After 86 years, I cannot help reflecting on the past and how different it was. I must nevertheless hesitate and take note of everything going on in the world around me. 

Before 1963 when American medical researcher Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had successfully developed a poliomyelitis vaccine, we mostly disregarded the threat of infection and continued with life as usual.

The MMR vaccine was announced in the USA in 1963, and I was 28 years old. Published measles cases in the United States fell from hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands per year. These illnesses were regarded as a fact of life; before that, we stayed in bed until we recovered.

Now we have COVID, and it is regarded to be a pandemic because its effect is widespread. The pandemic is reported to have negatively affected many people’s mental health. It is worth considering that measles affects about 20 million people worldwide a year. In 1980, 2.6 million people died of measles, and in 1990, 545,000 died. (Wikipedia)

One cannot help wondering if this pandemic is a self-inflicted wound driven by opportunity and profit. It has become manifest that more than a third of 26 significant trials of Ivermectin for use on Covid has serious errors or signs of potential fraud. (BBC News)