From an old newspaper....forgot the date. A family in Irondequoit NY had smallpox. They were kept totally isolated. People in their goodness would leave baskets of food on their porch. I believe most of the family survived. Haven't read the article in years but it did catch my eye.
Just wait, by next week the people assigned to keep an on the family will be asleep at the wheel and members of the family will be caught doing carry-out at Popeyes.
Many years ago I ran across a newspaper clipping that told of my great-great grandparents' house being sealed off and quarantined for measles or mumps (or some such thing). That's the way it was done.
Mr. niteowl77
My mother lived in Phoenix in the late 1920s, early 1930s and used to talk about quarantines. She said it was fairly common and people would leave things the people might need on the doorstep. We were much smarter then, the problem is we seem to think we are much smarter now and are too worried about “feelings” to worry about the things we really should.
A small Colorado town, a little less than a century ago, isolated itself to keep the Spanish Flu from decimating its people. As a result, Gunnison weathered the pandemic largely unscathed, while millions and millions died throughout the rest of the nation and the world. No one got off the train in Gunnison, and travelers on the roads into town were turned away. The townspeople survived on their food stores and the plentiful game in the area.
There would be little prospect of any large city or town "going Gunnison" to try to escaped an Ebola pandemic, but some small isolated communities might be able to pull it off.
I’m old and we were quarantined back in the early 40s because of Scarlet Fever.
A sign was posted on the door also.
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