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Idiom: A different beast
Good day there.
How are you holding up?
At the risk of sounding patronizing and stating the obvious, I’ll say the world is a different place.
We can go so far as to say the world now is a different beast.
In simple terms, the idiom, a different beast, means something is totally different.
When you woke up today, the world was at war and has been at war since December 2019.
This war, however, is a different beast compared to the conflicts of our collective memory.
Japan has one of the most modern militaries, ah, self-defence forces in the world, but it was not created to fight this kind of war, and it is almost useless in defending Japan from damage.
Japan could hold its own in conventional warfare involving ships, guns, tanks, and airplanes.
The battle against COVID-19 is, on the contrary, a different beast.
Warships are useless, as we see with the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.
There are 100 infections, and now the entire ship (4,000 – 5000 sailors) has to be quarantined in Guam.
It’s supposed to be impossible to take out an American aircraft carrier, but covid-19 has done it.
This war we are fighting is a different beast.
The soldiers are medical staff in hospitals, and they fight it with masks, plastic face shields, plastic gowns and medical equipment.
Top politicians say nobody saw this coming, but they’re wrong.
It was predicted, but ships and guns are cooler than masks and ventilators, so the money went there.
Although this pandemic war is a different beast, we still need decisive action from our leaders.
People are dying every day, and many more will die.
Unfortunately, very few leaders are brave enough to make the right choice.
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Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).
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The higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100, the easier the passage is to read.