Six year old great nephew wore my gloves, which he had to keep taking off to participate in the arts and crafts activities. He had no interest in the part of the rally that was not in the Kid Zone, and was also not prepared for the damp. My brother-in-law took him home early.

I remember polio. It's almost eradicated. The Rotary club booth on Patriot's Day (it's one of their causes) said that we're down to just a couple of locations in Africa. I now need to know more about the British quarantine solution (aside from the famous plague town that quarantined itself). I tend to fall back on the popular idea of the Great Fire almost literally burning the plague out of London. And of course it's not gone, it's just way down and treatable with antibiotics (for the time being).