In East Germany we had a “flag call” (I haven’t found a good translation). The flag was brought out we had to greet it with the pioneer greeting and it was brought back. It was a bit militaristic. But also only a couple of times a year, special occasions like the beginning of the school year.

You know what went down after daycare became subsidized and widely accessible in my former communist country?

Yeah this, recently they showed a documentary about longterm-effects in young people here. A female teenager, who played Basketball on a professional level, still can’t participate in any type of sports. She’s exhausted by basic every-day things.

I’ve had a clerk in a drug store thank me profusely, yesterday, because I tried cleaning up the mess my pre-school-son made. She said, it’s so rare for people to help out.

Right? Texas a state with 23 million people has 8000 new infections. Germany, a country smaller in size but with over 80 million people has just over 6000 new infections and we’re staying in lockdown.

He’s such a fucking asshole. The Pfizer vaccine was in part paid by German taxpayers. Pfizer’s partner in development is the German company biontech which received government funding for their RNA technique.

In Germany, we had a white German soldier who wanted to pose as an Islamist terrorist among the refugees to turn people against them.

When my father was small he angrily pooped in his bed, because he wasn’t allowed at a family party. But he was like 3 or 4 and his critical thinking was lacking.

Yeah, he is a prime example of what we in Germany describe as someone walking/standing around with razor blades under their arms.

Or, someone told him that the CEO and founder of biontech who worked together with Pfizer on developing this vaccine (with German tax dollars) is a brown person.

I’ve passed along my love of reading on the toilet to my son. He’s 4 takes a picture book with him, makes up a story and after having finished his book, yells for me to bring him another.

My church in Germany did Easter by zoom. I’m part of an orthodox church and Easter is of course the most important holiday. It involves a week of twice a day readings, singing and praying and a night time reading of the Apocalypse. Seriously, it is all church every day and we found a way to do this.

It’s also not like these companies had ample warning. The voluntary mandate always had the looming “threat” of becoming mandatory, if nothing changed. Or they probably thought they’d be able to lobby their way out of it. 

Yeah, we really love Wolf names. My father is a Wolfgang, I had a teacher called Wolfram and my colleagues son is a Wolf.

That made me so happy. My son was just diagnosed with stuttering. I was kind of hoping it was just developmental.

Poly-syllable words that are not “beautiful” and “tremendous”! 

Did he really say ‘total war’?! Isn’t that phrase as loaded as it would be here in Germany?

But it’s not a “what-a-worthy-adversay” scared, it’s a “holy-shit-the-toddler-is-in-the-knives-drawer” scared.

I don’t want to respond directly to the troll. But looking at Europe we’re on our second wave, the US is on its third. We had a summer without significant numbers of cases. So, with some semblance of leadership lower numbers would definitely have been possible.

I have a friend from Cameroon who had a back-alley abortion just ten years ago.