A friend was recently musing about the numbness and sense of dis-connectedness they are experiencing at present.

I understand that loss, or at least something similar.

I keep returning in my thoughts to the Influenza pandemic of 1918 (Spanish Flu), and those who perished in it, alongside the aftermath of the Great War.

I see parallel issues echoing through time, the increased Nationalism,  the moves towards fascism, and this economic downturn that preceded the Great Depression. 

And I can only stare in disbelief as I think “Here we go again.”