I've been distancing myself from Facebook of late. A few things happened, that maybe I should drop in my own LJ including that really made me facepalm.
I have found myself looking up that quote, all the time, to make sure I write it down properly. It was Churchill that said, "Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it." Both statements have merit. Some sources say Churchill was paraphrasing Santayana. However, I think Churchill was saying something a bit different; one need not have lived through a point in time to learn from what happened during it.
One of the things I find horrifying in this pandemic is the people that have taken the stance of having pandemic parties to get it and get it over with. Given the age of those involved, they probably didn't have parents or grandparents that were dropped into rooms with other children that had chicken pox, mumps, measles, etc. By the time one was readily available in the US, my kids had already had them
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Yes, Churchill was paraphrasing Santayana. Santayana wrote the line in his work "The Life of Reason" in 1905. Yes, there is a point to Churchill's phrasing, but it's really just a follow-up to Santayana's sentiment. We should strive to learn from the actions and mistakes of the past, that's part of preparing for the inevitability of the masses forgetting what they never knew to begin with. But the masses will, inevitably, fail to remember.
And I also find it equally horrifying how so many people are treating this disease so casually. Imagine thinking that it's okay to expose your child to the possibility of permanent lung damage, heart damage, kidney damage, blood clotting, etc. These dipshits would probably throw "polio parties" if the disease had just emerged instead of Covid-19.
Just to clarify, it was the specifically chickenpox vaccine that wasn't available in the US until after my kids had already had the virus.
I was talking with a friend in my age group about the blasé attitude some people have toward Covid-19. The conversation boiled down to pretty much what you said. They didn't live through anything like this and don't believe the people that have experienced epidemics if not pandemics.
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I have found myself looking up that quote, all the time, to make sure I write it down properly. It was Churchill that said, "Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it." Both statements have merit. Some sources say Churchill was paraphrasing Santayana. However, I think Churchill was saying something a bit different; one need not have lived through a point in time to learn from what happened during it.
One of the things I find horrifying in this pandemic is the people that have taken the stance of having pandemic parties to get it and get it over with. Given the age of those involved, they probably didn't have parents or grandparents that were dropped into rooms with other children that had chicken pox, mumps, measles, etc. By the time one was readily available in the US, my kids had already had them ( ... )
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And I also find it equally horrifying how so many people are treating this disease so casually. Imagine thinking that it's okay to expose your child to the possibility of permanent lung damage, heart damage, kidney damage, blood clotting, etc. These dipshits would probably throw "polio parties" if the disease had just emerged instead of Covid-19.
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I was talking with a friend in my age group about the blasé attitude some people have toward Covid-19. The conversation boiled down to pretty much what you said. They didn't live through anything like this and don't believe the people that have experienced epidemics if not pandemics.
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