Under virus conditions, do anyone’s words come back to you now with new meaning?

I knew someone who worked with an emergency aid program, helping victims of floods and tornadoes and so on. He once said, “I tell my trainees, don’t do relief work if you can’t take the abuse.”

People’s tendency to take out the anger, fear, frustration, and all the rest on the helpers seems so unjust, and yet now it seems understandable in some way. They’re suffering, and these folks are the nearest target. I’ve thought of his comment many times in the past six weeks, wondering how those on the front lines are managing the stress.

Have present circumstances given you new insight into some old speech or reading that you’re remembering now?