Plague PoemsJan 27, 2023
It is not uncommon
to wonder
if perhaps you
are turning into
your mother or your father
and while there may be
a strong family resemblance
you aren’t really turning into
your mother or father
for at your age
they had not endured
a plague.
Show threadFeralRobotsJan 27, 2023

@plaguepoems
My parents lived through the Polio epidemic & period when it was *endemic*, until it wasn't. Lots to unpack in comparing the two.

One thing standing out for me is we had the power to do something about it in ways their generation didn't.

Another is they had clear link betw polio-caused paralysis & polio, whereas we have decades of practice refusing to see diseases that look like Long COVID. That said "post-Polio syndrome" wasn't widely recognized until most who had it were dead.

Show threadRaven OnthillJan 27, 2023

@FeralRobots @plaguepoems I think a better comparison is tuberculosis, which is airborne.

Working on an article…

Show threadFeralRobotsJan 29, 2023
@ravenonthill
I suspect there's value in visiting both. Polio was terrifying in ways that TB apparently never was. Long COVID looks a lot more like TB than it does like polio.
@plaguepoems
Show threadFeralRobotsJan 29, 2023
@ravenonthill
...also looking forward to seeing your thoughts.
@plaguepoems
Show threadRaven OnthillJan 29, 2023

@FeralRobots @plaguepoems Here's the article. It's a covid/TB comparison; it turns out that many of the measures taken against TB would be effective against covid, but people aren't nearly as afraid of covid.

https://adviceunasked.blogspot.com/2023/01/controlling-airborne-diseases.html

Controlling Airborne Diseases: Tuberculosis and Covid

Controlling Airborne Diseases: Tuberculosis and Covid Another airborne disease, tuberculosis, was suppressed during the 20 th c...

Show threadFeralRobots
@ravenonthill
Thanks!
@plaguepoems
Jan 29, 2023 at 2:34amWeb