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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[ethelmay]

Unfortunately smallpox immunity may not be lifelong. It's decades, for sure, but past forty or fifty years, who knows.

[lauradi7dw]

The person at the health department who gave it to me cheerfully said "Now you never have to worry about it again," but even then people did worry. When it was learned (a dozen years earlier) that someone passing through town on a train was infected, the college my mother was attending had all the students re-done in a just-making-sure way.
My parents-in-law lived in Queens at the time of a re-vaccination push in NYC. i wonder if they remember it
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/5/03-0973_article

[lauradi7dw]

"Aging population." I feel like I'm aging a lot more rapidly than I was in 2008, but still kind of reassuring
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2610468/

[sovay]

I feel like I'm aging a lot more rapidly than I was in 2008, but still kind of reassuring

I appreciate this article; I've sent it on to my parents.