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"Just like the 1890s and the 2020s, they’ll play with the unvaccinated kids down the street and drink raw milk until dark. Then at daybreak, I’ll hand my children their metal lunch pails, button their fifty-button shoes, and they’ll shuffle off to their factory jobs." buff.ly/EOw4Nr5

mcsweeneys.netI’m Giving My Kids a ’90s Summer—the 1890s“Just like the 1890s and the 2020s, they’ll play with the unvaccinated kids down the street and drink raw milk until dark. Then at daybreak, I’ll hand my chi...

15/8/26, 1:20 am8 reposts53 likes

Rosanna Landis Weaver

@landisweaver.bsky.social

15 Aug

I had measles in the 1970s. The doctor brought in several interns/doctors to show them saying something along the line of "You might not see another one of these."

Mari Adkins

@marifromky.bsky.social

15 Aug

I was 18 months old in 1970 late. I had measles and chicken pox near concurrently - basically right on top of each other. I Al.ost died.

Rosanna Landis Weaver

@landisweaver.bsky.social

15 Aug

Wow. That sounds frightening.

Mari Adkins

@marifromky.bsky.social

15 Aug

of course I have no memory. I do have some scars on my face and a few other places. not really noticeable. my mom and her mom were trading days off from school and work to take care of me.