General Chat

When they find so many deaths when there wasn’t a war going and their ancestors were not found because they were trapped on a cruise ship or died on one.

A bit like us finding so many child deaths in our great/grandparents time. Very sad.

or us looking back to the time of the Black Death.

Or to the Spanish flu which killed my Grandmother and her unborn baby :-(

'Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life'. (Yitzhak Rabin.)

I have seen a parish burial register where nearly all the entries on a few pages had a note to say scarlet fever was the cause.

Will 21st century technology avert or accelerate the Apocalypse?

They may well think, as I do when looking at causes of death, 'What a pity that there was no cure in those days.'

When I had my first child, fewer than 50 years ago, I was told by the surgeon that if this had happened fifty years previously both child and I would have died.

How grateful I was for medical advances and always will be. <3

This pandemic will be extremely well documented.

I am sure it will provide a lot of fuel for academic research.

In 1946 my mother-in-law lost a baby at 12 hours old and the cause of death was "prematurity, 7 month baby". These days babies born much earlier have a very good chance of survival. As Joy says, thank goodness for medical advances.

Kath. x

I sometimes worry about some 'negative' medical advances - if that makes sense.