[ohyoutravel]

2000 and 2002 were just two years apart, inconsequential [to world politics and the state of the world].

[ggm]

2018 and 2020 were just two years apart, and no significant difference in the world economy or health indicators took place across the interval. (/not)

[marcosdumay]

Hum... Was 2001 so long ago that people already forgot it happened?

The GP is saying the same thing as you.

[ggm]

I suspect the HN cohort increasingly has people not born then.

I had a mortgage during the 17-27% interest years of the eighties. I think about that when people kibbitz about inflation these days.