The Law of Unintended Consequences... Covid again...

[Lost It]

I scribbled this down as we were having the conversation but... I have a friend in Germany (Connected through a car club, long story) and we have just had an interesting WhatsApp chat.. So I may have got some of it wrong as I can't always read my own writing.

Basically: In Germany, there's a traffic jam on the road into Poland caused by Polish truckers trying to get home.
Poland has closed it's border and every LDTD that has been outside Poland has to be checked for CoVID before they can cross the border back into Poland.

So most of the Polish drivers are refusing to Leave Poland in the first place because it can take them days to get home, and their employers don't want to pay for them being sat in traffic jams.
Most of the drivers are Polish or former Eastern European types because they are cheaper to hire.

Delivery of goods to and from and through Poland is breaking down. So many companies in Germany are closing production lines.

I think it's called a FUBAR?

Some proper lack of joined up thinking going on here. Glad we are surrounded by the sea and have container ports.

[DimPrawn]

One good thing about Covid-19 is that all the morons and millennials have stopped going on about Brexit and Climate Change for 5 minutes.

[Lost It]

Well I'm definitely not a millennial.

Just a bloke of 60 plus who has a friend in Germany who owns a 1934 Morgan. With a Ford flat head lump in it.

So the unintended consequences are that "someone" thinks anyone passing on good word of mouth intel is a moron. I'd post the photos but I don't give a tulip.

Says a lot about the mentality.

[vetran]

So all those companies that built JIT supply lines across the worlds cheapest countries to save a few quid are now royally screwed.

oh dear what a pity, never mind!

[DodgyAccountant]

One good thing about Covid-19 is that all the morons and millennials have stopped going on about Brexit and Climate Change for 5 minutes.

Just make sure you don't misgender any pronouns.

[Old Greg]

One good thing about Covid-19 is that all the morons and millennials have stopped going on about Brexit and Climate Change for 5 minutes.

The world is just one big Safe Space for you now.

[Old Greg]

Just make sure you don't mxgender any pronouns.

FTFY

[darmstadt]

Well on my way to work today, which happens to be around 300km along the Autobahn there were bugger all cars but a heck of a lot of lorries, even traffic (lorry) jams, going in the opposite direction to Poland and it looked like many were East European as they quite often are. The borders are in fact open for goods vehicles and people who work cross border

[darmstadt]

The Polish border was just shown on TV, there are big queues but only because they're checking all traffic, i.e. as it was prior to Schengen

[Mordac]

Well I'm definitely not a millennial.

Just a bloke of 60 plus who has a friend in Germany who owns a 1934 Morgan. With a Ford flat head lump in it.

So the unintended consequences are that "someone" thinks anyone passing on good word of mouth intel is a moron. I'd post the photos but I don't give a tulip.

Says a lot about the mentality.

To a Morgan owner, that's 'nearly new'...