"We had our sugar rationed, our meat rationed, our butter was rationed — a lot of things were rationed, even coffee, tea and clothing." Lately, her memories of the early 1940s are being triggered more than ever as the world tackles the COVID-19 pandemic. Seeing empty shelves where toilet paper once was, for example, takes Sundet back to things like the wartime stocking shortage. "We'd have to make our own socks in the wintertime because you couldn't buy them, but you could buy the yarn." "I can't even compare [COVID-19 and polio] because this virus that we have now is so much more of a problem," Campbell said.

Source: CBC News April 07, 2020 22:52 UTC