People actually died in WW2
No generation can compare to the Greatest Generation! End of Story!
My grandparents would never have put on masks to go grocery shopping. Would not have allowed a Governor to tell them to shut down their business.
No. Not even close.
I had to return to my office today after working from home for a month. I guess I’m just like the guys who stormed Omaha Beach in 1944! /s
Sacrificing Liberty never saves lives
It hurts me that anyone could make that comparison without throwing up.
Our citizens are soft morons. We deserve what is coming our way.
Are we ready to be greatest generation?
No. Not even close!
Many were maimed for like by polio.
Hong Kong flu killed many.
A better analogy would be if Americans in 1941 had shit their pants, hidden under their beds and abandoned Europe and the Pacific to Germany and Japan.
I don’t remember the part of WWII where people sat at home collecting welfare and stopped going to work.
I am sitting at home eating mac & cheese and getting ready to listen to Rush. I am a hero./s
Every dictatorship co-opts the heroics and symbols of the old order when they are useful as propaganda.
A classic example of this is American pre-war nazis having that rally with HUGE posters of George Washington.
Another is the American communists who joined in the Spanish Civil war calling themselves “The Abraham Lincoln Brigade”.
So of course today’s statist, central planning, China-loving, Constitution-hating, A-holes want to invoke WWII, and all that. It speaks to the weakness of truth of their arguments today.
A close friend’s grandfather spent 4 years in a Japanese POW camp after the fall of the Philippines. He was one of the higher-ranking officers in the camp, and testified at war crimes trials for some of the Japanese officers involved in administering the POW camps.
Friend has been posting some excerpt from his grandfathers diary to the people freaking out over how bad quarantine / shelter in place is. No, people, you don’t have it that bad.
Note that this is a completely separate issue from whether shelter in place is appropriate.
Please...
It’s been a one month long business shutdown, not four years of austerity. Is this coming from people who received participation trophies?
NO comparison.
In an alternate universe where there is comparison,
after Pearl harbour, Dr. Jauxi praises the Japanese
and demands all Americans must remain in their
homes, hiding, while the Japanese use fire lanterns
to bring novel-Polio to every city. For months,
Americans HIDE, while the novel-Polio virus infects
city after city. Three months later, 50K dead,
and 40 million with damaged CNS/immune systems.
Dr. Jauxi then directs the President to inject
every American with Japanese-Nazi potions to
“protect”. Otherwise, they must remain in their
homes FOREVER.
Comparing our COVID-19 response to World War II? LOL. Good heavens — please stop this pathetic nonsense.
The government employees in my town are patting themselves on the back big time. They saved us all.
Completely different. The covid debacle started a lie. Two major math errors in modeling.
“...we have sacrificed our liberty to preserve lives.
In theory that was true to sone degree. The idea was to not let the hospital’s be overwhelmed.
But that never even came close to happening.
“Greatest Generation, meet the latest generations..”
Greatest Generation, meet the piss-poorest generations.