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Berlin, 11. Juli 2020

Beyond the Milky Way, a Galactic Wall | nytimes [dot] com | Link

The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View | quantamagazine [dot] org | Link

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COVID-19/USA | Coronavirus Case Numbers Surge in Texas and Arizona | By David Wallace-Wells | nymag [dot] com | Link

(...) The rest of the country could have learned some lessons from New York, as New York could have learned its own lessons from earlier outbreaks elsewhere in the world — from the horrors of Lombardy but also the models of Taiwan and Japan, among others, not to mention the mixed but illuminating experience of Wuhan itself. But while many parts of the country did rush into lockdown — given how fraught pandemic politics are now, with the caseload worsening, that fact seems more improbable by the day — almost none took the the opportunity, and time, offered by those lockdowns to actually build out any kind of institutional prophylaxis against the disease: scaling up a mass-testing regime, hiring into contact-tracing programs, descending on nursing homes with public-health personnel and PPE, and enforcing around those most vulnerable communities something like a legitimate, protective quarantine. Hardly any leaders even floated mask-wearing advisories until they were themselves neck-deep in a local pandemic crisis. They could not learn from others, only taking actions like these in a sort of last-gasp panic state. (...) — David Wallace-Wells

Berlin, 2. Juli 2020

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Berlin, 28. Juni 2020

Excellent music | part one:

John Cage | Mode Records [mode 44] | vergrössern

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Berlin, 26. Juni 2020

Upton Sinclair | The Jungle [1906] | vergrössern

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Ausbeutung, Menschenrechtsverletzungen, unzureichender Gesundheits- und Arbeitsschutz:

Rumänischer Arbeiter [in Deutschland]: 'Nachts hörte ich Kollegen weinen' | dw [dot] com | Link

Berlin, 20. Juni 2020

USA 1906 | Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906) | 'The Jungle' tells the story of Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in Chicago’s meatpacking district determined to live out the American dream/the American nightmare.

Germany 2020 | Die große Schweinerei bei Tönnies | dw [dot] com | Link

Berlin, 15. Juni 2020

Interview: Steve Reich Composes During The Coronavirus Crisis | capradio [dot] org | Link

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(...) Die ganze Welt ist nur ein Hospital,
Wo Menschen von unzählbar großer Zahl
Und auch die Kinder in der Wiegen
An Krankheit hart darniederliegen. (...)

J. S. Bach | Cantatas BWV 25 | webdocs [dot] cs [dot] ualberta [dot] ca | Link

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New York's Rising Tides: Climate Inequality and Sandy's Legacy | By Willa Glickman | nybooks [dot] com | Link

Berlin, 12. Juni 2020

Racist Violence Can’t Be Separated From the Violence of Neoliberal Capitalism | By Henry A. Giroux | truthout [dot] org | Link

(...) In the age of the pandemic crisis, inequality is a plague normalized through the discourses of fear, unchecked individualism, the demonization of others, and the relentless investment in greed and self-interest. The furtherance of social and economic inequality and the expanding discourses of precarity, anxiety and fear have become central organizing principles of governance. (...)

(...) Under neoliberalism’s disimagination machine, individual responsibility is coupled with an ethos of greed, avarice and personal gain. One consequence is the tearing up of social solidarities, public values and an almost pathological disdain for democracy. This radical form of privatization is also a powerful force for the rise of fascist politics because it depoliticizes individuals, immerses them in the logic of social Darwinism, and makes them susceptible to the dehumanization of those considered a threat or disposable. (...)

(...) Most importantly, neoliberal individualization personalizes power, creating a depoliticized subject whose only obligation as a citizen is defined by consuming and living in a world free from ethical and social responsibilities. In many ways, it does not just empty politics of any substance, it destroys its emancipatory prospects. (...) — Henry A. Giroux

Berlin, 10. Juni 2020

The World Reopens, Despite Skyrocketing Coronavirus Cases | nytimes [dot] com | Link

(...) Governments, forced to choose between watching citizens die of the virus or watching them die of hunger, are loosening lockdowns. 'We go to bed without eating, giving nothing to our children,' said María Camila Salazar, 22, a mother of two who lives in Medellín, Colombia's second-largest city. Ms. Salazar and her family, like millions across Latin America, collect cardboard, glass and plastic for a living, selling it by the kilo. Their buyers closed amid the country's lockdown (...)

