thanks professor,
frankly I had the feeling that Mr Bidens words where more sincere than
how some german politicians acted these days.. worst example is the wannabe next chancellor
but since it's not a politics forum and 'what would you care about german politicians' I'll leave it at that.
It's heartwarming to have sympathies from all over the world in hard times.
and I thank you for that!
But at this point we've been lucky, noone I know has been harmed,
a flooded basement and the possibility of the lights going out or the internet breaking down
for me and that's essentially all the threat so far.
So while I know that people died in that flood..
that knife's dull by now...
let me explain, I try to avoid news as good as I can since maybe 1994 or such
I am affected by news.. bad news, bad mood and such.
Everything important I will get to know eventually (now my wife's taking perfect care of this... if it's important she tells me to read an article, listen to the news or watch the news on tv for that matter/day)
Only thing I fly over is the local newspaper (headlines mostly .. nearly no content really.. just to have an idea what's going on)
anyways.. usually that paper has (... had) one page of obituaries...
since Covid that grew to be up to FIVE pages never less than three
140 deaths are tragic no doubts about it...
compared to the 17000 deaths caused by covid in the affected area alone in the last 20 months it's business as usual almost
(I know.. it shouldn't be.. it MUSTN'T be... can't help it; one gets used to reading about deaths quite too easily IYAM )
I am way more shocked about what's going on in South Africa..
As I heard the news about Pietermaritzburg by accident I rushed home and watched the news ...
An angry pitch-forked mob on the streets that's something to be afraid of.
Again, thanks for asking, thanks for caring!
'sid
PS currently I am more worried about Paul than myself,
mainly because it's harder to judge what's happening literally on another hemisphere, than at my front door