[gleeaikin]

First of all check out my Comment 24. Also, I am currently reading Barbara Tuckman’s, A Distant Mirror. It covers the 1300s which suffered so from the Black Death. The social Dislocation was horrible, and all segments of society were fighting each other thru thet Century. To some degree I see that happening currently.

[MNJohnnie]

Im not sure what to call this. Perhaps romanticism?

There seems to be need to try and create a resonance between a person current life and some terrible event of the past.

I read a 60s “anti-war protester” who wanted to claim the Vietnam War was a destructive to their generation as World War 1 was that generation

It wans’t

Covid-19 is no where near in significance to either the Black Death or the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic

I understand why people think that since the “reporting” on it has been pure garbage.