VIRTUAL CULTURAL OFFERS TO YOU


The CORONA continues to attack us. I enclose my newest overview with the official figures from yesterday. The daily updating on the public sites take place at the latest 1400 hours. I write the new figures into my scheme right away. And if you cannot wait to see them until the following morning you can minutes later see them on my special blog:    KNOWING ABOUT THIS……    https://knowing-about-this.blogspot.com 



I have today also added information about how much each figure has increased in % from the day before.  It gives an impression of the development.  But the figures have to be seen with a certain uncertainty – as a Belgian expert explained on TV last night. Why?  Because some reports from hospitals and doctors might not have arrived in time. In other words:  the situation might in some cases be worse than the tables show.



Here in Belgium the authorities said yesterday that the present situation might well last another 8 weeks. And as they are afraid that a second wave of Corona might arrive the government has established a special task force to organise that it soon will be possible to make many more tests in the population. Right now about 2.000 tests are made per day.



Yesterday I included a number of links showing how people around Europe are very creative during these lock-down weeks. Some of the links I had picked up from Facebook unfortunately did not work on all computers.  But you can easily find more interesting cases by searching on Google.



Today I want to mention that a range of virtual, on-line cultural activities are also available to us all, while we “sitting-out” these at-home-weeks.  A few good examples:



1.     GOOGLE ARTS AND CULTURE:   https://artsandculture.google.com/ 



Here you can visit more than 1.200 museums and archives around the world. Google has made cooperation agreements with them all.



2.     CULTURE CHEZ NOUS:  https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Culturecheznous

This is the offers from the French Ministry of Culture.


And here you have very interesting offers from the Spanish authorities.

And you do not have to be professor in neither French or Spanish to enjoy many of these offers from many of Europe’s and the world’s fantastic cultural treasures.  And you save the flight ticket to go there ( and you can’t even get one these days !).



Finally, I have a new idea for youfor us all:  We are living – to say it mildly – in very special times right now. All of us.  I should very much like to make a collection about how we around Europe, around the world, experience these lock-down weeks? Wouldn’t that be interesting to read – also in some years?   What do you think?  And would you be willing to write – or illustrate in other ways – about it?  10-20 lines.  Perhaps with a photo or two.


Let me hear what you think!   Then I will come back to you all!


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