Hausaufgabe 21
Due: March 9, 2026
- Schreiben: Erzählen Sie von einer Zeit, als Sie oder ein Freund oder Familienmitglied krank war. Diese Frage soll man im Perfekt und Präteritum.
- Vor zwei Jahre, bin ich nach Frankreich gereist. Es hat viele Leute gegeben, als ich dem Zug gefahren bin. Es war der Sommer Olympics. Dann bin ich zu Hause geflogen. Als ich geflogen bin, war ich krank. Ich hat gehustet. Ich hatte Fieber. Ich hatte Kopfschmerzen. Ich war sehr furchtbar, wenn ich zu Hause gereist bin. Ich hatte Covid. Als ich zu Hause gekommen bin, bin ich ins Bett gegangen. Ich bin zu Hause geblieben.
- Kulturtag: Reflection
- This is perhaps the most indicting look at our own culture through these culture day lessons. It speaks to me like our now official Democratic candidate for US Senate in Texas, James Talarico, who says, "Don't tell me what you believe. Show me how you treat other people and I will tell you what you believe." For our purposes -- don't tell me what your culture is about -- tell me about how you run health care in your country, and I will tell you what your culture is about. These looks into the individual mandate in Germany and Switzerland put a spotlight on our failures. I am old enough to remember being at a town hall at UNMC hosted by Senator Ben Nelson as we tried to set up a similar system in "Obamacare." Attacked at the time by the so-called "Tea Party," it would have been hard to predict that cancer in our society would metastasize into the present-day MAGA movement. The whole argument against requiring everyone to purchase health insurance is centered on individual liberty, but it reveals something much larger about its proponents -- the complete rejection of any personal responsibility. The whole idea of health insurance in a very basic sense is that it only works if both healthy and sick people pay for it. By its very nature, it cannot work if only the sick people pay for the insurance. And so looking back on it now, I think it is fair to wonder if our failure to embrace the reforms of the Affordable Care Act could have predicted the rise of MAGA and our present-day concentration camps and the overall failures of the rule of law in general.