Hatschi and Co. - Trade fair cancellations until October 2020 under the sign of health
France made a start with an arbitrarily proclaimed 5000, after it was first only about stadium sizes like uninteresting football matches, Spahn clearly undercut with 1000. What would have seemed fun(h)nical to us in the past, when politics interferes with the 'bread and games' principle of the rulers, we find perfectly fine with the normal-exceptional state that has prevailed in Turkey for years and about which no one asks. With a virus that, according to the WHO, is below the level of the flu in terms of risk, we even nod happily at not having to get together with drippy people and listen to loud noises.
But surely there is a secret reason that we just haven't uncovered yet ...
Here is the result of the investigative research
Jericho Spahn has achieved his goal. He is the most respected politician, the world listens to him. Thanks to his ambitious proposals, all the organisers have been persuaded to cancel the trade fairs and micro-events they had been planning for months. After the Hanover Fair, the Leipzig Allerlei (i.e. book fair, antiquarian book fair, Manga ComicCon and fair of disguise - it must have been hard not to see overweight men dressed as unicorns galloping through the halls) also keeps its doors closed. For an increase in the broadcasting contribution of only 5,486 euros a month per contributor, this is why ARD offers to organise a virtual book fair with exciting MAZ contributions from the archives of the last 120 years.
These details put our reporters on the right track
It is about people's play instinct, which is to be suppressed. In October, the largest games fair is planned in Essen, which is to fall victim to the health mania. One more reason to take a closer look at board games.
The classic 'Mensch ärgere dich nicht' can no longer be called a parlour game for young and old. At the beginning of the political correctness debate in 1982, the law enforcers still missed the dangerous game because instead of gender-specific designation 'Mensch' was supposed to suggest that it was harmless. On closer inspection of the racist game figures (different colours), this can no longer be overlooked.
But worst of all: Dice - a game of chance as it is written in the book, which must be indexed immediately. In addition, there is a negative word in the title: 'not'; inconspicuously at the end of the name so that it doesn't attract attention - that's also no longer possible today.
The strategy game 'Risiko', which was threatened with being banned at the time, was able to avoid its ban by replacing the concrete game tasks 'destroy the blue armies' and 'conquer two continents' with National Socialist propaganda terms 'liberate the world' and 'defend a country you do not own'. Here, too, the designation strategy game may no longer be used, since dice as well as cards are used and it is thus clearly a game of chance.
Only chess may now be called a strategy game. The international chess community was able to avert a rule change according to which the choice of playing pieces (which of course may no longer be black and white) may no longer allow manipulation by the building player - oh excuse me: the building person - by hiding two pawns (which are now called agronically active) behind the back and presenting them to the opponent/counterplaying person in the closed hand for selection.