[Mears]

I was quarantined in the 40s because of scarlet fever.

My brother had it and my mother and I were also quarantined.(My father had died)

She was on her own——no pay and groceries dropped off——nothing went out-—I was too young to remember how trash was handled..

A quarantine sign was posted on the door and the address was published.

It was inconvenient but no big deal.

People didn’t whine in those days.

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[ClearCase_guy]

My parents were born in 1932 and 1934. I remember they had stories of people (not themselves) who were in homes with signs on their door warning of illness. The details were lost on me. I kind of assumed the stories were handed down from their own parents, and were references to the Spanish flue of 1918. But perhaps it was scarlet fever or something else in the 1940s. I guess it's just how it was.

My father lost his father 1940 -- meningitis. I think that overall, America has really lost awareness of what pestilence really means. We assume we'll take a couple of pills and be OK. Well, it ain't necessarily so.