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4. Now, Germany, too
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 08:31 PM
Sep 2020

My wife just returned from the village where her mom lives. Some "not-on-most-maps" town no one has ever heard of. Just last week, a couple of very minor soccer teams had matches in the area, and went out partying in this town. No masks, of course. Including outlying areas and a few farms, it has maybe 35,000 people. The place suddenly reported an explosion of new Covid-19 cases. I have lots I have to do all over the place in the next month, and I know my wife is going to freak out about it. Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt, Zürich. Spain is practically walled off again. Germany is having maskless Trump rallies (for real!) and will surely overwhelm the health care system (again) within ten days. I wonder where there is left to go? Grand Fenwick?

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