Should we all wear masks outside home?

[HockeyMom]

57. I'm 71 and grew up in Manhattan

McDonald's first opened in the MidWest in the 50's. There weren't any in NYC when I was young.

I had all those diseases before the age of 2. Scarlet Fever at 6. Not a disease of the 1800's! It comes from strep. I had strep a lot as a young child. Yes, we had antibiotics then, but as we now know if given too much they become ineffective. Both the other poster and I lived through the 1957 and 1968 Flu Pandemics.

Maybe living on a rural farm made one healthier but NYC certainly wasn't very healthy back then. We played on sidewalks. Turned on fire hydrants and went barefoot in the streets along with dogs, and police horses, doing their business. Many apartments did not have toilets in their units. Community toilets in the hallways. Exposed to a LOT of germs all around. Much worse in those days than today.

I think the point the other poster was trying to make was that we survived all that and have lived into our old age. As the saying goes, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger". Our immune systems were working on overload.