I used to love to read about diseases and epidemics.

[raccoon]

About a yellow fever epidemic in Louisiana. About the Black Death. About the 1918 influenza. About Ebola.

Not any more.

[PortTack]

1. Same..and medicine was my profession

[Ocelot II]

2. Same here. Used to think it was interesting, now I know it's scary AF.

[wnylib]

6. I was crazy enough to get a DVD of Contagion

during the height of the pandemic when people were dying by the thousands everywhere. I had not seen it before covid.

Strangely, it helped me cope by analytically comparing the film to real life for accuracy of what it was like. Making an analytical comparison helped keep my feelings of anxiety at bay.

The DVD came in a 2 for 1 film package. The other film was Outbreak, which I had already seen once, so it gave me another pandemic fear for comparison.

[The Blue Flower]

3. I liked reading about public health rising to the challenge

Unfortunately, knowing how we did it in the past created false expectations for me. We're not the country we used to be.

[hlthe2b]

4. "May you live in interesting times" is the Chinese curse that has come to pass...

[raccoon]

5. That's a big 10 four.