I got this write up from a friend of mine ...

 

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 and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years.

 

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.

 

When you're 41, the USA is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39-45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills 6 million. At 52, the Korean War starts and 5 million perish.

 

At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and goes on for years. 4 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 it from happening.

 

At 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 survived through everything listed above - we will too. 

 

A nice write-up, but out off topic in the Covid-19 forum.