This makes me think of my daughter and spouse - freaking out over what's happening - husband in a fit from having to now work at home and no access to his usual outlets. I reminded her as she was leaving my house as to grandparents having to live through WWII - in army and/or fighting overseas. And people in Europe/Russia/Japan being invaded, bombed, genocided! But, hey, "I can't go to the gym!" Relates back to my previous post which keeps getting taken out of context:Had spent a lot of time with this old fella, almost a grandfather to me, and he lived to 113 (he died in the 80's). Anyway, he not only described living through so many wars, it was the depression that was so hard, and I never forgot his words. He told of how many of his friends or just people he knew or had met that never made it. They had entered a new life of abject despair, it was too much.
IOW, they will have atomic meltdowns if they lose the internet, too!How long before "a responsibility to protect the elderly" will start to wear thin for the millenials, gen X & Z, especially as their paychecks and/or other financial resources disappear and they're locked out of jobs? No restaurants, bars, shopping, sports, personal interaction with peers - better hope the internet stays up!
For a good portion of my life, even when still a child, I often thought of WWII - possibly because there used to be a siren that would go off at a certain time and it made me think of air raid sirens. I grew up in West Virginia so there were never any air raids during the war, but many movies/cartoons featured aspects of the war and it sunk in. What really gets my goat is how the whole time we baby boomers were growing up, it was all about not repeating what happened with the Nazis or becoming Communists. Never being required to have "papers" to travel, free speech with no censorship, no constraints on gathering or assembling, etc. And yet, little by little, I could see these terrible things that were NEVER supposed to happen here in America, were being instituted. WTH?!! Why were people idly standing by and complacently going along with this?! And it's only grown worst and brought us to this completely manufactured fake health crisis that's purposely designed to eliminate all our freedoms altogether. I guess the one thing coming out of it is, one can distinguish between those "who have eyes to see and ears to hear" and those who do not.