Berlin, 7. Juni 2020

Michael Gordon | Anonymous Man [Cantaloupe Music, 2020] | vergrössern

michaelgordonmusic [dot] com | Link

Anonymous Man | vimeo [dot] com | Link

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Berlin, 4. Juni 2020

Vertebrates on the brink as indicators of biological annihilation and the sixth mass extinction | pnas [dot] org | Link

[Vertebrates = animals that have a backbone inside their body]

Berlin, 3. Juni 2020

As the pandemic continues to accelerate, so does the deforestation of the Amazon | opendemocracy [dot] net | Link

Berlin, 2. Juni 2020

'America’s Moment of Reckoning': Cornel West Says Nationwide Uprising Is Sign of 'Empire Imploding' | democracynow [dot] org | Link

An American Uprising | By David Remnic | newyorker [dot] com | Link

Two Mutual Aid Network Founders on Helping Neighbors | All Of It | wnyc [dot] org | Link

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Power – The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 3. | vergrössern

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Revolts belong to history. But, in a certain way, they escape from it. The impulse by which a single individual, a group, a minority, or an entire people says, 'I will no longer obey,' and throws the risk of their life in the face of an authority they consider unjust seems to me to be something irreducible. Because no authority is capable of making it utterly impossible (...) — Power. The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 3, Useless to revolt? [1979] p. 449-453

Berlin, 30. Mai 2020

(...) Then there is the thick fog of misinformation. Blame China! Blame the World Health Organization! Blame Barack Obama! As the media critic Jay Rosen, a professor of journalism at New York University, has argued, Trump’s plan 'is to have no plan, to let daily deaths between one and three thousand become a normal thing, and then to create massive confusion about who is responsible … by 'flooding the zone with shit,' Steve Bannon's phrase for overwhelming the system with disinformation, distraction, and denial.' (...) — COVID-19/USA | It's Official: 100,000 Are Dead of Covid-19 in America, and Their Blood Is on Trump's Hands | By Mehdi Hasan | theintercept [dot] com | Link

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Florida, Georgia and Trump Are Lying. COVID Is Far From Over. | By William Rivers Pitt | truthout [dot] org | Link

[COVID-19 doesn't care about your opinions regarding its threat. It can come into your house, fluff your pillows, breathe on your toothbrush, lick your doorknobs, rearrange your furniture and settle down for a nice long visit before you even know it's there.]

Berlin, 28. Mai 2020

COVID-19/India | Pandemic Highlights India’s Class Divide as 1.3 Billion Lock Down | By Amy Goodman & Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now! | truthout [dot] org | Link

COVID-19/Brazil | Brazil’s Reckless COVID Response Threatens Indigenous Survival | By Amy Goodman & Juan González, Democracy Now! | truthout [dot] org | Link

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COVID-19/USA | One Hundred Thousand Dead From The Coronavirus. What Happens Next? | theintercept [dot] com | Link

Government COVID-19 failures are unsurprising—the system is built to fail. | Center for Constitutional Rights | ccrjustice [dot] org | Link

Berlin, 24. Mai 2020

COVID-19/New York Times Front Page | May 24, 2020 | Link [PDF]

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Homelessness Could Rise 45 Percent in One Year Due to Unemployment Crisis | truthout [dot] org | Link

How the Street Homeless of New York ‘Shelter in Place’ | By Phil Penman | The New York Review of Books | nybooks [dot] com | Link

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COVID-19/Lidl (ruthless and irresponsible German company)

Lidl in den USA: 'Vielleicht muss erst einer sterben' | Wirtschaft | DW | Link

NY Grocery Store Workers Say Parent Company (Lidl) Is Putting Their Lives At Risk | gothamist [dot] com | Link

Berlin, 22. Mai 2020

Weltweit verschwinden von der Erde rund zehn Millionen Hektar Wald pro Jahr.

FAO/Vereinten Nationen UNEP | Globaler Waldzustandsbericht 2020 | unenvironment [dot] org | Link

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Climate Change Multiplies the Threats of Infectious Diseases | By Daniel Ross | truthout [dot] org | Link

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Berlin, 14. Mai 2020

Michael Gordon | Every Stop On The F Train | michaelgordonmusic [dot] com | Link

Michael Gordon | Last Stop on the F Train — The Bang on a Can Archives | canland [dot] org | Link

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Telling the Stories of the Dead Is Essential Work | newyorker [dot] com | Link

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Our Uniquely American Virus - The American Prospect | By Nick Hanauer | prospect [dot] org | Link

[America’s ability to contain the coronavirus has been compromised by decades of neoliberal ideology. And it is literally killing us.]

