Socially dissonant
An international border runs between Konstanz, Germany,
and Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, but residents moved freely
between the municipalities before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Then, in hopes of limiting infections, officials erected first
one fence and, two weeks later, a second one, with a gap of
several feet in between. The goal was to prevent the physical
contact that these young couples managed on April 18,
along a stretch where there’s still only a single barrier.
Photograph by Ingmar Björn Nolting
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