Here’s a good helping of perspective for all the whiners out there during this Covid-19 crisis. What we’re asked to do doesn’t compare even a little bit to what our parents and grandparents lived through. Surely we can sit at home a little longer.
Larry
I have no idea who wrote the following piece, but it strikes me as worthy of wider dissemination than it has had so far. My son sent it to me the other day and said, simply, “it was written by a co-worker.” It strikes me as particularly important given the fact that we are all feeling fed-up with the coronavirus and all that it entails. We simply cannot wait until things go “back to normal” — refusing to admit to ourselves that there may be no return to normal and that the “new normal” will be like nothing we have ever experienced.
In any event, we wallow in self-pity since few of us has ever had to deny ourselves much of what we want. This is, after all, the “Age of Entitlement” not only in the schools but in the homes as well. We buy on plastic and run up…
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just drive, will you? 
Thanks for sharing this. Wise words indeed. My grandparents, born in 1903 and 1904, never talked about those times – now I understand why.
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Yeah, my dad was born in 1918, right at the start of the epidemic, was a teenager during the Depression, and a soldier in WWII. He didn’t care to talk about that stuff, either.
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There are some people in the world, many in this country, who are 100 years old or older. (The 4th wave of the 1918 pandemic hit in the spring of 2020.) This is their second pandemic. We’re only on our first. 🤔
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Wow. I can’t imagine living through two of these.
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