US expat Blane Bachelor moved to Germany at the start of the pandemic and can only look on in despair as coronavirus besieges her homeland while Europe begins to emerge from its apparently successful lockdown.
I was 25 years old and teaching English in Barcelona in September 2001 when terrorists crashed two airplanes into the World Trade Center. With no TV or internet in my crummy apartment, I watched the news every night at the home of a student who'd become a dear friend, struggling to process the terrifying footage and what this awful event meant for my home country -- and for me, thousands of miles away from my family and loved ones.
Nearly 20 years later, I'm again living abroad, this time in Berlin for my husband's job, and again struggling to process the horror of another crisis -- the out-of-control coronavirus pandemic -- wreaking havoc on my home country.My people aren't coming together to overcome this disaster like no other country; in fact, we're leading the world in cases and deaths. As the numbers continue to climb, so does my despair and fear about the uncertain future of my beloved homeland.
But that gratitude comes with a heavy dose of guilt about what my fellow citizens are confronting back home. Will my loved ones stay safe and healthy? How many more people will needlessly die? When will I get to see my parents, who live in Florida and with whom I'm incredibly close, again?German cities have added bike lanes to help people move around more safely in the wake of the virus.These are the questions that keep me up at night since leaving the United States four months ago.
“We fully trusted Germany's world-class healthcare system and its swift, coordinated response to the pandemic.”Most importantly, we fully trusted Germany's world-class health care system -- in fact, one of the city's coronavirus hospitals is about five blocks from our apartment -- and its swift, coordinated response to the pandemic.
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