mike wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2026 2:35 pm
Judas Maccabeus wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2026 2:26 pmWe are not discussing research here. We are discussing an epidemic that is in progress, and two families are mourning dead children. We are putting out a fire.
Do you have good information that the people who died are in fact children? Reports I read state that the ages, identities, and specific circumstances have not been publicly released.
i well remember the terror measles-(i had more than 1 type) mumps, chicken pox, etc., brought to my mother (my father was probably worse, but even more stoic than my mother) as these diseases made their way through our home, 6 children.
The community. Schools rarely closed. Assignments were sent home.
i remember the piles of textbooks coming home. as-if.
With the anguish she had for us, getting these diseases as children, she warned us, because adults did FAR worse, esp males.
She didn’t even mention the elderly, or those with other ailments.
i’m sure she knew. She didn’t want to “overload”. It was overload being so sick.
It was awful. It seemed like, every spring some new deadly disease would rear its ugly head.
Fear and dread of polio was the worst from what i recall. Everyone knew. Everyone feared these diseases.
Doctors made house calls.