Albert researches quarantines past and present and poses an important thought experiment: would Benjamin Disraeli have been good at Super Mario 3D?
Regarding children and quarantine, perhaps the most heartless inequity in quarantine policy involved family separations in early 20th century New York, typically affecting poorer migrant families who were unable to isolate children with smallpox or polio. See e.g., https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-new-york-separated-immigrant-families-smallpox-outbreak-1901-180971211/ And inequities of family separation during a 1916 polio outbreak in New York is mentioned here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/short-history-of-quarantine/
Regarding children and quarantine, perhaps the most heartless inequity in quarantine policy involved family separations in early 20th century New York, typically affecting poorer migrant families who were unable to isolate children with smallpox or polio. See e.g., https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-new-york-separated-immigrant-families-smallpox-outbreak-1901-180971211/ And inequities of family separation during a 1916 polio outbreak in New York is mentioned here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/short-history-of-quarantine/