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U.S. Chief Justice Says Pandemic Pierces ‘Illusion of Certainty’

• anigbrowl 6y ago
  He said this year’s graduates would be “probably one of a handful of the most challenged high school graduating classes since the class of 1942,” during World War II. “Today we call those graduates part of the Greatest Generation,” Roberts said. “What are they going to call you? Your challenge is not as great, but it’s big and it’s yours.” I suspect this will be recalled as an example of counting one's chickens before they've hatched. It's not like we can say the instant crisis is past the peak.
  • hindsightbias 6y ago
    Everyone in 1942 had a job.
    • greenyoda 6y ago
      But many of those jobs involved fighting in World War II, in which many were killed, wounded or taken as prisoners of war.