The Half-Great Generation

Is that us?

We know what the Greatest Generation did - sacrificed life and limb (both often) and future and health to give us victory in the war.  What are we asked to do? ?
Wear a mask and stay home.

Big Deal.

And. we can work from home often, we even get paid by Uncle Sam for not working. We have 200 channel TV's and streaming, and video games, and on line shopping, and pizza delivered to our doors, and......some sacrifice.

And what do we do?

Complain, protest, object. (OK, that's in the American nature, our national DNA, but over masks and 6 feet between us and staying in??? Some sacrifice.  Already in 3 major examples I  know of, South Korea, India, and Texas, when the rules were lifted and people went back to "normalcy" horrible new virus outbreaks (and hundreds of deaths) occurred.

The "business of America" is NOT business - it's freedom. Yes to protest and Yes to NOT protest, to wear a mask, stay home, stay apart, and support those scientists, health officials, doctors, RNs, etc--all those we call "Heroes"--and who urgently ask us to stay home, wear a mask, stay apart, and NOT indulge in mass swimming at beaches, mass church services, mass bar hopping, mass messes.

Is that so much to ask of Americans, who still remember what sacrifice truly meant during WW2? As we applauded Captain Tom In England, and our American heroes of the Greatest Generation, can't we take their devotion to America to heart, do what little is asked today of us, and maybe, just maybe, be the Half-Greatest Generation of this decade?
 
It is so very little to ask of us.

I'm just sayin'...