Originally Posted by
2seven0
I guess FDR was just a blithering fool to have opined that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself. Shake the fairy dust from your skirts and go out and live your life for crying out loud!
Originally Posted by
WhyFi
FDR had polio, founded the March of Dimes and focused a ton of effort on furthering the study communicable diseases. So yeah, kudos on the great example.
Originally Posted by
2seven0
True but so what? Not germain to the current situation.
If you don't think it's germain [sic], you either a) have no idea of what's going on now and what went on then or b) you have an exceptionally poor ability to apply past knowledge to similar situations. FDR wouldn't have suffered from either of these problems.