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First German corona victim Thomas Falk: Died at the place of longing
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More than a million people have died as a result of a corona infection: We have been counting the infections and the dead for half a year.
But the people, faces and fates behind the numbers have often remained pale in public.
That is why we want to introduce 50 people here, representing over a million.
50 people with wives and husbands, children, siblings, grandchildren, girlfriends and friends.
They lived in rich countries where the health system works, and also in those where it costs about thirty times a teacher's monthly salary to place a person in hospital.
In the past six months, a large number of people have died of other diseases, such as cancer and heart attacks.
Far too many die as a result of urban air pollution.
Her death should not seem unimportant in view of the new death that Corona brings.
But something is different about this death: the hundred thousand times death encompasses the whole world.
And it's a different dying, a lonelier one.
Corona means that parting is often omitted: the visit to the death bed, the last hug, the funeral service, which is open to anyone who wants to come.
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