Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently.

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12. For this Boomer, this is very much like the feel of the Cuban Missle Crisis

It affected everyone, could hit anywhere, and no one knew when or where it might happen.

People were "prepping" (the word did not exist back then) and getting ready to hunker down to await the worst. My Dad stockpiled water and food and set up an evacuation plan for the family. People down the street built a fall out shelter.

It may have been worse where I lived in Central Florida than in some parts of the country but from what I saw on the news people felt this directionless dread all over the country. Everyone knew that if it started, it would affect not just the places in reach of the missiles in Cuba, it would affect the entire world.

After that the 1960s were one thing after another - the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, the chaos of the 1968 Democratic Convention, and the complete remaking and turnover of society. But the Missile Crisis was the beginning. I'm having flashbacks to those days.