The Coronavirus

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-04-2020, 10:04 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Are you looking at as the culmination or the beginning/trigger? Bob, did American life stop after Pearl Harbor or did Americans still have social gatherings, sports events, go to movies, go out to diner, celebrate Christmas together, watch parades on 4th July, go to bars and so forth during the entire war that followed. COVID19 is a short term problem that's already in the process of ending and we are going through the worst of it right now. The first wave will be the worst and we will be ready and fully prepared for the 2nd come fall. The trial and error is underway and will produce a variety of treatments based on and eventually a vaccine. We want our lives back. I anticipate a return to the past and I expect to be able to be eating at a restaurant with the family or a bar with friends again. The economic aftermath/fallout will be what the crisis will be mainly about in my opinion.

My father during his lifetime refused to buy a German or Japanese car. As he saw it, they stole four years of his life. They didn’t deserve his money. He had just finished just before Pearl Harbor taking a course teaching him how to fix telephones. In the war, guess what, he wound up in the Signal Corps fixing telephones. (The course they gave him on entering the Signal Corp was the exact same course as he took in civilian life.) During his first day on the job in the army at R.O.T.C. Carnage Tech, they gave him an extra corporal’s stripe because the cadets didn’t listen to privates, and told him to go watch a Pirates game. So, yes, in some ways American life went on. He turned in his hours, then he was in the middle of a big city. Not so much after he was transferred to Italy, but still he had his chances.

But the stock market crash was different from the three military triggers and was different from the Coronavirus. Different problems effect different people and have different solutions. Do you expect each crisis to be a duplicate of one before? If crisis wars were made obsolete by nukes, were you expecting the same response as to a crisis war? Where did that come from?

You really ought to read S&H for comprehension. Past crises changed America greatly. We didn’t go back and didn’t want to go back. I am projecting that something similar will happen again.

Conservatives generally don’t want change, but guess what is to be expected in a crisis?

So, I am looking at both the beginning and the result.