I imagine the infant mortality rate, the mortality rate in hospitals, etc probably gave people a different attitude towards death a hundred years ago that might have given them a different perspective on a pandemic than now where mortality is much lower but also where we don't have a real relationship with death and so it seems like almost a cartoon villain we don't believe is real and coming for us. It just seems like a mindset that is completely different from a hundred years ago that will make our response to this pandemic pretty interesting.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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