"THEY also serve, who stand and wait".
The words of the famous John Milton poem have been backed up by authorities in Germany, who have launched a new TV commercial in praise of the country's coronavirus couch potatoes.
The ad depicts an elderly man who recalls his "service to the nation..in the winter of 2020 when the whole country's eyes were on us.
"I had just turned 22 and was studying engineering when the second wave hit...at this age you want to party, study, get to know people, go for drinks with friends," he continues.
"Yet fate had different plans for us, an invisible danger threatened everything we believed in," the narrator adds.
He said with the fate of the country in young peoples' hands "we mustered all our courage and did what was expected of us, the only right thing.
"We did nothing. Absolutely nothing. Being as lazy as raccoons, day and nights we stayed on our asses at home and fought against the spread of the coronavirus.
"Our sofa was the front line and our patience was our weapon," he concludes, adding "this is how we became heroes".
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