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Deforestation and Monoculture Farming Spread COVID-19 and Other Diseases | truthout [dot] org | Link

Berlin, 12. Mai 2020

Trump Death Clock | trumpdeathclock.com | Link

Trump’s covid-19 inaction killed Americans. Here’s a counter that shows how many. | medium [dot] com | Link

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'COVID-19 Has Been Racialized': Black Scholar Jill Nelson Arrested for Chalking 'Trump = Plague' | democracynow [dot] org | Link

'Economic Viruses Were Already at Work Before Coronavirus': A Conversation with Dr. Cornel West | The Takeaway | wnycstudios [dot] org | Link

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Calling for a COVID-19 One Health Research Coalition | thelancet [dot] com | Link

Berlin, 5. Mai 2020

Abwrackprämie stoppen | Fridays for Future [Autogipfel] | fridaysforfuture [dot] de | Link

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NY/Homeless | The Homeless Will Soon Be Forced Out Of The Subway Overnight. Where Will They Go? | gothamist [dot] com | Link

We connect homeless New Yorkers to people in power to uplift their voices. | human [dot] nyc | Link

Berlin, 4. Mai 2020

CanLand - The Bang on a Can Archives | canland [dot] org | Link

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Berlin, 3. Mai 2020

NY/global village | Bang on a Can Marathon 2020 | Live Online | youtube [dot] com | Link [from 3pm-9pm ET]

[The Marathon is FREE to stream, but you can buy tickets, now or at any point during the show, to support the artists, composers, and staff that make this all possible.]

Virus Pushes the Bang on a Can Marathon Online | nytimes [dot] com | Link

Berlin, 2. Mai 2020

COVID-19/NY | Stark Symbol of Pandemic in N.Y.: Homeless People Huddled on the Subway | nytimes [dot] com | Link

Mayor Bill de Blasio Says NYC Can't Afford Hotel Rooms for the Homeless | theintercept [dot] com | Link

Mapping the Sidewalks of New York City for Social Distancing | newyorker [dot] com | Link

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COVID-19/California | [...Yes, we see the discourse on 'the health of the nation' slide into another on 'the health of the economy.' But Social Darwinism has taken hold in some circles, especially in the discussions of 'herd immunity.' Some argue that the economy must be reinvigorated even if the virus is left more free to circulate, threatening the lives of the most vulnerable people. That those who are most likely to survive the virus (imagined as young, equipped with health care from the onset of life, able-bodied, white and without pre-existing conditions) would go back to work and the university while the rest of us stay sheltering in place rests on a particular kind of lie. — Judith Butler]

Judith Butler: Mourning Is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and Its Disparities | truthout [dot] org | Link

Berlin, 30. April 2020

Jon Hassell Fund | gofundme [dot] com | Link

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A CALL BY MUSICAL ARTISTS FOR BASIC FAIRNESS IN THE DIGITAL MARKETPLACE | actionnetwork [dot] org | Link

Berlin, 29. April 2020

Can artists find a silver lining in the cloud of COVID-19? Peter Sellars is looking | latimes [dot] com | Link

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Covid-19/USA | Coronavirus Has Killed More Americans Than Vietnam War | theintercept [dot] com | Link

Take Care of Yourself and Your Family. Do Not Listen to the President. | By William Rivers Pitt | truthout [dot] org | Link

Berlin, 27. April 2020

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Berlin, 17. April 2020

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Berlin, 14. April 2020

NYC | Two Weeks as an NYC Nurse During Coronavirus Pandemic | theintercept [dot] com | Link

Detroit | Wash Your Hands? Despite Pandemic, Thousands Still Have No Water in Detroit, a Coronavirus Hot Spot | democracynow [dot] org | Link

COVID-19 Entwicklung, Deutschland, Berlin und Frankreich [Tabelle] | Quelle: COVID-19 information - JHU HUB - Johns-Hopkins-Universität | Berliner Morgenpost - Coronavirus-Monitor | [pdf] · download [28 KB]

Berlin, 13. April 2020

Minimum-Wage Workers Are Dying to Keep Everyone Else Alive. They Deserve More. | By William Rivers Pitt | truthout [dot] org | Link

The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Exposing the Plague of Neoliberalism | By Henry A. Giroux | truthout [dot] org | Link

Berlin, 11. April 2020

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Berlin, 7. April 2020

How to Make Your own Face Covering | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | youtube [dot] com | Link

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Berlin, 6. April 2020

We face a new virus with uncertain epidemiology that threatens illness, death, and disruption on an enormous scale. Precisely because every commentator sees the pandemic through the lens of his or her preoccupations, it is exactly the right time to think critically, to place the pandemic in context, to pose questions. The clearest questions are political. What should the public demand of their governments?

— New Pathogen, Old Politics | By Alex de Waal | bostonreview [dot] net | Link

Berlin, 5. April 2020

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Closing the Distance: New Spaces for Community | BOMB Magazine | Link

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Stay home. Stay safe. Save lives.

