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In between the "we had Mutual Assured Destruction[0] drills at school" generation and the "we had active shooter drills at school" generation, there must have been a (relatively) well adjusted "we had no such drills at school" generation?

[0] get under your desk, put your head between your legs, and kiss your ass goodbye.

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Yeah, born in 1971 and graduated HS in 1989 and was in between the nuclear war drills and the active shooter drills.

Of course we did see The Day After on live TV and caught the tail end of the cold war.

Someone born in 1980/1981, graduated in 1999 would have been 4 or 5 by the time the Reagan-Gorbachev summit happened and then would have only had a few months in HS after Columbine happened. So optimum sanity was probably the cohort born around 1976-1980 or so.

Those of us born in 1986 (in New York at least) had neither form of drills

> Soon after the shooting at Columbine High School in April 1999, schools began implementing active shooter drills. Soon, districts across the country followed suit. By the 2005-06 school year, 40 percent of public schools drilled students on lockdown procedures.

Probably started almost immediately after you graduated.

The 90s before Columbine were pretty chill on this front. Just had to worry about bullies, not shooters or nukes.

1982 through 1992, at least, had neither. There were fire evacuation drills twice a year, and a schoolbus evacuation drill a couple of weeks after school started in the fall.

Depends on where you lived. Where I lived, we had air raid drills. We also had tornado drills.

Where I lived we had earthquake drills...and earthquakes. Not a lot of fear mongering though during that time so that was nice.

> well adjusted

We just grew up with AIDS, the ozone hole, global warming, the gulf war, Panama, Somalia, gang shootings on the freeway, the massive earthquake that was supposed to crack California off and set it adrift in the sea...

AIDS, Iraq, Panama, and Somolia are avoidable.

Wear sunscreen.

Most murders are targeted and chances of getting randomly shot are low.

Earthquakes are scary but you can prepare for them to reduce your risk of injury or death.

AIDS is avoidable now. It wasn't when nobody knew what caused it, and it was in the blood supply, and educating people about condoms was prohibited.

We didn't start the fire, it's always been burning since the world's been turning.

Jesus, the first guy to ever get 'cancelled' for mere words.

a little more than mere words; IIRC the "Cleansing of the Temple" involved at least a whip...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleansing_of_the_Temple

Theologians argue as to whether there was Battery or not, but Assault is pretty much stipulated.

I you had said Acid Rain i would have thought you were quoting Bill Murrays Scrooge promo from Scrooged.

I went to school in Australia from about 2003 - we never had anything other than fire drills.

Growing up in the 80s in the southern US we had earthquake drills and tornado drills. I feel lucky that those were the biggest threats I felt as a child.

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