It has always been this way. Sometimes, a plague kills off 95% of people or 20 or 30 million per country or area. It is unknown really how many will die directly or indirectly from coronavirus. The way it looks now the U.S. for sure and maybe even Europe could lose each as many as they lost in World War II which is actually saying something here. I'm not sure what the Western world and Democracies will look like after all this but it definitely will change us a lot just like The Great Depression changed my father and mother a lot. When they were teenagers the Great Depression happened and then in their 20s World War II happened.
I took my mother before she passed on in her 80s to Germany and she didn't want to be there because the Germans had machine gunned her young friend Bruce from Church so she wasn't comfortable when I flew her to Germany, but she was okay in Switzerland, England Scotland and Italy maybe. She never was the same after that. I guess she had entered Senile Dementia but I didn't understand yet because I had never seen it before. She made it to 90 though even though she didn't know me for 2 years before she died. I had taken her and my then 10 year old daughter to see where her father and mother had grown up in Scotland and then later we met my then 25 year old son and his friend in Munich, Germany who were on a 2 or 3 month Eurail pass through Europe and a Britrail pass through England, and Scotland as well. This was in Fall 1999.
My parents went through really awful things growing up and in the Great Depression and World War II but they were both fine people anyway. They were very good people and gave me a good start in life because of this. But, people of that era were never exactly "Right" because of the PTSD they had experienced in various ways from World War II and before that the Great Depression.
That likely will be said for people who are teenagers and children now out the other side of this pandemic after thousands to millions die and go bankrupt and businesses go bankrupt from all this worldwide.
They say people have been crying this week. I noticed the last few days that it is sinking in. This is not a temporary emergency like an earthquake, tornado or hurricane but a long term one of 2 to 5 years worldwide. How will everyone survive this?
They won't. Only those most adaptable are going to survive this because of what I have already seen and heard during my life so far. And I still remember 1950 very clearly when I was 2 years old.
Hopefully, we can keep the deaths under 1 million people in the U.S. and about the same for Europe.
This is my hope. Because the grief is going to be difficult for everyone to live with as well as all the changes to society through all of this.
Godspeed everyone!
by God's Grace
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