How the fuck did they get through the war??

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If it was 6 years...

This hasn't been a year yet and were all losing the will.....

I think the only benefits people in 1939 had were no 24/7 telly and no social media

But 6 years....OMG

@ApplesinmyPocket

I actually can't articulate how ridiculous I find comparisons between Now and Then. Yes, it's odd that we have to wear masks and try not to spread disease and have to restrict the things we do for a year or so. No-one likes it.

But no, it's not comparable to having to get the family up in the middle of the night and into the underground shelter when the sirens went off, or (like my uncle, aged 7) being sent to Shropshire as a child for two years to live with strangers. To sleep night after night on a tube station platform and to wake with the fear your house would be gone in the morning. To fear you'd be sent to a prison camp or exterminated by invaders.

The constant whining on here, the moaning "I'm so done" "I can't live like this any more!" "I'll kill myself if it goes on!" during this minor (on a world/historic scale) period of difficulty makes me feel like humans have really had it. We've reached the end of our evolution cycle. We are just too stupid, too feeble, we can't adapt any more, and we've lost the skills we once had to survive.

And people talking about how their civil liberties are being eroded. Clearly don’t know about curfews, rationing, the blackout and the censorship of the press.

Some months ago I read a thread on here where someone was whining over their parents wanting to take their kid on holiday. Post after post saying no way, how dare they even suggest such a thing, I couldn’t let my child out of my sight, never spent a night in a different house to my perfectly normal 12 year old, couldn’t cope if they weren’t in the same country, what if the plane crashed.....honestly it was absolutely pathetic. Can you imagine how they’d cope if their teenager had to go to war, no choice?

It’s been shit, but I’m more weary of the constant moaning than anything else, and that’s saying something given I’m shielding and I’ve lost my job!

I don't know about the war but I watched a Channel 5 programme in the Great Plague.

How the Jeff a anyone survived that I do now know. 70% fatality rate, death within hours. They had social distancing, isolating of houses but no Netflix, washing machines or zoom.

On the upside it made me feel positively perky about Coronavirus!

I saw that channel 5 programme as well. It did give a certain perspective didn't it. I still feel rotten at the moment, feeling bad makes me feel bad because I haven't been affected financially, I have plenty of food, I've bought all the Christmas presents, I'm healthy, my husband is doing OK despite being disabled, DC and partners and GC all well so I don't know why I suddenly feel so down. I did fine through the big lockdown, enjoyed the summer, settled down for things getting tougher and suddenly I just feel overwhelmed. Hopefully it will pass as suddenly as it arrived.

@flowerycurtain

I don't know about the war but I watched a Channel 5 programme in the Great Plague.

How the Jeff a anyone survived that I do now know. 70% fatality rate, death within hours. They had social distancing, isolating of houses but no Netflix, washing machines or zoom.

On the upside it made me feel positively perky about Coronavirus!

I watched this too and it was interesting how it naturally declined after 18 months as previous similar plagues had in history. I'm not anti vax (I've just signed up to administer it in hospitals) but I just thought that was interesting