There are few of the WWII and none of the pre WWII generation alive anymore, but ask them what it was like in the days of polio, mumps, etc before penicillin, vaccines, etc.
They’d tell you that when someone became ill, that person stayed at home under quarantine with a sign in the window noting such. No visitors.
It was deadly stuff back then as this Ebola is now. But unfortunately we don’t have the wisdom and common sense of that generation running the country anymore. Instead we’ve got a college professor raised overseas by a hippie radical leading us.
I remember the 50s. I remember that most of my older cousins had polio. I didn’t because my Mom kept me home and washed everything in clorox. She also ironed sheets at midnight and worked all the time in the house in an OC way.
I remember the signs in the windows and the iron lungs and how swimming pools were off limits to us and all of that.
I also remember lining up at the high school for the sugar cubes with the new vaccine. The line snaked through town for blocks. I recall that is was a fine fall day but I could be wrong.