@Bootie
My post was not directed at you personally, if it was I would have mentioned you or quoted your post. Sorry if you felt slighted by it.
I will not step back from my claim of this being the 'snowflake generation', generation may be the wrong word though, more like 'snowflake society', we here in the western world have had it so good for so long that many people have no idea what real hardship is.
Our society, such as it is, is going to have to 'harden the f**k up' whether they like it or not. The thing is once they do, they'll realise that it's
really not as bad as media, mass or social, would have us believe. Humans, and any student of history would know, are adaptable and resilient creatures, even children if they are given the appropriate support will tough it out in the worst of conditions. We don't like it, but when there is no other choice, we do.
'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger' as the saying goes.
I actually had a guy say to me today: 'The world has never been through anything like this!', I'm guessing he wasn't a student of history then as I'm sure the good people who died of spanish flu or bubonic plague would be disappointed to know. We have the amazing benefit of living in an age of modern medicine and scientific discovery, as a species we've literally never been in a better position to deal with this thing.
On a personal level, we've had some setbacks, we had to cancel my wifes trip to Thailand to bring back our little one due to the risk of the borders closing and the better half being stuck over there, looks like it was the right call. Unfortunately our daughter is now stuck over there for the duration of this thing. It sucks but what can you do. Fortunately she is in good hands with the grandparents.
My folks are in their eighties, so I do have some concern for them, fortunately they're both pretty healthy for their ages but it's amazing how fast things can go downhill when dealing with illness and the elderly. As a pragmatic person I know their deaths are something that I'll have to deal with eventually, as we all do sooner or later, and am not looking forward to it - but if it happens, it happens.
My wife quit her work a month or so back as she was going to concentrate on being a full time mum with the little one coming home, just shitty timing there. My work may quieten off a bit, but I very much doubt layoffs are on the cards.
All in all, we're doing ok, probably a lot better than many others.
I firmly believe, and feel free to mark this post, that in a years time from now the global economy will be powering along again, a lot of new babies will be born which will generate demand and replace the oldies lost to this thing - life will carry on as it does, and 'hoarding toilet paper' will become the meme of 2020.
