07/30/2020
On this , let’s throw it wayyyy back to gain perspective on this Thursday, July 30th 2020 •
If you were born in 1900, you came of age just in time for WWl: 22 million people die in trench warfare and the use of nerve gas. On your 18th birthday the Spanish Flu epidemic kills at least 50 million people, maybe up to 100 million in 2 years • As you put that behind you the Great Depression robs you of your career, empties your bank account, very likely your home. You’re 29 years old • 4 long years and the world economy has tanked. Climbing out of those 3 epic atrocities in 30 years you’ve but a brief respite when WWll erupts and by 1941, America is engulfed in a fight for its democracy;
even at 41, you may be drafted as it’s “all hands on deck.” 100 million people perish in concentration camps, the Soviet pograms, famine, war and genocide• And, in the “good old days” for over 40 years, you feared smallpox, which killed 300 million people, and, until you were 55, recurring polio each summer that paralyzed neighbors, friends, family, the POTUS. Nuclear war was an ever present threat, as your children practiced doomsday drills under their school desks • I could go on ... we can lament the world in 2020, bask in self pity and be victims to circumstance. Old News • Perspective is GOLD • If you are living today you are luckier than billions of the dead • Count me in on 2020. Let’s
