Op-Ed: Getting inspiration from the Greatest Generation's economic hardship and shared sacrifice – CNBC

There’s been a meme going around the internet pointing out, “Your grandparents were called to war. You’re being called to sit on your couch. You can do this.”

It seems extremely important to remember that there are things that are truly unprecedented and new and those that are, however tragically, new to us.

Yes, of course, there are elements of this tragedy, now playing out, that are truly unprecedented. The speed of the economic shutdown, the emptiness of major cities and a few other realities with which we must come to terms.

Other aspects are just new to us. The 1918 flu required “social distancing.” 

A host of pandemics from cholera to polio were equally, if not more virulent. And those who came before

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