Day 52: 2020 Pandemic. And We Won’t Even Have The Roaring Twenties

2 May 2020

I studied World War I at West Point. We all know about the Great Depression that began in 1929. But the 1920s? All I know really is they were called the “Roaring Twenties”. I always assumed that after the horror of World War I (truly, truly horrible beyond description) and the Lost Generation, everyone just kind of partied.

I didn’t realize that even more than the horror of WWI, the reason people partied was because of the 1918 Flu, which actually lasted two years and killed anywhere from 20 to 50 million people. No one really knows the true cost. But it was vicious. Trump’s own grandfather went out for a walk one day, came home, didn’t feel well, and was dead that night.

I think after the double whammy of the war and that pandemic, people went a little nuts. They got almost a decade of it, then the Great Depression slammed everyone and it pretty much lasted until World War II. What can you say? That sucked.

People are going a little nuts now. And we’ve got another Great Depression upon us. So we won’t get the Roaring Twenties. We’re still in the pandemic’s early stage. I know states are opening, but wait until they get slammed like New York City was. We’re in the even earlier stage of Greater Depression (should we call it that?) or GDII?