Yeah, but there is a term for that - it’s called ‘life’.

Does anyone really think there is a big cheering squad out there cheering on COVID? It’s a PANDEMIC of a disease with probably four or five times the lethality of seasonal influenza and that sucks. Some people are going to die prematurely, and it won’t just be the old and it won’t just be the idiots who fly wing suits through the trees or arches on cliffs for the thrill of seeing how close they can come without dying. Nor will it be just the morbidly obese or the guy who has smoked three packs a day since he was a teenager.

And it didn’t help that since a pandemic like this hasn’t come around for a hundred years neither our world governments or even the public health people were experienced enough or wise enough to handle it well. I get that.

But it ain’t a WWIII either, or even a WWII. Yep, it’s going to screw over your life for awhile, in fact it’s going to screw over EVERYONE’S LIVES, so you do what humanity has been doing since Neanderthal times, you take the best options you can to get you and your family through this.

Flying? It’ll come back, And with all the people that have now been discouraged from going into/completing their training, it will come back with a vengeance for those that can stick with it but even then it will be subject to the next pandemic to come along.

But ‘woe is me,’ ain’t helpful. Work hard and take the best options available to you to get you and yours through this. And if the cyclic ups and downs of airline flying are not something you can face, look elsewhere for a career. But this is what life is really like. $h|T sometimes happens and you need to roll with the punch and go on.