In a 30-year period we had WWI, the Spanish Flu, the Stock Market Crash, the Great Depression, and WWII

[Dennis S]

Hard to fathom.

[S. Pupp]

In the last 30 years, we have had Iraq1, 911, Afghanistan/Iraq2, Coronavirus, 2 stock market crashes, and Kurt Cobain's suicide.
If not for Kurt Cobain, you'd have won.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

S. Pupp, you left out The Great Recession. There is also the possible upcoming Super Depression after unemployment hits 30%.

[rjmacs]

Stop gilding the lily, Filliam - you didn't even mention WWIII.

miley-excited001:

[Wags]

We are a violent irrational species with a very thin veneer of civility. Better now than any other era, except the numbers are all much bigger.

[NewtonMP2100]

....and don't forget that hernia........

[testcase]

Just goes to prove..........


Feces occurs......


Always has, always will.


What matters is how you handle / adapt / cope that makes the difference.


:boink:

[hal]

Don't forget the tsunami that killed over 100000 people - that was a pretty big deal.

[DP]

testcase wrote:
Just goes to prove..........


Feces occurs......


Always has, always will.


What matters is how you handle / adapt / cope that makes the difference.


:boink:

This.

We still have our electricity, water, HVAC, and, the most important things of all, internet and TV.

Our medical knowledge is the most learned ever (don't start-I wrote, "knowledge"), and we have food available.

We don't have bombs dropping on our heads. Seriously; take a look at your neighborhood (and your whole city, for that matter) and imagine yours and your neighbor's homes empty shells with maybe two blackened walls that are all that's left of them and you the only survivor of your family. Well, you can't. But may I show a couple of images I have posted before that will show you what happened to others? This first is the business district of Manila in 1945 after the liberation of the Philippines:



In this next one, notice the people holding handkerchiefs up to their faces. It's due to the stench although there was plenty of disease around there:



Do we have that here?

Think about six million human beings taken from their homes to places that were built specifically to murder them. Not to mention other camps in Siberia and China-both during the Imperial Japanese occupation then later during the Cultural Revolution. And yes, the United States has it's iniquities too and that we are not innocent.

People are having a cow because their gym is closed or they can't get a Starbucks. My God-my fingernails are a mess! And my hair!

And I personally can't drive my Sabrina right now....

We will get thru this. We will not have to boil our belts to soften them up enough to eat, then drink the boiled water to get some,-any-nutrition.

We will have the Covidiots to deal with, yes. Right now, I am very annoyed with those who wear gloves then drop them on the parking lot pavement or leave them in shopping carts for someone already with a greater chance of getting infected to remove and dispose of.

We just need to count our blessings and realize this is nothing of what our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents dealt with in their lifetimes...

[DP]

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