The bad taste of better days

[sovay]

I just wish to submit it is unreasonable to have to deal with the outbreak of a rare disease in the middle of an ongoing pandemic of a novel virus which far too many people are treating with pure denial because they got bored with it, thanks. "One expert told Reuters the recent outbreak of monkeypox could be due to increased travel after COVID restrictions dropped." Wheeee.

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[kore]

I know I got All The Vaccines when I was a kid, despite my parents being Christian Scientists, but the records got lost about fifty moves ago and it seems they stopped inoculating babies against smallpox right around when I was born. :-/

One doctor said something in a news report that absolutely chilled me -- that he thought he'd see people masking up and getting vaxxed and taking precautions if they saw a loved one or friend horribly die of covid. He just said, "I thought that would do it, but I was wrong," in total despair.

[ethelmay]

I was thinking I ought to have gotten it as I was born a decade or so before it was eradicated, but I think by then they weren't giving it to babies, only older children, maybe teens, I forget, so by the time I was at the usual age it was no longer routine. I should ask my older siblings how old they were when they got it.

[ethelmay]

(I may very well be completely wrong about the age thing, so don't quote me.)

[lauradi7dw]

It was given to people who were five when I was a kid (in an area that had no public kindergarten) so that immunity would kick in before registering for first grade. We got the polio sugar cubes at the elementary school a few years later (whole families came for that, not just the students).

[ethelmay]

It might have been a booster that my siblings got later rather than the first shot. My impression was that they were older than five. But you know how anecdotal family info can get distorted.