Two Points
One Point
As a very young child, I think I had a passport from age 4 or 5, onward, but at that age, even? One serious recollection was a separate sheet of paper that fit into the passport, showed a list of vaccinations. It was required for international travel.
Simple as that. Headed towards hot or cold foreign climes, one had to be prepared, and there were questions asked. Get that Malaria, Yellow Fever, or whatever vaccination.
Can’t say I recall, and maybe I can blame some of my erratic behaviors or idiopathic health issues on the vaccinations — but realistically? I doubt it.
It was a simple requirement, proof of vaccination before entering a subtropical country, varied by location, destination, and originating point.
Second Point
This is more than a decade but less than three decades in the past. It’s about international travel — again — but as an alert adult — as a semi-literate adult-aged person, man-child to some, but whatever, I had a style of travel that worked for me.
Twice, a couple of times, overseas, I would see — judgment call here, some warnings apply — people of PacRim heritage, best guess is Japanese, wearing the now-common face-mask. It was a cultural, and possibly ethnic safety guideline. Sitting in a metal tube hurdling through the upper atmosphere with a limited oxygen supply — sure, easy to see why a simple surgical-styled mask made sense for some.
Didn’t make sense to me, but I’m not of that heritage. Like it, but not really my people, so to speak, again, dated points of reference. I also wasn’t raised in a crowded state.
Second Point part two
But flash forward to a decade spent bouncing around the US, most the southwestern states, but whatever. Across the wing seat, a female of approximate form, she had on a mask, too. Virgo. Health conscious, and perhaps it wasn’t a bad idea. I’ve no idea.
But the mask works. It isn’t 100% effective, but Virgo-tested — it must offer some form of protections.
Who but a Virgo would ask, “Is Mercury Retrograde?”
The Portable Mercury Retrograde
