"Baby boomers grew up fearing nuclear war. Now we" Topic

… fear something too small to see.

"As a kid, growing up in the 1960s, I feared death from above: the A-bomb's immense, blinding flash, its mushroom cloud. Nights during the Cuban missile crisis, I sat in bed, ear pressed to the window as I tried to gauge the height of planes overhead because I imagined bombers would fly low. For years, I checked every home I rented for its safest, least-windowed room, just in case. And during a nap when I was 20, I had a nuclear nightmare so vivid I remember it to this day.

I never thought that in my life's Act III, the terror would be death from something too small to see — a microscopic virus, carried on someone's random sneeze. But it feels appropriate somehow, a reminder of something my generation once knew, then forgot: vulnerability…"
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Amicalement
Armand

As I posted on my Facebook page. Young folks take heart, I am now an old man but in my youth I have seen several before and after changes in the world. I am not talking about the life style changes due to political events but those caused by health issues.
The first event was a positive one. The vaccine for polio. Polio was bad. One year a kid would be on your ball team and the next year he was gone.
In 1976 the Swine Occured. The vaccine was so strong, I passed at driving my car on the interstate. The next life style altering event was AIDS. Dating and relationships definitely changed.
Then there was the Avian flu of about 2000 which caused most State and county EMAs to design mass casualty mitigation plans.
Then there was the H1N1 virus during Obama which killed over 30,000 just in the US.
Now there is Covid19, and things will change again.
But take heart and live. It is not the end of the world.

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand