Dec 302016
Everybody keeps whinging about how bad 2016 has been.
A few old people died (and some not so old people). That’s sad, but it happens every year. And yes some of your childhood heroes died – that’s what happens when you get older.
And yes a few bad political things have happened in 2016.
But is it somehow specially bad? Try comparing it with some other notoriously bad years :-
| 1914 | Start of WWI which eventually killed millions of combatants. |
| 1918 | The beginning of the so-called Spanish flu pandemic which eventually killed up to 100 million people around the world. |
| 1939 | Start of WWII which eventually killed millions of combatants, and we learned just how evil humans can be when they put their minds to it. |
| 1945 | The first use of nuclear weapons. |
So however bad you thought 2016 was, there have been a few other years far worse.
