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[quote=Anonymous]I've been thinking a lot about how Americans are just so short-sighted, when it comes to history.  My mom was an older mom when she had me, and her mom was older when she had her, so I grew up hearing a lot of what most people consider ancient history.
Before antibiotics and vaccines (so especially before WWII), quarantines and similar were very ordinary parts of American life.  My mom always complained that her HS graduation trip to NYC was cancelled because some sailors brought in some disease (now I can't remember which), and all travel to NYC was cancelled.  She was home-quarantined at least once herself with a contagious childhood illness, and another time her mom and sibling were quarantined and she had to go live with a neighbor for weeks so she could still go to school.  (The neighbor was an awful cook and my grandmother, who was immune to whatever it was, used to sneak out  and leave cookies for her outside the window.)  So less than 100 years ago, this was  a very ordinary and expected part of life.  They would put a quarantine notice on your door and there were penalties for breaking it.  [/quote]

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