Dear friends of piano music,

today I'm doing something quite absurd: I'm writing something positive about Corona. No, don't worry, I didn't suddenly take this disgusting virus into my heart, on the contrary. But now that I'm sick, I realize it's the first time since the pandemic broke out. The children are back in school and kindergarten, and the various viruses and bacilli that are there are already backing up with us. I cough, I sneeze, I sniff, I'm half deaf. The pathogens seem to feel particularly comfortable with me. they really let off steam. Therefore, there is no video recording today either, because no one can be expected to watch me cough and blow my nose. Yes, I did not miss that during the time of social isolation ...... But there is still something positive to report in connection with the disgusting virus, and I am downright proud of that. When my parents were vaccinated, it was a bureaucratic show of strength that was unparalleled in absurdity. They waited for weeks for a letter saying that they were now eligible to register at a vaccination center. Then they tried for weeks to register there using a complicated online process. When they finally succeeded, they only had to wait a few more weeks for this appointment. Then they had to fill out forms, and the staff there had to fill out forms too, lots and lots. And quite analogue, unbelievable mountains of paper that have to be destroyed again at some point. Not that many people could be vaccinated because of the filling out of the forms. Just give an injection, everyone can do that. Then of course it was disinfected, those who wanted to be vaccinated, the forms, the pens. Fever measured a few times. But in the end there was the longed-for injection as a reward.

I have now been vaccinated with AstraZeneca, and it went like this: I read in the newspaper about a vaccination appointment in the church. You just had to write an email and then you could go. It was 34 degrees in the shade, but people stood in line in the midday sun without complaint. A brief consultation with a doctor, then the syringe, and then actually an ice cream as a reward ...... I thought it was great, unbelievably great. I was vaccinated right at the baptismal font where my two children were baptized. So sometimes we can do it differently, so there is still cause for hope.

Kerstin

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