to every member of congress. Not that the Rethugs would pay any attention, I suppose.

Said the one positive about schools closing for the rest of the year was that would end the school shootings for this school year

into the future.

shootings. Well, maybe not armed standoffs in WallMart parking lots over toilet paper robbery.

Sadly it will probably do little or nothing to decrease domestic violence shootings.

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and with no sports and other entertainment I fear domestic violence will rise

that domestic violence will escalate to a fever pitch.

I’ve a 5th grader, who is a student of history. He knows all about WWI and the Spanish Flu pandemic. He’s keeping up with all of the news and current political situation at home and abroad.

This pandemic will shape him in ways I cannot even imagine.

She was a "Child of the Depression" and it affected her whole life.

Will kids today be "Children of Climate Change", "Children of the Coronavirus", "Survivors of School Shootings"???

Will they be all three or will they survive?

I am really depressed now, think I will go outside and dig in the dirt to plant flowers.

she survived the 1918 Flu epidemic, and that one particularly affected little kids, if my mother's stories were accurate.

So, take heart. We have a candidate who seems good, and, well it's Spring. And for many kids this will be the most time with their parents attention they've had in ages.

but I do not believe she or any immediate family were sick. I will ask my siblings who are both older (I remind them often of that) if they remember any details.

and of cousins and friends who didn't survive.

Even though it was before jet travel, that flu got so widespread around America from the troops moving around by train, unwittingly passing it to every corner of the country.

Both in Iowa, where my Mom was from, and Missouri, where Dad grew up on a farm, there were some people who called it the "German flu" and blamed it on a effort by German sympathsizers to hurt America.

But my cousin shared this:


"The story Ernest (a very distant relative) told was that he was on a troopship coming home from WWI When the ship entered U.S. waters (NY Harbor), there were 96 people on board. Because of the flu, they would not let it dock By the time it was all over Ernest was one of the 3 survivors. For this, he received a Lifetime Disability payment from the government" he was described as a mean old cuss, this might explain that.

Quite a story.

entire life after that.

As someone posted recently: our parents and grand parents had to go to war, or endure the aftermath. All that is being asked of us now is that we sit on our couch and chill.