@SlimTrae yeah I wish I did have the guys name. I’d like to follow up myself. I guess that’s the negative part of listening to talk radio in the car making frequent stops. You pick up some interesting information but only bits and pieces. Influenza of the era killed more people than the war itself did. I have read one reason the war ended was the large amount of sickness and death from the pandemic of the era. Then he started talking about pandemics in 1957 and the late 1960’s. Something I just started reading up on. The pandemic of the late 50’s got very little attention in the press as the news was all about Russia and space. I had a similar issue today, there was a recent article in the NYT discussing some issues with the the amount of virus triggering positive tests. Apparently it was quite controversial as the guest was arguing it should have been on the front page and picked up by every media outlet as it was a good piece of investigational journalism that wasn’t politicized but once again I’m trying to pick up this news as I’m driving around making stops. It’s annoying as now I want to know what the article said but what do I do? Google covid article in NYT? Where will that get me?

So anyway as far as the roaring twenties being brought about by people getting back to normal at the end of a pandemic, the end of the war, both, I guess you can find a bunch of different theories. It’s hard to put ourselves in the mindset of others. Shit I work with some young people who were just kids around 9/11 and they ask me how it changed things. I did a little talk on it not even realizing it’s been 19 years now and I’m talking to some 22 year olds. I had to stop myself and reset.

Later I had a talk with my director, his uncle just passed. His uncle lives in Scotland he had two negative Covid tests in the hospital a few weeks prior to his death, his family got the death certificate and it lists cause of death as Covid. He isn’t accusing anyone of anything they are just trying to figure out wtf is going on. I then asked him if it’s denial and rationalization that keeps us sane as we walk around knowing death is coming. Just wanted his opinion, I think he’s still thinking about it.