Germans ‘feel least free’ of all Europeans during pandemic

TheLocal.de ^ | 1 September 2021 11:28 CEST

[Olog-hai]

Nowhere in Europe have people felt more inhibited by 18 months of COVID-19 restrictions than in Germany, a new study by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) finds.

Just one in ten Germans currently “feel free” in their everyday life, while almost half say that they “don’t feel free”, the study published on Wednesday found.

The results put Germany at the bottom of a table of Europeans in 12 EU member states who were asked about their level of freedom now compared to since the pre-pandemic days.

Asked how free they felt before the pandemic hit, two thirds of Germans answered that they “felt free” beforehand. […]

Among Germans, a loss of freedom was most felt most strongly by those who said that they had faced economic hardship during the crisis. …

[Olog-hai]

Wonder how they would feel if they were suddenly teleported to Australia to face those draconian lockdowns.

[PROCON]

I think the French would beg to differ with their get a vaxport to go most anywhere mandate.

Germany isn't there....yet.

[NachOsten]

It means, they are the only honest ones.

The rest of EU is no better off. I guess freedom is not important enough to them.

[T.B. Yoits]

The Germans love being “least free” of all Europeans. Freedom terrifies them because it means they have to think for themselves instead of having Mommy Merkel think for them.