Also the "honor system" for quarantine. Also the closure of museums (airy, 25% capacity, everyone masked) but not department stores (crowded, many ignoring mask rules). Also the fact that my art-supply store in Berlin had to cordon off the half of its inventory that wasn't on the "essential" list, so some paint yes, some paint no. Also the refusal to confront the anti-vaxxers (police complicity, etc). Also the very public promises they knew they probably couldn't keep (Christmas is big in Germany).

I had a pretty high opinion of German government competence, Berlin-specific dramas notwithstanding, before the pandemic. I now have a very, very low one.