re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

America seems to be regressing to a pre-adolescent level of understanding basic concepts of health and hygiene. Hand-washing, butt-wiping, vaccination against preventable diseases…why do these suddenly seem like foreign concepts nowadays?

Because people nowadays don’t know who Typhoid Mary was or why she was significant, they’ve never seen wards full of iron lungs or met anybody who has a shriveled limb due to paralysis from polio, never buried a child who died from scarlet fever, or had to worry that eating a cheeseburger could mean a case of cholera.