Anzac Day makes me think about the low bar we now use to describe sacrifice, in this pandemic. We missed…

Anzac Day makes me think about the low bar we now use to describe sacrifice, in this pandemic. We missed holidays, income, school, work, social outings. For less than 2 years. Our ancestors in the world wars had 10 years of barely enough food to eat. /1

They lost 100,000 soldiers. We sacrifice our kids and elderly. Deaths then are commemorated a century later. Ours won’t even be counted today, let alone named. Lest We Forget should now be Lest We Remember. Death is now invisible sacrifice on the altar of the Economy. 2/2