Originally Posted by
BrunswickDawg
You do realize that all the things we are being asked to do now - masks, quarantines, limiting gatherings, contact tracing, shutting down some aspects of life - were all done in the past to combat those diseases. We also took those things seriously, because we cared about our neighbors instead only caring about "my freedoms". Why do you think each county in every state has a public health departments? Most of those departments were the front lines to combat local outbreaks of the diseases you are talking about - they did that hard work of establishing and maintaining quarantines when Timmy exposed his friends to polio after catching it at summer camp. We shut down things regularly 100 years ago to combat these type of outbreaks - yellow fever, measles, polio, etc etc. What we are experiencing now on a global scale is what "normal" was during the times when all those diseases were issues, they were the actions communities had to take to survive.