Since March 6th I am working in home office. since March 16th the majority of the US is on "stay at home" lock down. Only essential workers like doctors, nurses, grocery,... are serving the country while since now ~90K people have died from the Corona Virus. The real estimate is higher than what officially has been counted. This virus is deadlier than the normal flu were we have regular vaccination. 36.5M have lost their jobs and the end is not really near. We will see more deaths accumulating over the next half year and jobs will not be back nor will work be the same as it has been in the past. As the US is easing up on the "stay at home" and tries to bring back the economy we will just have to see how everything will try to come back to normal or at least what we will then describe as the new normal. The colored are fearful to wear masks as they are still perceived as criminals by a wide array of white people in the US. Our current president is the worst of all without empathy for the people. He was voted into office 2016 and he has retracted from the Global Climate Accord, he has revoked clean air and water directives. He re-started coal mining for energy generation. He finds it well to gather the uneducated hillbillies and touts Make America great again. This as his main motive has created an economic war between China and Europe in which the US will clearly loose. The CoVid19 pandemic has not helped either as the US has the most cases and death to report compared to any other country. The Virus started in China in Dec. 2019 and they closed down Wuhan, the city in which the virus started to spread. Some argue the Chinese were not as forthcoming in alarming the world but eventually they did and the world was for first just watching, forgetting that people are moving more than ever around the world. How many flights across the world do we have each day? 230K flights per pre-CoVid, now we are at 70K were most are logistic flights w/o passengers. And if I just look back that in 2019 I was 245 days traveling, visiting 27 cities in 10 different countries and this year nothing at all except my last travel to China is January.
Well it will definitely be a different world.
QI, Ezy and Flora will take it as it comes and they will only remember a little as they grow older and start to form their own family.
Berlin Family update:
Liza and David have some of their own struggles. Bella and Paul their kids are soooo sweet
Valerie and Friedel are engaged and have a new born Emil
Timothy and Katy are living on their own with more engagement to Katy's family and have two children Arthur and Ahron
Benny and Sylvia live still across the road next to mother and grandpa Walther. Mila their daughter is the sweetest and plays the "tongue out" game during the WhatsApp calls. Sylvia is expecting in a couple of month and the name chosen to date is Brandon
