Everywhere I look on the internet I see memes about the “Quarantine Fifteen.” My neighbor (who never appears to gain an ounce) and I were each joking about our newly acquired guts–at a safe social distance, of course. And I’ve been in at least a half dozen Zoom meeting conversations chuckling about everyone’s weight gain during our confinement.
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A little over four weeks into staying at home for the greater good of stemming the spread of COVID-19, some of us may find ourselves wondering if this is one of those times that the world irreversibly changes. The wisdom of Solomon tells us there is nothing new under the sun… and that is certainly true. In fact, the older I get and the more I learn about many of the horrors of history, that truth is continually reinforced. History does periodically repeat itself, so in that sense, what’s new to us is not something new “under the sun.”
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