COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]

Makes sense

I do wonder if this would be increased if the pandemic year was their high school freshman or senior year, to not have all the social excitement and celebrating of starting or ending a chapter of their lives
Considering that Covid-19 was a once-in-a-century, not a lifetime event, Optimus, the fact that so many of our friends, classmates, co-workers, wives and girlfriends and husbands got extremely sick and many died worldwide due Covid is an experience where you thank God you're alive, you survived and mourn the 7-8 million people who died across this planet. We can all discuss, compare and try to make palpable, acute sense of our shared experiences later on. Very few people who mightve been 2-3 years old when H1N1 "Spanish Flu" pandemic that originated at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas in early 1918 that killed 4-5x more people then Covid did could describe how terrifying and fearful it was to live in those initial apacolyptic months in 1919 when schools, hospitals, stores, businesses all shut down and their were shady peddlers worldwide standing outside train stations, street cars or side of streets in major U.S. cities offering totally useless "spray cures" for protection from being infected.



This was an historical event that even in 2020-21 many of us recognized and knew was something we'll be trying to explain satisfactory to our children and grandchildren and even then, it's a medical, social and historical phenomenon and time period that will still be hard to quantify.