It's rare that I wish I had multiple upvotes to give, but this is one of those times. I'm just commenting to raise the visibility of a comment that reads so simply that I feel it could be easily overlooked, and yet says something so profound.
A colleague once grew vociferously angry when I disagreed with his claim that we were lucky to be alive now, and not at say the beginning of the 20th century, living through pandemics and multiple world wars. You stated my point more eloquently than I was able to at the time.
