This was one of my first stories, and not surprisingly, it required a bit of a rewrite. It was written at the beginning of COVID-19 when I was curious about what vaccination programs had previously been introduced to Vancouver Islanders. I have since learned that the only way to research an epidemic is to find the declaration of an outbreak. With this in mind, more research led me to the fact that the outbreak of this particular year was caused by a lone soldier returning from war. I cannot imagine the misfortune of this soldier who had survived a war and three years of absenteeism from home, only to die from a deadly disease at his doorstep—a tragic and significant missing part of the story that needed mentioning. The soldier's name was not given, nor did I look further into it, but I can imagine that he was buried at Fort Lawton for safety reasons.

I hesitantly added a bit about the other side of vaccinations. The Vivisectionists have their own story, but this story is not about them. I'll return to give them their own story someday. It was fair to mention this group whose cause led to the beginning of the end of mandatory vaccination programs and marked the beginning of questioning which ones were necessary.

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