I listen to Old Time Radio. There’s an old “Dragnet” episode from the 1950s where an alcoholic mom leaves her 4 young children in squalor chasing some fling to Mexico.
“What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.”
Ecclesiasties 1:9
What is? is. What was? will be. What will be *was*, but will be again.