Berlin – Incidence value, homeschooling, superspreader: After a year of pandemic, some of the shiny new terms have clearly lost their shine. Even “home office” is now unfamiliar to many who are affected involuntarily. Doesn’t that resonate with something of forced admission, of drudgery at the kitchen table like in the dark 19th century? After all, we used to think of our own apartment as an island of salvation that we longed to return to after the lunch break on certain office days. What did it matter if you quickly worked off a few e-mails on the sofa at eleven at night: at least physically you were in private spheres.
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