Berlin, 4. April 2020

New Music Solidarity Fund | New Music USA | newmusicusa [dot] org | Link

Resources and Emergency Grants for Artists Affected by COVID-19 | Cultured Magazine | Link

New York Foundation for the Arts | nyfa [dot] org | Link

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How the Coronavirus Will Transform the Art World | vulture [dot] com | Link

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Berlin, 3. April 2020

The New York Times | Free E-Book: Answers to Your Coronavirus Questions | nytimes [dot] com | Link

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Comment les masques stoppent les virus | lefigaro [dot] fr | Link

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Berlin, 1. April 2020

Alone Against the Virus | Decades of neoliberal austerity will make it harder to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, more than ever, we must rebuild our social safety net and forge a New Deal for public health. | By Amy Kapczynsky, Gregg Gonslves | bostonreview [dot] net | Link

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Berlin, 31. März 2020

Der Staat/die Regierung hat die Pflicht, seine Bürger bestmöglich zu schützen. [Grundrecht auf Sicherheit]

· Sofortige Bereitstellung von Schutzmasken [FFP2 und FFP3] für jeden Bürger.

· Sofortige Bereitstellung von Schutzmasken [FFP2 und FFP3] für Klinik-Personal, Krankenpfleger, Altenpfleger, Notfallsanitäter, Labor-Personal.

· Sofortige Bereitstellung von Schutzmasken [FFP2 und FFP3] für die Polizei und Sicherheits-Personal.

· Sofortige Bereitstellung von Schutzmasken [FFP2 und FFP3] für Verkäuferinnen und Verkäufer.

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Berlin, 30. März 2020

Coronavirus Resource Kit | google docs | Link

COVID-19 & Freelance Artists | working gathering teaching online | covid19freelanceartistresource [dot] wordpress [dot] com | Link

CREO Manual - resource for event organisers responding to Coronavirus | google docs | Link

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E-Mail an Frau Dilek Kalayci, Senatorin für Gesundheit, Pflege und Gleichstellung, Senat/Berlin [Betreff: Kritik, COVID-19-Krise/Senat in Berlin] | [pdf] · download [28 KB]

Forderung: Sofortige Bereitstellung von Atemmasken für die Bevölkerung. Jeder einzelne Bürger hat ein Recht auf Atemmasken zum Schutz seiner Gesundheit und zum Schutz der Gesundheit anderer Menschen.

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Altenpfleger, Verkäuferinnen und Verkäufer, Krankenhauspersonal: Viele Beschäftigte, die derzeit das System aufrechterhalten, müssen Sozialleistungen in Anspruch nehmen. | zeit [dot] de [coronavirus pandemie liveblog] | Link

[... Demnach stockten in der Altenpflege mehr als 17.000 Beschäftigte auf, ein Zehntel davon in Vollzeitbeschäftigung. Auch mehr als 1.600 Beschäftigte in der Krankenpflege oder in Rettungsdiensten verdienten mit ihrer Vollzeitstelle nicht genug, um Wohnung und Lebensunterhalt für ihre Familie zu bezahlen. Bundesweit waren 2018 etwa 200.000 Vollzeitbeschäftigte auf solche Hilfen angewiesen, ein Drittel davon Auszubildende.]

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COVID-19 in Europe: the Italian lesson. | We urge all countries to acknowledge the Italian lesson and to immediately adopt very restrictive measures to limit viral diffusion, ensure appropriate health-system response, and reduce mortality, which appears to be higher than previously estimated, with a crude case-fatality rate of almost 4%.

— The Lancet | Published Online, March 23, 2020 | thelancet [dot] com | Link [full text]

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Berlin, 29. März 2020

Antwort E-Mail von Benedikt Lux, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Mitglied des Abgeordnetenhauses/Berlin [Betreff: Kritik, COVID-19-Krise] | [pdf] · download [16 KB]

E-Mail an Herrn Benedikt Lux, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Mitglied des Abgeordnetenhauses/Berlin [Betreff: Kritik, COVID-19-Krise] | [pdf] · download [20 KB]

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E-Mail an Herrn Jens Spahn/Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (BMG) | [Betreff: Kritik, COVID-19-Krise/Bundesgesundheitsministerium] | [pdf] · download [28 KB]

Aus dem E-Mail-Text:

(...) Die jetzt offensichtlichen, extrem schlechten Zustände im Gesundheitswesen Deutschlands sind unerträglich. Daß in einem angeblich so fortschrittlichen, aufgeklärten und reichen Land, in einer globalen Gesundheitskrise nun die Kliniken die Bevölkerung und Unternehmen um Materialspenden bitten müssen ist ein Skandal.

