I remember when both types of polio vaccines came out, and how happy everyone was, and being able to follow through with plans to, for example, go to the beach, whereas before staying home at the slightest scare was the only way parents could try to save their kids, and watching public-service movies after lunch in school about how Little Emily was doing great in her Iron Lung and the camera pulling back at the end to show rows & rows of Little Emilys and the noise of the breathing apparatus growing louder and louder.
And I remember being lined up in the school corridors during the school day to get the sugar cube with the red goo and later the shot, and being watched to be sure I finished the red goo and the palpable relief everybody felt.
Yeah, let's bring on a Pandemic for every disease mankind ever suffered from......
Cholera, anyone?