It's funny but lately it reminds me of the 1950s when I was a child

Why? Because life was pretty boring and I felt sort of imprisoned in my home like I sort of do now. But, there were not all the interesting things that there are now.

For example, there is cable TV, there is the Internet, there are streaming services where if you are home at least you can be entertained if you wish to be.

There were books though, so as I grew up enough to start reading books I could learn about the world so I was more rounded as I was growing up. I read Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle and I read Freddy the Pig which is similar in some ways where Freddy goes on adventures much like Dr. Dolittle only was written I think by an American because Dr. Dolittle was written by an English Gentleman.

But, I didn't have any control of where I live then. I just went wherever my father chose for us to live and I had to go to school there and though I loved learning I usually hated school. It's not that I didn't meet interesting people there, it's just that I didn't want to be in school being made to do things I didn't want to do all the time. So, because I was very intelligent most of the time I was bored in school.

But, sheltering in place reminds me of how mind numbing the 1950s were and then when you did go to school you had to do things like hide under your desk and pretend you were all being blown up in a nuke. So, the 1950s were crazy sort of like now.

So, these times remind me of just how crazy the 1950s were with all the PTSD war veterans from World war II and the Korean War beating up their kids.

My father was in the Marine Corps reserve from 1934 until 1937 and then he was an electrician building Liberty ships in Seattle like his older brother through out the war so at least my Dad didn't have PTSD from World War II like most younger men than he were who had seen hundreds or thousands of their friends killed horribly.

But, most men who couldn't deal with what they saw in World war II had ended their lives by 1955 or 1960 before the Viet Nam War started.

So, the mind numbing boredom of sheltering in place reminds me of growing up in the 1950s. But, the good part of this is I can deal with this just like I grew up okay and became a man. I've already seen much worse than this already.

But, many people haven't and many will get very strange from all this just like during world war II and all the wars since.

Because of the level of deaths and grief for this nation and the whole world the ONLY useful thing to compare this to is a war where millions die sort of like a nuclear war.

Otherwise, this doesn't make a lot of sense to anyone.