Kikhost and Covid19

 Yes, I am in the group. The over 65 group, 1B. The group Illinois says is now eligible for the Covid19 vaccine, after the essential workers. I have been downtown to have Covid vaccine #1 and in 10 days I will go again for vaccine #2.  There doesn't seem to be enough of the supply, so many of my friends are sitting on their laptop hitting refresh over and over again searching for a venue where the vaccine is available. I feel lucky and I understand the frustration of those who have yet to find an available appointment. What I don't understand? I don't understand those that will not be vaccinated and worse yet the "anti-vaxers". Those that deny their children (and all those around them unable to be vaccinated for health reasons) the blessing of never knowing the many illness' that plagued and decimated our ancestors.

Sweden, Indexed Death Records,  Håcksvik,  Ålvsborg, March 1884

March 27 Axel, son of Anderson, Linus, farmer and wife
                Karlsdotter, Johanna Lena, of the farm Skåremo              1yr  9mo 5 days old     Kikhost 
March 28 Johan Bernhard, son of Andersson Linus, farmer and wife
                Karlsdotter, Johanna Lena, of the farm Skåremo                     7mo 22 days old    Kikhost           

This is my grandmothers maternal Aunt, Lena Johanna Karlsdotter. Axel and Johan Bernhard were her baby boys who died a day apart of "Kikhost". "Kikhost" is Pertussis (Whooping Cough), a disease seldom seen today thanks to childhood immunizations. If a vaccine had been available in her day, would her babies have been worth saving?

   Don't even ask what I think of the selfish fools who won't wear masks.

   Don't even,