The most deadly of childhood diseases pretty much only exist in the mind after this long (at least in America), and anything in the mind WILL be manipulated by some for their own selfish reasons. In America, "Manipulating fools for fun and profit" is just too easy.

Being in my early 60s, I remember a friend from college and after. He was a polio victim and he was never w/o leg-braces in public. He died young. I would wish that on no one, not even Thump and his evil family. (And certainly not on an innocent child.)

Gotta say I'm quite disappointed in B.B..