Die Ignoranz und Arroganz der Regierung hat diese Krise unnötig verschärft. Diese Inkompetenz der Politik wird Leben kosten. Ich hoffe Ihnen und Ihrer Behörde wird das endlich bewusst und Sie erhöhen endlich das Tempo und die Geldmittel um eine solche globale Katastrophe adäquat zu bewältigen. (...)

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Berlin, 28. März 2020

E-Mail an die BVG, Frau/Herr Moldenhauer (BVG) | [Betreff: Desinfektion, S-Bahn, U-Bahn, Bus] | [pdf] · download [24 KB]

Antwort E-Mail von Frau/Herr Moldenhauer (BVG) | [Betreff: Desinfektion, S-Bahn, U-Bahn, Bus] | [pdf] · download [24 KB]

E-Mail an die BVG, Herr Dr. Rolf Erfurt (BVG) | [Betreff: Desinfektion, S-Bahn, U-Bahn, Bus] | [pdf] · download [24 KB]

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E-Mail an die Redaktion des Tagesspiegel Berlin | [Betreff: Kritik an ihrer COVID-19 Berichterstattung] | [pdf] · download [40 KB]

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Berlin, 27. März 2020

Pandemic Journal | Sue Halpern, Michael S. Roth, Ben Mauk, Martin Filler, and Eula Biss, et al. | The New York Review of Books | nybooks [dot] com | Link

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(...) Globally, many people are afraid, angry, uncertain, and without confidence in their national leadership. (...)

It is imperative that the global community takes advantage of this spirit of cooperation to avoid repeating this error in more vulnerable countries. (...)

— The Lancet | VOLUME 395, ISSUE 10229, P1011, March 28, 2020 (Editorial) | COVID-19: learning from experience | thelancet [dot] com | Link [full text]

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Berlin, 26. März 2020

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Berlin, 25. März 2020

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Berlin, 24. März 2020

Hilfen für Freiberufler und Künstler während des #Corona-Shutdowns - Online-Petition [von David Erler] | openpetition [dot] de | Link

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Berlin, 23. März 2020

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Berlin, 22. März 2020

CLOV: Well .. .sooner or later I'd start to stink.
HAMM : You stink already. The whole place stinks of corpses.
CLOV: The whole universe.

— Samuel Beckett, Endgame (1958)

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Berlin, 21. März 2020

Es ist lästig, bei offenkundigen Dingen noch Beweise beizubringen. — Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

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Berlin, 20. März 2020

[“Much of the global community is not yet ready for COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]”. This is arguably one of the most resonating phrases in the Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019, released publicly on Feb 28, 2020. Major transmission hotspots were brought under control in China, but subsequently others sprouted across the globe. Since late February, 2020, the daily number of new cases has been higher in other parts of the world. New major epicentres have established in South Korea, Japan, Iran, and Italy. By mid-March, 2020, Europe was declared the world's major epicentre.

China implemented extraordinary public health measures at great socioeconomic cost, moving swiftly and decisively to ensure early identification of cases, prompt laboratory testing, facility-based isolation of all cases, contact tracing, and quarantine. In the community, mobility was at a near standstill, with social distancing implemented at a grand scale. China's massive transmission rates called for extreme measures, and the measures were successful.

The call is now for the rest of the world to ramp up its response, but regrettably, it is evident that the global community is not ready in its mindset or capacity.]

— thelancet [dot] com | Link [full text]

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Berlin, 17. März 2020

Stay at home — rester à la maison !

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Berlin, 16. März 2020

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Berlin, 2. März 2020

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Berlin, 23. Februar 2020

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Berlin, 21. Februar 2020

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Berlin, 19. Februar 2020

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Berlin, 16. Februar 2020

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Berlin, 3. Februar 2020

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Berlin, 2. Februar 2020

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Berlin, 16. Januar 2020

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Berlin, 14. Januar 2020

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Berlin, 13. Januar 2020

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Berlin, 12. Januar 2020

(...) You'll walk that floor - and wear out your shoes
When you feel your heart break - you're learnin' the blues (...)

— Learnin' the Blues [Song written by Dolores 'Vicki' Silvers; recorded by Frank Sinatra with Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra in 1955]

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Shoes [dignity of shoes]

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Berlin, 9. Januar 2020

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Berlin, 1. Januar 2020

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements. — Henry D. Thoreau, Walking (first published in the 'Atlantic Monthly' in 1862)

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Shoes [dignity of shoes]

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