Many of us are old enough to remember polio: infants and kids were the targets of choice.
I certainly remember my parent's being meanies, not letting me play with the other kids in the spring or summer.
Kids were supposed to avoid gatherings.
Many parents would take turns keeping the kids as separate as possible.
As kids, what did we know, we buried our first social distancing somewhere in our pasts, though it was an annual event.
Funny, don't remember any social distancing in the school yards?
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Tonight PBS ran an hour of the 1918 Spanish influenza- the draft for WW I had just hit high gear, young men were housed in very crowded rooms and long lines.
Influenza killed the troop in Europe; young men on crowded troop ships-dying of influenza before they got to the battlefield.
Industry ramped up to provide armament, in crowed industrial plants
Our species has limited memories, or maybe we don't want to remember.
I certainly remember my parent's being meanies, not letting me play with the other kids in the spring or summer.
Kids were supposed to avoid gatherings.
Many parents would take turns keeping the kids as separate as possible.
As kids, what did we know, we buried our first social distancing somewhere in our pasts, though it was an annual event.
Funny, don't remember any social distancing in the school yards?
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Tonight PBS ran an hour of the 1918 Spanish influenza- the draft for WW I had just hit high gear, young men were housed in very crowded rooms and long lines.
Influenza killed the troop in Europe; young men on crowded troop ships-dying of influenza before they got to the battlefield.
Industry ramped up to provide armament, in crowed industrial plants
Our species has limited memories, or maybe we don't want to remember.