Posted on 03/31/2020 7:53:10 AM PDT by nwrep
Anne-Sophie Mutter has announced, via social media, that she has tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus.
‘I have tested positive for COVID-19 … I am staying very quarantined at home and I am expecting to fully recover ….’ the German violinist said.
‘It’s interesting what it does with your head. At first I thought this is a total distaster and in some tragic cases it is really a difficult situation but in my case I am 56 and not smoking. To the smokers among my fans, you should really consider stopping now.’
Yes, but....... she can’t play Orange Blossom Special worth a damn
She’s working her way up to Giga-star.
Apparently so. I contacted several news outlets to tell them my nephew has it but they weren’t interested.....
It’s ok. Most people have not. The classical world is elite and rarified. Unlike pop.
At this point I think we’re all going to get it, this @#$# is more contagious than we think ...
Wouldn't.
But are you factoring in the possibility that she can play as she, um, plays?
As for instance if she might face the other ways?
Very talented violinist.
She gets it from her father, but her mutters a musician too
Was she in the news during the H1N1, swine flu, SARS, MERS, Ebola, Zika epidemics? H1N1 had very high death numbers, much higher than covid-19 so far.
Yes, Peggy Maroon Noonan wrote an endless gush (as close as she's come in years to dampness) about how she specially arranged an interview to determine whether she might need the coronovirus test.
She had to answer the series of questions, do you have this, feel this, have experienced something else? No, no, no.
Only one of the questions was a potential problem, about being near to a patient or possible patient.
She thought it over, said, No, there was someone but he was in the next room the whole time.
"Was the door open?"
She thought it over. "Mmmm...closed."
"Okay," said the nice test lady, "You shouldn't have to worry, you were likely weren't exposed."
Peggy was thunderstruck. She was quite certain her symptoms meant VIRUS.
And now she wasn't going to get any treatment at all!
Then she had an epiphany. The interviewer was certainly very sympathetic. "Can we try the interview again?" Peggy asked. "I might have recalled something."
This time when she reached the door question she was ready: The door was close to closed but certainly not latched. You could see the light through it!
Yay! She and the interviewer were overjoyed! Not Latched is certainly not closed. She could take the test if she wished, and ooohhh she very much wished!
Thus the reader got to wait a whole week to find out that she didn't have the virus at all, just some form of---Peggy's word---schmutch.
So she didn't have the symptoms, didn't have the killer disease, didn't take the treatment. She very probably didn't even get damp.
Scientific community says without mitigation measures instituted, the death toll with covid-19 would be 10x higher than any of those.
One thing I'd like to hear from celebs who get the disease is what the experience was like once they are well (if they get well). I want to know things like:
"It was like a regular cold."
It was like the worst case of Flu you can imagine."
"I was so sick I wanted to die.", etc.
That story about Peggy is embarrassing to read... for her.
She had to be led to the conclusion that they were eager to find for her.
I won’t be so lucky. I’ve been feeling achy and viral today, but no temp (97.4, normal for me).
“Suck it up,” I tell myself. “You’re only a little over 70.”
Mitigation & quarantines & lockdowns enhance the risk of ruining the economy for a very long time. That means millions losing jobs and lively-hoods. So there is no positive side to this pandemic.
You hang in there.
You’re made of, and fork, so much better stuff than she.
You drop a line anytime.
Sorry! I put an unnecessary fork in my line lol!
I meant you are made of, and FOR, so much better stuff than she.
Agreed.
Is that account for real? Why would anybody embarrass herself by relating it?
https://youtu.be/COGcCBJAC6I
Mutter and Lambert Orkis in Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” sonata.
It is real, rather more than less...I still have the WSJ paper out in the kitchen though I did not check each detail...I read the story a week ago and basically presented here what I drew from memory.
I think the embarrassment would escape her entirely. That's the life she lives. "I worked for Ronald Reagan"...and she hasn't done a notable thing since, other than sneer at President Trump whenever and however possible.
Nowadays she usually looks for words or actions of incivility, and they adorn her smothering half-page column every week or so.
Sooooo tedious it has become.
And even a casual listener can tell it is her, the sound massages the soul as well as makes the hairs on the back of your neck in astonishment.
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