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Scrivener7

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3. I'm old enough to remember when measles was eradicated.

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Fri Jan 30, 2026, 01:33 PM

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I think we lived through the United States's golden age, kids. Heights in health and longevity, steadily increasing rights for women and non-white people, steady increases in the distribution of comfortable income and wealth.

We had all of that.

And in just a few short years, we've lost it.

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