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I'm very glad Mr. Lesser is here answering these questions for us and expressing any amount of optimism for the future. However, I'm with you on this one.

I can't in good conscience refrain from pointing out the sad reality that the survivors still with us today were, by and large, children during the Holocaust. They were born into a world where it was already too late, Hitler's rise to power occurred before Mr. Lesser was born and the Nazi Party had attained complete control over Germany and begun to conduct forced sterilization by the time he was just 5 years old. His frame of reference begins with some of the very worst things that have ever been done but it does not include the gradual run-up.

As much as the term fascism has become exhausting, we do need to be vigilant. The parallels may not be there for the Holocaust but they absolutely are there for the 1920s. The folks we really need to be asking these questions to are, unfortunately, long gone.

I appreciate this reply immensely. I honestly wouldn't have expected disagreement over the general sentiment, it very much feels like everyone here is speaking the same language and just making some fine adjustments to line up perspectives.

Your own opinion is largely on point with the way I see things. We've very much made a lot of progress and are in a better position overall today than 80+ years ago but some alarm is warranted considering that some of our legal protections are actively being targeted.

It shouldn't feel the same because it's not the same. That's the beauty of the term parallels here, it's an explicit acknowledgment of the fact that two sets of circumstances can be so different as to never follow the same path yet still be driven in the same general direction by similar forces.

My experience with this kind of service was that the issues with oversight, attention to detail, and communication were virtually unchanged by COVID. It's 100% on the family to keep tabs on the home care people. Some of them are great, some not so much.

Inconsistency was the name of the game before COVID. The only added wrinkle during 2020 was inconsistent mask usage. It's easy to see how this is profitable when you look at how unbelievably fucking expensive it is and how questionable the care quality can be.