
The best connoisseur of a society is a non-native staying.
Georg Friedrich Simmel
Being autistic I feel like a stranger my whole life. It’s a different way of being and thinking. I can’t remember being ever happy about just following rules. I always wanted to know the reasons behind. Needless to say you will always have problems with authorities and hierarchy with such an attitude. Feel free to criticize but we decide whether it’s justified or not. Don’t ask, just carry out orders! I simply can’t live like that. Well before the lockdown I refused to built up stocks at home. I live alone and nobody told me what to buy. The situation has been very scary for me. I’m too young to feed upon 14 days of tinned food, not to mention baking bread which I never did. Actually I bought some meal but never used it. In contrast to all these recommendations supermarkets remained open throughout the lockdown and it has been completely nonsense to buy the shop out for toilet paper. I also remember painstakingly keeping distance to other people outside, rather changing the sidewalk at all instead of just passing by. In the first weeks of the lockdown, the government rose the impression the Coronavirus was like measles, black death or smallpox, instantly jumping from host to host. In this article, I try to sum up the biggest mistakes dealing with SARS-CoV-2 and to a lesser extent the economic mistakes.
As an outsider (german) and being autistic I do not suffer neither from a monarchistic heritage nor obedience to authority. It is therefore possible for me to think outside the box and look behind the reasoning of rules.
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