[yldstrk]

Don’t go home if it’s a risk to your family. Quit if you are too big a coward to do the job. It had to have been difficult treating people with polio, smallpox etc.

[ClearCase_guy]

Things were more straightforward in a Christian society. Service to God, service to others. Life is short, and we're all going to die, and eternity awaits those who live a Christian life. To tend the lepers or smallpox victims took bravery, but it was a bravery that was not uncommon.

Today? It's all about Me, and your disease is harshing my weekend.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

It had to have been difficult treating people with polio, smallpox etc.

One difference is that the symptomatic were quarantined in their homes.