By reading me the Soviet classic “Wash Your Hands or Perish.”
“We used to stand in a long line for hours to get toilet paper!”
“Are you sure you want to eat that so fast? It may not be in the stores tomorrow.”
“Don’t touch anything—it’s all full of cholera!”
“Is that how you wash vegetables? You have to use soap! And soak your grapes in baking soda for thirty minutes.”
“It could be worse. During the Siege of Leningrad, your grandfather almost starved to death when his neighbors stole his food supplies.”
“Cheer up! Pushkin spent months in quarantine during the cholera epidemic.”
