"So folks, the first step out into freedom. It feels really strange", Amira Pocher (28) lets her 711,000 Instagram followers live on Wednesday evening when she and husband Oliver Pocher (42) are out of quarantine directly on the way to the television studio. In the RTL program "Stern TV" they talked about spending time together at home.
While the two fought with the corona virus, Oli Pocher buttoned up one Instagram influencer after the other. Moderator Steffen Hallaschka (48) wants to know whether she was not annoyed by his "permanent broadcasting" during her illness. "It's not news for me. It has always been this way," laughs the mother of a child together (born 2019).
"Then you are only a number"
The two of them cannot understand the chain of infection in their cases. "I was still in Austria on a Thursday and he came from L.A. on Friday," she says, adding that both of them may have brought the virus with them from their travels. "You just don't know." The fact that the two were not allowed to leave the house after their respective positive corona tests had been ordered by the authorities.
They should have "personally absurdly accepted the letter," recalls Oliver Pocher. After that, both would have called the health department daily. "Then you are only a number. I was the 717." But you would have always followed the rules.
The symptoms
With Amira Pocher it started "sometime in the evening with a dry cough". They would have joked with a friend, moderator Mola Adebisi (47). The next morning she noticed that something was wrong. In addition to the irritating cough, there were "very, very bad headaches and body aches". It felt like flu.
Oliver Pocher assumes that Amira had more severe symptoms than he did. He couldn't smell anymore. And: "I was a little feverish in the evening, I had chills. It was a little harder for a day." He always wondered if he could have performed theoretically at 8 p.m. "That would always have been possible," he describes his condition with the mild symptoms in the past two weeks.
The Pochers had short-circuited with moderator Johannes B. Kerner (55). He had also announced his illness on March 13 via Instagram. Its quarantine was lifted "with effect from March 23". He had already told them that they would "lose their sense of smell and taste". That was exactly what happened the next day. After "five, six, seven days" both came back little by little, says Oliver Pocher. "It is really a scary feeling," adds Amira Pocher. One evening she was on the verge of a panic attack. "You feel trapped in your own body."
Amira Pocher's quarantine ended on Tuesday, as Oliver Pocher announced on Instagram. She had been tested positive for the corona virus on March 19, he himself on March 21 …