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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/09/why-2020-feels-like-the-worst-year-ever/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits
To get control of your nostalgia bias, take a more realistic view of history and really compare it with the present. The pandemic is scary, but at least you’re not a medieval peasant with the bubonic plague around every corner and with no understanding of how germs work.

Put the present into perspective by taking stock in what we do have, too. We are making progress socially and scientifically, and research teams around the world are working on vaccines for the coronavirus, a feat that wouldn’t have been possible even a hundred years ago.