At the moment it's tough to get any appointments. Depends on a lot of things, it's a bit wild wild west whether you get one or not. My parents, around 60, did get one last week, although for other reasons than their age. Me, I'm now on this waiting list and expect to get my first appointment at the end of June, we will see, but I don't really care
that much. I'm an introvert anyway, work a lot and now exclusively from home anyway, so... fine. But the children... nobody seems to care about them.
The promise here for teenagers is september. I also think it would be better to give the vaccinations to the most vulnerable in other countries first before vaccinating healthy teenagers and children, but in any case I think Germany is not thinking about that age group at all. In my opinion it would be fair to let them go to school after a negative test, and then allow them to meet in small groups in the afternoon, which hasn't been possible for most of the last 14 months now. That is such a long time when you are young, the younger you are, the longer this is.
I know these quick tests aren't perfect. But if you're vaccinated it's not 100% sure you cannot transmit the virus anymore, either. They are now opening the beer gardens... fine, I can totally see the economic necessity. Despite the financial support about 50% of the shops in my area have closed (small shops, probably already on the brink of closing before corona...) But children don't need beer gardens.
Also they do now want to set up a program for the children which includes private lessons and lessons on Saturdays, in the holidays and the later afternoon so that they can catch up what they didn't learn at school during the last year... Meant well, but effectively, in my eyes, that means punishing them for not being allowed to go to school.
It's not like they didn't have to learn anything during the last year. They just had to do it on their own at home, which probably often wasn't as effective.
We will see what actually happens and when... maybe things will happen differently anyway.
True, that's very good, although in my area nothing's changing much so far, we never had such high numbers anyway. But in any case that's pleasant, yes.