If you HAVE to get the virus, this is probably as good a place as any to get it, but I have lived here (Düsseldorf area) for years, and the efficiency isn't anywhere universally that good. Berlin is where the government is. Of course they get preferential treatment. In Düsseldorf, where I live, they bragged that they could test up to 800 people a day. Not on weekends or holidays, of course. At that rate, the might even get around to testing the whole city--in THREE YEARS.
When I got back from Madrid in March, I immediately called our doctor's office, looking to get tested. They said call the health department. I did. After waiting 55 minutes, I finally got through to a live person, who asked if I was showing any symptoms. I wasn't. They said, well then stay home and don't call us unless you do. I said I just came back from a highly infected area. That didn't interest them. Stay home, don't bother us.
OK, so I stayed home--for 5 weeks. I STILL can't get tested. A friend of mine with a small (maybe 30 or 40 employees) firm about 2 hours north of me got himself and his employees tested because he knew the mayor of his town. Good news, only one employee had the antibodies, and according to the test, it was weeks prior to testing, so he was out of danger. But normal mortals like us? "Don't call unless you are dead, and the symptoms haven't improved after a week." Depicting us here in Germany as living in some kind of highly efficient medical utopia gives the wrong impression of what the situation is like for us normal mortals.
As for "our" Trump? ehhh, No thanks. Tried that already. It didn't end well.
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