First, meanwhile and last in Corona house arrest

At first

you feel strangely light and don't know what to do with it. You don't feel the gravity and consequences, nor the magnitude of the possibilities of house arrest. Then you start to fidget, here and there you fidget about this and that, some unnecessary things and some things you should have done recently. It feels good, but then you get to a point where all the domestic chores are done. Then, with all this time, why don't you read books, why don't you learn to play the guitar? You're completely overwhelmed by all this time! You take refuge in your best qualities. Cooking, eating, pouring, serving - only to your best, only friend who secretly comes by! Drinking, viva! Put on the old records. In short, consumption.

But then sometimes the perspective shifts and you see the birds from the kitchen window at dawn like never before, and study their social behavior. You can actually see this in the far north, just like in the Mediterranean south: seagulls and pigeons are awake early and swagger up and down the streets, positioning and grouping themselves strategically.

Meanwhile

the music starts playing outside and people look confused from their balconies. Inside the children are screaming, outside dogs are still barking. The inside and the outside. When you go outside once a day, you go shopping. It happens that you walk around corners without a destination, stop and linger in places, look up a wall and see flowers. Or when you are doing a sporting activity alone. Outdoors, all social behavior is turned upside down. You greet or wave or nod awkwardly but cordially to everyone at the prescribed safe distance. You move around people like magnetic antipoles. In fact, not only the wide world outside, but also the narrower world inside has suddenly changed completely. After all, what great changes and humanity can you not sense inside?

At last

it's all over. You wake up earlier than you thought. It's as if you went to bed too late and fell asleep with the lights on. Not tired and not fit, you will start your post-corona life, back into real social and working life. But you will see life with different eyes. You will meet your colleagues with almost nervous excitement. How much you have learned to appreciate them! Then you will have to deal with damage and new challenges, and you will face them with an unprecedented humility. You can look forward to all the new perspectives of all these people on this earth.

In Austria and Switzerland, there have been de facto curfews or "exit restrictions" since the weekend, similar to those in Italy. In many other European countries too. Not yet in Germany, but it would be almost strange if it stayed that way. Almost all members of the PG core team are now at home, on official orders with the rest of the country, or in semi-voluntary domestic isolation due to visits to so-called neighboring "crisis regions", which can hardly be distinguished from each other. Many readers will feel the same way. We wish you all the best and that you get through the first and the meantime calmly. At some point, the last will come and then we'll all meet up, hopefully only a little hungover, while skiing.

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First, meanwhile and last in Corona house arrest

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