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Getting to this late, but it’s #sarscov2sunday and that means that after a week of heavy-duty reporting, I’m asking you to help me out - help all of us out - by sharing any great idea you’ve seen or had to make this extraordinary period nicer for others or yourself.
This is one I really liked: The Stuttgart opera house called on all professional or amateur musicians in the city to play Beethoven’s Ode to Joy at the open window today at 6pm. #sarscov2sunday
It’s a beautiful choice. It reminds us of the borderless Europe we have built, of the fact that we are all fighting this together even as we are separated once again by national borders and locked into our homes.
I’ve spent the last 16 hours getting back to Europe, my home and per @WHO now „the epicentre of the pandemic“. Via almost empty airports and half-empty planes I‘ve now arrived back in Berlin, a city shutting down schools, clubs, theatres, gyms, cinemas, museums.
Seeing this, it‘s hard not to marvel at the awesome power that 30,000 letters of nucleic acid have unleashed, what a little set of genetic instructions can do to this fragile, interconnected world we‘ve built.
The possibility was always there, of course. Many of us have written about it over the years. And yet, looking back little more than 10 weeks ago, when China announced a cluster of unusual pneumonia cases, it is hard to grasp how fast this tiny virus has changed our world.
