2020 has to be the most depressing year of my lifetime...
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Same - noting 2001 sucked pretty good. I do think this is worse though.
1968 was worse, so was 1973 (long deployment, missed entire football season)
Thanks for serving.
At least the stock market is back up - at least for now. But until a vaccine is available or evidence that the virus has stopped spreading, life will not return to the way it was before. I read a lot more now and binge watch TV but limit it to one show per night. We treat ourselves to take out once or twice per week and get groceries delivered, splurging on good fish and meats. I’m looking for a new hobby which I can do alone, perhaps photography or painting, but to make matters worse I’m rehabbing a back injury now. I think we’re in for 6 months (more or less) of massively changed behavior. This has become the new normal. I have to keep in mind that I’ve been very fortunate in my life and many things have gone better for me than I ever expected they would. Now we have an election ahead of us that is likely to be ugly no matter who emerges victorious. I hope that professional sports can restart to at least give us some diversion through all this. We need an F&@n break.
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I don't know, 1300. There wasn't a pandemic with all its uncertainty added to the mix. Also, we now have the long term prospects of a natural disaster on our doorstep caused by climate change. As crazy as times were then, this country is every bit as divided now if not more so. It's a close call, but I'll say this is worse. Besides, the music was far better back then.
Heck, I just watched Soylent Green.
Go read the thread 68 vs 2020. 68 was was worse.I don't know, 1300. There wasn't a pandemic with all its uncertainty added to the mix. Also, we now have the long term prospects of a natural disaster on our doorstep caused by climate change. As crazy as times were then, this country is every bit as divided now if not more so. It's a close call, but I'll say this is worse. Besides, the music was far better back then.
Dark forces are at play. Time to keep your head down and get by for now.
Keep smoking grass and spinning wax.
Keep smoking grass and spinning wax.
The big difference between 1968 and 2020 is that 1968 had better music. That’s why 2020 will be worse.
1979 was worse. We were no 1 and lost to Bama in the Sugar Bowl!!! You just don't get over something like that.
We'll get over this.. Its a perfect storm.... A virus that was misjudged, people quarentined for 75 days, required mask wearing so looters could hide their faces, stupid cops murdered a helpless man. Give it a few years and the crises of the day will have this one fading awa to the past. Its tragic but we'll get through it.
We'll get over this.. Its a perfect storm.... A virus that was misjudged, people quarentined for 75 days, required mask wearing so looters could hide their faces, stupid cops murdered a helpless man. Give it a few years and the crises of the day will have this one fading awa to the past. Its tragic but we'll get through it.
no doubt about the musicI don't know, 1300. There wasn't a pandemic with all its uncertainty added to the mix. Also, we now have the long term prospects of a natural disaster on our doorstep caused by climate change. As crazy as times were then, this country is every bit as divided now if not more so. It's a close call, but I'll say this is worse. Besides, the music was far better back then.
before my time, but every year from 1929 thru 1945 was worse, too
Yeah, sucks real bad. And the better, more fun was one's life before 2020, the worse 2020 feels.
Coronavirus/covid, and worse, our governments' responses to it, was like a great equalizer for "good life." Then the whole country took a knee to the neck trying to finish us off.
And it's only June 3.
F*** all.
Life is what we make of it. We may not be able to control external events but we can control our response to them. As Churchill said, "If you're going through hell, keep going."
I don't know, 1300. There wasn't a pandemic with all its uncertainty added to the mix. Also, we now have the long term prospects of a natural disaster on our doorstep caused by climate change. As crazy as times were then, this country is every bit as divided now if not more so. It's a close call, but I'll say this is worse. Besides, the music was far better back then.
2020 has the music from 1968...and all the music since 1968
Well a 5.5 quake just hit SoCal and we are rolling into hurricane season. I expect something dramatic to happen in the Straits of Hormuz any day now as Iran attempts to capitalize on the chaos. ISIS is still out there as well.
Come on man. You want someone to off themself. Lol
In 1968 the cities of Detroit, Baltimore and Cleveland basically ended existing to their past glory. Although 2020 is disheartening we are still not suffering as a society were we need to ration goods e.g. rubber. This is bad but it ain’t hurricane Agnes.
My dad is 93 and would agree. Lived through the great depression and won a bronze star at 18 in WWII. To my mom age 91 and he, this is more of an inconvenience. I know that isnt the case for most people. .
For me, not even close. Hopefully I’ll have many more years to compare.
It’s way too early to say that. We’re in the early stages of this economic downturn. It’s funny how people think it’s some temporary inconvenience...there will be long lasting negative effects on the economy....we just don’t know how bad. It may dwarf the Great Depression.
I'm not going to even try comparing this to any of the Vietnam years- I was pretty young then. But in what I can remember, this has been a pretty lousy year. It's going to go down as an overblown screwup too at the State level.
Add in the rioting, and it just keeps getting worse.
Add in the rioting, and it just keeps getting worse.
Wow we are almost related. My dad is 95 two bronze stars and mom is 91. And their parents lived through the Spanish flu.
Every person lives through a bad year at some point in their lives.
My parents had the Depression.
I had 1968 when I spent the entire year in Vietnam, got dumped by my fiance', came home and found that half of my friends no longer wanted to associate with me.
Older guys may have WW2, younger folks may have 9/11, younger still it may be 2020. No one will ever escape having a bad year, it is part of the challenge of life.
My parents had the Depression.
I had 1968 when I spent the entire year in Vietnam, got dumped by my fiance', came home and found that half of my friends no longer wanted to associate with me.
Older guys may have WW2, younger folks may have 9/11, younger still it may be 2020. No one will ever escape having a bad year, it is part of the challenge of life.
Our leadership at every level has been terrible and the politicizing of the pandemic has been a disgrace, Politicians used to come together in a crisis now they see it as an opportunity to gain political power and screw the average American who is just trying to get by. Like the old Lawyer joke states - What do you call 100 politicians at the bottom of the Ocean?
Disagree totally. 1968 did not toe up to the line of a Great Depression that could adversely and permanently are a whole generation. We could avoid this, but the clock is ticking...
This is spot on! Life always has ups and downs and they will always be external factors that may affect you and you need to adjust accordingly. I was thinking the other day, the younger generation has not really been thru anything like this. I barely remember the 70s and the gas rationing but knew it existed. When I had the register for the draft we just bombed Libya, then the Gulf War, recession in early 90s, 2000s, and 2007-2009, 9/11 changed things as well. The world and life will adjust. How you handle all this depends on your attitude, you can either deal with it and move forward, or let it drag you down. I am the kind of person that adjusts and looks for opportunities and adjust, I was supposed to be traveling a lot this year but adjusted to doing home improvements this year.
