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5. The German government did seize one shipment destined for the USA

It was already ready to be shipped when German customs caught it and stopped it.

Once medical supplies are allocated for somewhere, as far as I know, they get sent there. However, in the big city nearest us (we are a suburb of Düsseldorf), they have (announced yesterday) the physical capacity to test 800 people a day, or about 0.1% of the population. Great--in three years they'll have tested almost everyone!

Everything is in short supply, including masks. Gloves, I don't know.

Germans and immigrants are still irrationally buying up stocks of toilet paper. There is never any on store shelves. Our neighbor told us (no idea if this is really true) that the Germans have been irrationally stocking up on toilet paper and cheese crackers, where the French have been hoarding red wine and condoms. It sound very stereotypical, but no one ever claimed people were rational, so who knows?