"Maybe it's not the crime of the century, but it affects us," Mr. Reifenrath said.
This is true, but it affects us differently, at different times.
"The law has good things, but it affects us negatively -- so I can't imagine there's anybody in rural America that doesn't have problems with it," Gov. Judy Martz of Montana, a Republican, said in an interview.
"They're free to publish what they like but it affects us, it's going to hurt us a lot," a Muslim woman identified as Salya told France Info radio from outside a mosque in Clichy-La-Garenne, a Paris suburb inhabited by many Muslims originally from north Africa.
That's obvious in the case of the elderly person who'd struggle to book a trip online or collect train tickets from a touchscreen machine but it affects us all: every exchange between a shopper and a checkout worker, a bank teller and a bank customer, "help[s] glue a neighbourhood, or a town, together".
"It happened far away, but it affects us all," Gal, a community organizer for York Pride Fest in Toronto, said as he wept.
I learned that stress is not only a risk factor for most chronic diseases (which are responsible for 75percentt of our health-care budget), but it affects us all the way down to our DNA, accelerating aging and altering our gene maps (turning on disease-causing genes).
But how has it affected us Czechs?
We were both shocked at how it affected us but very happy that all the boys seemed to be untouched by it.
"Nobody can tell if it affected us last year, but we enjoyed the experience," he said.
