There's an interesting piece in Welt today, by Clare Ott.
So Ms Ott had this date with a guy (new guy by the way the story is told).
Things apparently went ok on this date....she didn't describe the guy in a negative way or suggest he was a poor choice (something of a positive for guys on first dates these days).
Then....a day or two passes, and she felt a 'tad' ill....got tested, and yeah....she had Covid. She calls the guy up....no symptoms, but a day or two later....yeah, he was sick (infected as well).
So she wrote the piece up for Welt, and had to say something about 'Corona guilt'.
A year ago? Oh, this would be chaos emergency 'level-nine' problems and probably not something you wanted to tell in some newspaper opinion piece. There would have been no second date, and you probably would have given it a year of a 'pause'. Today? You just tell the story, and things proceed on.
My wife (German in nature) still has a sharp bit of negativity to utter over how she got the virus 14 months ago....at the office. It may take her another five years to get over that frustration.
Things have changed apparently.
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