People with a knowledge of history aren’t panicking.

Thought provoking stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Didn’t he have polio?

And elevators, airplanes and cruise ships

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I get the sense people are panicking more about the possible discomfort of having no TP and their kids around every day than they are dying of the virus/going truly hungry/etc.

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The run on shite tickets is the most fascinating part of this whole ordeal

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The run on shite tickets is the most fascinating part of this whole ordeal

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I'll be buying new washcloths soon enough

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It was a failed FDR joke.

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Seems like it landed pretty well

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“The only thing to fear is fear itself” -FDR 1933

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And stairs

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And strokes

People with a knowledge of history are looking back at the Spanish Flu pandemic and trying not to repeat it (hence the social distancing)

People whose knowledge of history only stems back as far as earlier recent overblown outbreaks (SARS/MERS/Swine.....) are the ones willing to say, no questions asked, that since the coin has landed on heads a handful of times in a row, it will surely land on heads again.

We don’t have the data to say that in either direction. Yes, the world and our scientific knowledge has increased dramatically since a century ago, as it had the century before that.

But, it is a near certainty that society in 2120 is going say we’re as primitive as we say our predecessors are now, we just don’t know exactly what it is we’re “obviously” so fricking wrong about yet.

I'm a boomer. I done seen cheap gas, viruses, illnesses, stock market dropping due to chicken littles, wars and all kind of shite.

Most of us get through and keep on keeping on.

Advice: don't take money out of the stock market. If you don't take any out you haven't actually lost anything.

I live on SS and 401K. I'm only taking out of bonds now. I may stop taking any out. I'll just take out of savings account until this all lines back out.