/21, 7:19 PM

  Looking at the video, it seems the only ones who are not correctly social distancing are the police who are walking rather close to people and each other.

• by _Microft on 12/12/21, 6:03 PM

  The police tries to enforce the rules because the protesters (our local contrarians) quite often violate the rules regarding distancing, masking or contact limitations intentionally.

  Unfortunately this creates a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy because these folks view themselves as persecuted victims in some sort of covert world war. (Last year, a woman from Kassel even compared herself to resistance fighter Sophie Scholl who was executed by the Nazis [0][1])

  The whole contrarian scene here is somewhere between crazy and ruthless by now. Earlier in the pandemic there were parents who took their children to protests to make the police refrain from using water cannons on them [2]. Recently a man from that scene killed his wife and their three daughters because they were caught buying a faked vaccination passport for his wife and were afraid what might happen to them [3]. In another incident, a man shot a student gas station employee after the worker asked him to wear a mask [4]. They're completely out of their minds by now.

  [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y7pNU03i-o

  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scholl (because you might not be familiar with that name if you aren't from Germany)

  [2] https://www.fr.de/politik/corona-demonstration-berlin-infekt...

  [3] https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/tote-koenigs-wusterh...

  [4] https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/idar-oberstein-tankstel...

• by mattkrause on 12/12/21, 5:54 PM

  Are those cops giant? The measuring sticks seem like they can't be two meters long unless the cops are all incredibly tall.

• by mensetmanusman on 12/12/21, 7:26 PM

  I hope it extends to 60ft for an indoor gathering with an aerosol virus.