Corona
Nothing is permanent in the world even this pandemic
Coronavirus
For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were
born in 1900.
When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday
with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits
the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those
two years. Yes, 50 million.
When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%,
global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses
along with the world economy.
When you turn 39, World War - II starts. You aren’t even over the
hill yet. When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into World War - II.
Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and
the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million
perish. At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four
million people die in that conflict.
Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a
tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well
have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening. As you turn 75, the
Vietnam War finally ends.
Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all
of that? A kid in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood
how hard school was. Yet those grandparents (and now great grandparents)
survived through everything listed above.
Perspective is an amazing art.
Let’s try and keep things in perspective. Let’s be smart, help each
other out, and we will get through all of this.” In the history of the world,
there has never been a storm that lasted forever. This too, shall or will pass.
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By Ashutosh Bhushan
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