Illnesses have long been seen not only as fate, but as a result of personal misconduct, small sins and big vices. Well then, good recovery.
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Werner Bartens
Crime and Punishment is the name of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s first major novel. It’s about morality, inflated expectations, death and ruin. And it would be an appropriate title for the morally charged discussion about the wave of infections that is currently sweeping the country. There is always talk of an “immune debt”. The term is medically nonsensical, but it suggests that people are now paying the bill for not “training” their immune systems during contact restrictions and the obligation to wear masks, but instead evading the viruses – now nature is fighting back.