Last night on the radio
experts expressed their hope for herd immunity once the infection rate has reached 50, 60, 70 percent. In the meantime they trust, they say, in the responsible conduct of each individual to ensure the protection of the most vulnerable. I am torn. Is it admirable, this faith in our civility? Or just naïve? These days, there are so many things we seem to just want to wait out. Bruised by our atrocious history we Germans shy away from severe measures. We don’t curtail (any kind of) freedom lightly, sometimes at our peril. ©2020 Anna Witte
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A little about myself:Hello there and thank you for visiting my website! I have lived in Spain, Mexico, France and the United States, but now make my home in Germany. I have a Ph.D. in Literary Studies and a Master's in TESOL, and have published several books for children, among them El Loro Tico Tango and El Fandango de Lola, a 2012 Ezra Jack Keats Honor Book. As a writer and an artist I'm in constant conversation with my own anxious mind even as I celebrate the joyful possibilities of our crazy, incomprehensible world. Archives
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