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Finding Hemingway
Only people who I know that enjoyed the CERB life were single young people who went from working part time to making double to sit at home.
For people with families the stress and desperation must have been awful. I’ve only been unemployed for a month out of the last 20 years, but it was stressful enough for me. I couldn’t imagine having it happen when there’s so much doom and gloom, and very little hope for the future.
Like anything this is a choice for people to think about. We're all responsible for whatever mental outlook we have and choosing doom and gloom is always an ill advised choice. Choosing hope is a choice. Gotta say it, but people throughout recorded history had it a hell of a lot harder than anybody can even dream about today and those people were filled with hope and unbridled optimism at the slightest chances of being able to build lives and some prosperity.
That we have people moping about how hard they have it now, I'll say it, is a disgrace to the forefathers that worked hard to bring you to New World lands with untapped resources and opportunities. Living in the first world, born here, having what others in the world can only dream of, and being despondent about it? Time for a reality check.
If a moderate pandemic kicked the shit out of our collective fortitude what would a WW or a great depression or a Cold war do?
Where did our collective resilience go?
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