[Magdalen] Federal court backs law removing religious exemption from vacc...

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In a message dated 8/31/2016 10:34:26 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:

Heck, I  remember BEING quarantined for measles and mumps (possibly rubella
too,  although my recollections are a little foggy and run together) in  
that
awful year I was in 4th grade, when we had everything *except* chicken  pox,
which we'd had earlier! And it was the summer just before that I came  home
to learn that a neighbor boy in my grade (but not in my class) had  died of
polio. These idiot parents don't have a CLUE and I wish I could  slap it
into  them!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
 
I remember the yellow (I think) placards that were affixed to the front  
door
of a home with an afflicted child.  The exception was scarlet fever  and 
those
placards were red.  We were especially terrified of scarlet fever  which 
seems
odd today when a small handful of antibiotic pills would cure that  
completely.
 
The polio epidemics were really quite awful.  Since we had the  lake
property, we spent the affected summers in isolation there, and my
mother ventured into town only to pick up groceries she had arranged  by
phone.
 
That polio scare all passed with the first vaccines which came to the
Minneapolis area in the summer of 1962,  The interns (not  internists!)
from the Minneapolis General Hospital - there were 46 of us - took
turns overseeing those clinics which daily featured tens of thousands  of
locals lining up for their shots.  It was a mass production  lineup.
 
 
 
David S.