The "Real" Meaning of "Ring-a- Ring-a-Rosie"

I heard children using this rhyme while playing. They used to to hold hands together and spinning, used to chant this rhyme- "Ring a Ring o' Roses" or "Ring Around the Rosie" is a nursery rhyme or folksong and playground singing game. It first appeared in print in 1881, but it is reported that a version was already being sung to the current tune in the 1790s and similar rhymes are known from across Europe. Ring-a-ring o' roses, A pocket full of posies, A-tishoo! A-tishoo! We all fall down Meaning and Background of this are really shocking and grim- ---"Ring around the Rosie"--refers to a red mark, supposedly the first sign of the plague ---"A pocket full of posies"-- refers to sachets of herbs carried to ward off infection ---"Ashes, ashes" --either a reference to the cremation of plague victims or to the words said in the funeral Mass..."Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." Sometimes line three is rendered as "Atischoo, atischoo"--sneezing, another sign of infection. ---"We all fall down." -- The Plague was not selective in its victims; both rich and poor, young and old, succumbed. The rhyme has often been associated with the Great Plague which happened in England in 1665, or with earlier outbreaks of the Black Death in England. Interpreters of the rhyme before the Second World War make no mention of this. by 1951, however, it seems to have become well established as an explanation for the form of the rhyme that had become standard in the United Kingdom. Peter and Iona Opie, the leading authorities on nursery rhymes, remarked: The invariable sneezing and falling down in modern English versions have given would-be origin finders the opportunity to say that the rhyme dates back to the Great Plague. A rosy rash, they allege, was a symptom of the plague, and posies of herbs were carried as protection and to ward off the smell of the disease. Sneezing or coughing was a final fatal symptom, and "all fall down" was exactly what happened