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- Herausgeber: tredition
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
Christoph T. M. Krause lives in Cologne, Germany. 2020 was a fateful year for the European Union and the United Kingdom. In 2016, the United Kingdom decided to leave the EU. This was topped by a worldwide pandemic, which not only cost a lot of money, but also many human lives. Throughout the whole year, Krause wrote letters to his "old" friend Michael in England on a regular basis, where he describes his feelings about his long-standing love for England. His letters are an homage to England, herself part of a union, which has decided to leave her friends in the European Union behind forever. With plaintiveness, Krause realises at the end of the year, that the friendship between the two countries, and especially between their people will never end regardless.
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Christoph T. M. Krause * England - My Dearest
Farewell Letters to an English Friend
Christoph T. M. Krause
England - My Dearest
Farewell Letters to an English Friend
© 2021 Christoph T. M. Krause
Cover Design, Illustration: Christoph T. M. Krause
Autor Christoph T. M. Krause, Heerstr. 394a, EU-D-Berlin.
Translation from German by Anja Harris, EU-D, Hamburg.
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This book is dedicated to Michael Tidbury
England My Dearest
25th March. The End of Yesterday.
Dear Michael,
As always, I am writing to you with plaintiveness.
The year 2020 changed everything, nothing will remain as it was.
What we thought were the most normal things in the world, going out, meeting friends, visiting family, going to the cinema, going for a meal, going on holiday, going on weekend trips etc., is no longer possible. It is also no longer possible to plan for the near future.
A year ago, one would not have thought it possible that such a science fiction scenario would ever become reality.
We knew these scenes from films, but even then, when watching these films, and when quietly thinking that this could one day become reality, no-one really believed it.
It was probably the same before the start of World War One; now we know how that might have felt.
Our forefathers, then “normal” people like us, probably could not imagine that there would be a world war, that their young would go to war and kill each other. Who could have imagined that they would have to risk their young lives down in the trenches.
People could not imagine all that, and even years later, between 1933 and 1939, no-one in Germany and the world foresaw or imagined what was to come their way.
No-one had even the faintest idea, that their neighbours would be deported to Auschwitz from one day to the next. No-one was able to imagine, and it is the same today.
None of us thought it possible, that we would experience standing in front of empty shelves in the supermarket as a result of having previously been emptied by hoarders.
That is what it was like for weeks in March this year. For a long time, toilet paper was short or sold out completely; flour and canned food was also hardly available. These things cause panic, even when trying to remain rational, and it can easily cause us to follow suit when seeing long queues in front of supermarkets and following the introduction of mandatory mask-wearing.
Back then, we smiled at mask wearers when watching reports on Asia, where people where already running around in masks. For us, that was an apocalyptical vision, now it is reality and we do not know, when it will end.
Immunisations have been announced, and by now, there are already several products available, but no-one knows, how and how long they will be effective, whether they are actually effective, and whether we will have to continue to protect ourselves somehow? Will we have to continue wearing masks, maybe forever? What about contact with our friends and family? What will become of us?
Essentially, the risk of a pandemic was always there, but no-one wanted to see or accept it.
29th March.
Dear Michael,
When riding the tram or train, I always have to hold onto something; I never did that with gloves. It is true that I started to disinfect my hands in the last few years, as I was worried and as I have to be careful due to various personal risk factors, but a “normal person” would have never done that, that would have been unimaginable!
Airborne infections, contaminated surfaces, for example due to norovirus or other germs causing diarrhoea at best, have been talked about for a long time as possibly causing more serious infections. And there were many other germs, which could have been a risk to us.
Now, some will say that a healthy immune system should be able to fight off such things. That is most certainly the case, but in the end, no-one was able to really estimate the risk, and now we can see that the risk is real and potentially deadly!
One of the biggest mistakes was made towards the beginning of the pandemic by officially claiming that young people would be more likely to fight off the Covid-19 virus, that they would often not become sick or not have any symptoms at all.
As it turned out, that was not correct. Of course, there were many people, who were able to deal with
