It's getting interesting.

Today was one of those days where nothing went really wrong, but also nothing really went - it feels like I've not gotten around to anything I had planned to do, the list of things to do only growing and not shrinking.

It's been a non-sunny, rather drab day outside as well. Not bad, but also not really good. We're going to do a little round on the bike now, to keep our sanity and our health up, something we've found is utterly important in these times. These times, which are about to become interesting, or even more interesting, again. Here in Germany, hairdressers have opened since about the first of March, and as of today, if the numbers are "low" enough and "stable" enough, other shops are also allowed to open. I can't actually tell you the exact rules for what is allowed to open where and under what circumstances - but I can tell you that all the openings are allowed for incidence numbers way above the fabled 35.

Germany measures things in cases per 100.000 inhabitants in the last 7 days, and 35 was decreed as the first threshold, after which measures should be taken. That was a long, long while ago, back when the first wave had ebbed off. Back then, some of the scientists already said that it would be a rather high number for that first threshold, and that 20 would be way better. Now, as it is quite certain that we won't reach 35  - or in some cases even 50! - without a real, proper shutdown, there has been a change of heart, or of whatever, and now things are suddenly possible and no problem in the range of 50, or up to 100. The reason given is that "we have quicktests now! we can test! We can use a test strategy to make openings possible!" Well, if that strategy is about as good and solid as the vaccination strategy hereabouts...

So. We're opening things, and are taking back measures for curbing the spread of the virus, at a point in time when our numbers are not falling anymore, but already rising again. Slowly yet, but rising - this is almost exactly what happened back in autumn and before Christmas. On top of this, the more aggressive variants of the virus are definitely on the rise here, according to virus DNA tests... so my pessimistic self is just waiting for numbers to explode again, and for the next "lockdown" to happen, again way too late and way too lax to get things under control for a good while, and another Easter without friends and family.

Sigh. I would really like to go bouldering again, and sit in a café outside, and meet with friends... but the way it looks here right now? That's not going to happen anytime soon.

Oh, yes, and I do know that today's International Women's Day... but I'm not going to rant about that, too. Feel free to help out with that in the comments, though, if you feel like it!