If yiu didn't fight in WW II.....

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On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 03:56:47 -0500, Cub Driver
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I was born in 1963. Kind of assinine to feel that I "missed" something
that
was over before I was borne.

Then how do you explain the fascination with WWII aircraft and flight
sims?

I own a lot of books on medieval history. Doesn't mean I have any
desire to participate in the Black Death on a personal level, nor that
I feel I missed out on anything by not dying of pneumonic plague.


Nice insight. While I've worked in biohazard hot labs, I never worked
specifically with Yersinia pestis (cause of plague). Other nasty
things, including some that have been weaponized, yes.

It's a lot better feeling to know that I could recognize plague [1] and
how to treat it. Lots of good what-if stories where an advanced aircraft
gets sent back in time -- fewer about medical supplies and the necessary
knowledge going back.

[1] Or misrecognize it, but it was a confusing enough case that the first
specialist called in at least did a doubletake. I had called for
help, as the on-duty medical tech, because while I knew bubonic
plague was unlikely in my geographic area, as opposed to the American
Southwest where it does show up periodically, this is NOT something
that you guess about.

Turned out that the patient had bad acne, with a number of especially
dark purple pimples. He had just gotten a very bad sunburn with
blisters, and the liquid-filled blisters on top of pimples served
as magnifiers -- they did look somewhat like the characteristic skin
buboes of plague. His fever was due to overheating.