You know, looking at that little scarring in the context of the vaccine, I’m reminded that I heard that there’s this famous idea that milk maids are historically seen as the very definition of pretty, and that the idea stems from the fact that they tended to get cowpox, which protected them from smallpox.
So, basically, before smallpox vaccines, the typical woman was so badly scarred somewhere visible like her face by smallpox that a woman who simply didn’t have those scars would be considered extremely pretty.
The Latin word for cow is “vacca,” which is where the word “vaccine” comes from.
Eight maids a-milking
Seven swans a-swimming
Six geese a-laying
Five golden rings
Four calling birds
Three french hens
Two turtle doves
and a partridge in a pear tree
My mother has this scar, when she was vaccinated on a reservation.
She also remembers they’d give you a sugar cube with a different vaccine on it at the time. She tried to get it multiple times.
i think sugar cube was the polio vaccine, i believe they use that for polio virus.
Used. They don’t do oral polio vaccines anymore AFAIK.
Do they even vaccinate against polio anymore I’m pretty sure I’ve never had a polio vaccine and I am pretty sure it’s extinct isn’t it?
Polio is not extinct. There is polio in India and Africa. Smallpox may be extinct, because of the vaccine, which causes that scar.
This is such obvious Fake News. It’s clearly a scar from the mandible of a tiny human, or possibly a faerie
my mom has the vaccine mark! I remember asking her about it as a young kid and that being the first time I ever learned about vaccines. the idea that we “use germs to train our immune systems to fight them” was so cool to me. no wonder I went into biochem when i grew up (courtesy of having parents who didn’t let me die to preventable diseases lol)
“mild cases of death”
God I hate that I laughed at that.
Mild case of death lol lol lol
Reminder to older millenials and genx: vaccinations age out and measels can reset your immune system so talk to your gp and get yourself an mmr booster. If you’re in Australia it’s free at a vaccinating chemist if you don’t have the third shot on your record.
(You don’t even need a gp visit for that last, or online records. I literally took in a pink 1970’s infant vaxx record with the 90’s additions handwritten in. staff were incredibly fascinated)
Had my vaccine titers drawn for a job and my mmr levels were just a smidge low, so got a booster in my 30’s. Glad I did with all the recent uptick in cases
Serious question - what happened where so many people decided that disease and premature death is superior to vaccination?
Mich like in the opening scene of idiocracy: https://youtu.be/Rp1HUcFvJh4
Perhaps anti vaccination groups are just the natural population control trigger to counterbalance the described effect?
But to me it’s extra funny because anti vaccination groups happen to closely align with religion most of the time. And they can’t see the benefits of mass vaccination so it must not be real, but in almost the same sentence they want you to believe in sky daddy without being able to see him.
Oh I got one of these!
Btw anyone knows when we will finally get 5G on it? Or is it just mine which didn’t receive its update?
The good news is they only had a mild case of death
The only thing I got from my recent COVID booster was chills, aches, and soreness for two days and I do it again in a heartbeat.
For all the circlejerk, smallpox vaccines used to leave very large scar. As if someone put out a sigarette on your shoulder. Newer versions of it no longer do this, but the older versions scar could get very ugly.
My mother has one; a little spot on her arm where her skin just, kind of wrinkles inward a little. It doesn’t stand proud like a wound that scabbed over, it’s sunken in.
I’m a millennial, I’m not vaccinated against smallpox, it was certified eradicated 5 years before I was born.
I know someone whose scar looks more like this
Genuinely thought someone branded them with a cig.
What the hell is that what it is? My mom has one too and I never realised that it’s a vaccine scar
Smallpox vaccine was live cowpox virus which causes this scarring. It was one of the most effective vaccines.
Smallpox is a horror.
That is a small pox vaccine scar!
Yup, I’ve got one! Now guess my age!
Apparently so many digits don’t fit in the text field here ;)
I got one, too! You first!
At least its only a mild case of death
