Posted by MarkB_MI on April 01, 2020 at 09:06:37 from (174.245.16.51):
In Reply to: Re: sickness posted by Billy Shafer on April 01, 2020 at 08:39:03:
> I am 69 and a lot of you are around my age.We grew up when things like this were common. Remember polio. No one went nuts like they are doing today.We lived with it.
I was old enough to remember when the Sabine polio vaccine was introduced. I remember the whole town lining up and walking through the local clinic to drink a cup of juice with the vaccine. Polio was certainly taken very seriously even though it was after the major outbreaks of the fifties. But let's look at the facts: Polio killed 3145 people in the US in the ENTIRE 20th century. Our current outbreak has killed almost THREE THOUSAND Americans in just a few weeks! We should be so lucky to have a pandemic as mild as polio.
The current pandemic is closer to the 1957 flu pandemic, which killed about seventy thousand Americans. But it was stopped by the early development of vaccine, so extreme measures like we have today weren't so necessary. No chance this time to get a vaccine in time to stop the pandemic.
I doubt anyone here remembers the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed over half a million Americans. If they did, I suspect they'd say to stay at home, and take this thing very seriously.
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