‘Great article with interesting history, perspectives, and contrasts to the last year.’
indeed; I turned eight years old in 1957, and remember some media coverage, and some talk of it in the schools, and of course the shot distributions (done in doctor’s offices, if I remember correctly)...nobody I knew got sick, and nobody gave it much thought at all...
indeed; I turned eight years old in 1957, and remember some media coverage, and some talk of it in the schools, and of course the shot distributions
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Having joined the Navy in 1956, after a school I was assigned to the USS Henrico (APA-45) in Aug 1957 and the whole squadron sailed off to Asia in the middle of the ‘world pandemic’.
Admittedly with the amount of shots we had taken, I can’t ‘honestly’ say there was or wasn’t an ‘Asian Flu’ shot in there but - even if there was - we didn’t have this mask nonsense - and being a (very) young enlisted our berthing arrangements were not quite what one would or could call ‘social distancing’.
After my USN stint, the ONLY shot I have taken was a tetanus shot in the mid 1980s or so.
Other than possibly in the 1950s, I have NEVER taken the ‘annual’ flu shot and the last time I had medical contact was in 2007 for a double cataract operation... and any day now I suppose I will get my post op exam etc etc etc.
NOT suggesting or saying it works for all, but it does ‘work’ for me and I am sure there is a happy, sensible medium for such as me and the guy/gal that wears a double mask while alone in their car.