BERLIN (AP) – The German government has unveiled a tongue-in-cheek ad calling for unlikely heroes in the fight against the coronavirus epidemic: humble bed potatoes.
90 second video posted The online post begins with Saturday when an older man comes back remembering his ‘service’ to the country when he was just a young student “in the winter of 2020, when the whole country was watching us.”
“I was just 22 years old and studying engineering,” when the second wave hit.
With the violin stimulated on the strings of the viewer’s heart, the narrator as a young man is turning to the scene.
“Suddenly the fate of this country is in our hands,” he says. “So we gathered all our courage and did what was expected of us, the only right thing to do. We did nothing. “
“Night and day we stayed on the backside at home and fought the spread of coronavirus,” the narrator continues. “Our bed was the front line and our patience was our weapon.”
The announcement ends with a government message that “you too can be a hero at home.”
In early November, Germany imposed new sanctions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, to close restaurants, bars and gyms in Germany, and to limit the number of people who can meet in public and private settings.
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