Plum's new positive outlook has been slightly marred by people not appreciating that he's a selfless warrior, bravely fighting on the frontlines. While some old man who fought in WW2 (once) and raised 30 million for charity (once) has been given the hero status that continues to elude Plum. It really is a cruel world
Mate if you wanna call me a miserable bastard use the quote function, don't hide behind the whole "people," thing.
And sorry for being a bit cynical about some guy's one charitable act (which shouldn't be necessary in the first place) being celebrated as if it were a miracle, with his family being completely set up for life via book and song deals, whilst the people actually putting their lives on the line are constantly shat upon, robbed of pay-rises, and then given nothing but claps and rainbows as 'thanks'. The utter hero worship our media has thrown onto the guy is a reminder that, after a year of being on the front lines, my entire experience and those of millions more don't matter because they're not 'marketable' and 'wholesome'. It's bloody tiring, and so is trying to act as if things are all hunky dory when they're absolutely 100% not.
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Imagine being so self absorbed that you literally shit on a WWII vet while claiming you’re “actually putting your life on the line.” Hey dipshit! This dude fought in fucking WWII. 800,000 British forces died in that war. This dude had a 1:8 chance of never coming home. As a person under 50 you have like a 0.001% chance of the virus killing you.
Just STFU about the “front lines” when you’re trying to elevate yourself above a fucking war hero.
These peeps forget that even if you weren't fighting in the war WWII was still a far worse experience for anyone in Europe or Asia.
If you weren't imprisoned, conscripted or shot by your own government, you'd probably end up doing hard (slave) labour or hiding in fear of starvation, freezing, sickness, rape or death somewhere in the basement in case either the Allies of Axis turned your house into rubble, sometimes by accident.
The worst the vast majority of people in lockdown have lived through is:
- Running out of toilet paper for a day or 2 (but having plenty of substitutes)
- Not being able to see or talk to people in person (but being able to communicate with phones and internet)
- Not being able to go to places or event they want to visit for leisure
When my grandpa was marched to Berlin to work on the railroads in Germany, my grandma couldn't ZOOM with him daily.
You had no idea if your family was still alive or even where they ended up. Today the problem is the hospitals can't handle the number of patients, back then the problem was that there likely was no hospital and if there was a hospital they didn't have any supplies or trained staff and just put some beds in a church or something where you could lie down to either recover or die.
And that was just say France, UK or the Netherlands during the worst of the fighting.
If you were in Poland or Russia the only thing you could do is pray that the Germans had ran out of bullets and fuel by the time they found your dwelling and you weren't on Stalins shit list.
The pandemic is the most challenging event in Europe since WW2 for sure. But that's comparing apples and oranges really.
