Going back a bit; NJ mentioned 1968 which I remember very well - summer days boating etc. etc. A lovely year at the end of my schooldays and unshadowed.
I have vague memories that there was a 'flu about, so I've just checked and it was the 'Hong Kong' or -since he was popular about then- 'Mao' flu. Yes it killed about the same number of people, it was a pandemic etc.. I scarcely noticed it, everything and everyone carried on as normal. I don't remember this constant drip, drip scare story from the media. I.m.o. it is the media that has caused this continuation of an appalling, original over-reaction. Epidemics happen. Let us know about it and what is going on and then leave it to our common sense, please. I would rather live my life than sit around just living and, from what I heard on Any Answers this afternoon, I hold the majority view.
Leave it alone media, please, unless there is an upsurge. Let us know where the risk areas are and leave it to our common sense - but that doesn't make good headlines, does it?