News video: Coronavirus – mother writes funny letter to party neighbors

Celebrating despite the coronavirus: Because she was annoyed by the parties in the house despite the contact restrictions, a mother hung up a letter that had washed herself.

What happened?

Germany is in the "lockdown light" which, even with a very generous interpretation, is still very, very far from a real lockdown. Nevertheless, even these concessions about further deaths from the coronavirus are still unreasonable for many people. The contact restrictions for parties in particular seem to strain many people's willingness to make sacrifices too much, so that they continue to celebrate in large groups despite the virus. A woman from Hamburg has now shown them in an open letter what is a bad idea about it.

What did she write like that?

First and foremost, she reacts very understandingly to the celebration in the house. It is clear to her that she is in completely different circumstances than her neighbors and that she can cope with it very well if she only "sits on the sofa with a glass of red wine" at the weekend. And she openly admits: "Seven months of partying is really shit in your life phase."

That's surprisingly nice for a letter of complaint.

Indeed. And even after that, she pointed out sharply but accurately how far the celebrations in the house are from the current ordinance. She writes about drunk chants "at stadium volume" and the "almost loved" cloud of grass in the hallway. Particularly disgusting: She describes how she had to step into a "carelessly removed (let's call it an attempt) pool of blood" in the house.

Yes, I would be very annoyed by that regardless of the coronavirus

Above all, however, she bothers that she and her family do without so much in order to protect other people – and that their neighbors simply don't seem to care. "My children have not seen their grandfather for 7 months, are not allowed to celebrate children's birthdays, not for sports and only meet for two," she writes. But it is clear to her that she can hardly convince her to take a longer break from celebrating. Therefore, she uses the larger caliber.

What exactly is your killer argument?

She makes a little calculation – and it is so stunningly direct and plausible that she has hopefully convinced her neighbors – or at least they now think longer about whether big parties are really necessary.

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Brigitte