The Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz has recently received a lot of criticism for his appearance at a rally in the state of Vorarlberg which saw him mingling with the crowd, disregarding social distancing measures. The very same person is responsible for a fraught social climate brought on by his highly televised and publicized rhetoric, once stating "Soon everyone of us will know someone who has passed away from Covid-19.".
His admin also oversaw the conception of untransparently and misleading worded laws for the shelter in place period, leading to much confusion - illegitimate fines issued by overly eager police officers; people believing they cannot even visit their family or friends in their private homes (it never was illegal, the laws were worded in a way that could've easily been interpreted that way); coining the phrase of keeping a distance about the size of one baby elephant (wherever the fuck he got that from).
Whilst people have been shunning social contacts, trying to figure out how many baby elephants would fit into the gap between them and the next person, have been laid-off and deemed "inessential to the system" and have generally lived in an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty, no doubt exacerbated by the baffling statements of this guy, he apparently seems to live in a parallel universe.
