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CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL
(lemmy.world)
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)
The good news is they only had a mild case of death
There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead.
Ohhh look who knows so much!
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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'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this is likely sarcasm and not someone who seriously feels this way.
Look what they did to my boy!
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.
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
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"mild cases of death"
God I hate that I laughed at that.
Well you know… they could get better. Necromancy is a dying art, but it’s not dead yet.
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Serious question - what happened where so many people decided that disease and premature death is superior to vaccination?
Vaccines worked too well and stupid idiots that should be dead are alive.
In Pakistan and Afghanistan CIA used vaccine drives as a cover up to collect information like DNA to look for bin laden. This is why these 2 countries are the only places where polio still exists. This also created mistrusts worldwide as well.
And the most outragious part is, some people raised the concerns in the admin that this would happen, but this was CIA and national security trumps everything sso they went with it anyways.
I wonder if it’s that most of us alive today have very little memory of people who suffered the diseases themselves. Our parents and grandparents knew people who died or had long-term negative effects from measles, polio, smalllpox, etc.
We are insulated from that to the point where some flirt with the idea that maybe the disease isn’t that bad. Combine that with mistrust in the medical system and nobody enjoying getting a needle, and you have some people that WANT vaccines to be a bust to justify avoiding something they don’t want to do.
During the 50s, it was common to return to school in the fall, to find out 1 or 2 classmates had died of polio over the summer.
My wife's family still talks about little Buzz, a 5 year old cousin who died of polio in the backseat of his car, as his Dad raced to the hospital. It was in the 50s, and the old folks in the family would talk of it like it was yesterday.
Nobody has had that experience in decades, so people have forgotten about it, and our educational system has been deliberately downgraded so nobody is taught anything important any more.
I honestly believe the education system is more to blame than anything besides the anti vax people themselves. There's so much nonsense pseudoscience posted online by uninformed and grifters, then their cult of stupidity fills the holes with comments that reinforce the legitimacy of their quackery. Even reasonable people get sucked down the rabbit hole.
When my son was born my wife had been fed this bullshit and suggested delaying vaccination. I sat her down and was able to address her concerns and get her to understand the science and statistics so he stayed in the doctor's recommended schedule but not everybody is going to have a spouse who cash reel then back in.
Facebook mom groups perpetuate this pseudoscience. You are a young mom and want to commisserate with people, but half of them will scold you for things totally not scientifically sound.
I recall posts suggesting cow’s milk would poison your baby if used before 1 year old, yet cheese or yogurt was no problem. I went down the rabbit hole and it was essentially a bastardization of recommendations that breast milk or formula should be the bulk of your baby’s diet rather than cow’s milk, not that cow’s milk was poison.
Another time they scolded a mother for making a fruit smoothie, because they felt she could have overdosed on vitamin A. I’ll point out that dietary vitamin A mostly has to be converted from beta carotene to its active form, so it is incredibly hard to overdose unless you are using vitamin supplements. And yet fruit smoothie mom was in trouble, but eating 10 Big Macs was no big deal, as the magic guidelines never said no.
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They will live.
This is such obvious Fake News. It's clearly a scar from the mandible of a tiny human, or possibly a faerie
Everyone knows that hope, prayers, and fairy bites are all you need to stay healthy.
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.
She agrees, it was the polio vaccine in the sugar cube. She was also unable to get a second cube, as the small white girl in the bright red coat was very distinctive and they told her to stop trying to get another cube.
Please put a nsfw tag on this. I was on the bus and when I saw this I started screaming in pure fear. Everyone else was giving me concerned looks and were saying things like “what’s going on?” and “are you okay sir?”. The fear I felt seeing this horrible image gave me heart palpitations, forcing me drop my phone. Now there’s an entire bus of terrified people screaming in terror from this one image. Even the bus driver saw a single pixel of the image from the mirror causing so much terror that he swerved the bus straight into an orphanage. So many poor children were injured in the crash, but was worse: many of them saw the image. This is all your fault. Dozens of poor orphan children have been forever and irrecoverably traumatized because of your ignorance to put a nsfw tag on this.
Stop dropping your phone on the fucking train
Every morning I clock into work, and 12 hours later I clock out covered in jizz because someone dropped their phone while looking at porn and turned the whole trip into a goddamn gangbang. I can’t take it anymore. I’m literally knee deep in spunk by the end of the day, because all you motherfuckers are apparently lubing up your hands and can’t get a grip. We’ve all had to start wearing blindfolds when we exit the front so we don’t accidentally get a peak and start furiously cranking our cocks to “thugposts” or “femboys” or whatever the newest horny fad is.
For the love of god, stop dropping your phone on the fucking train.
Mild case of death lol lol lol
The good news is that once you catch it naturally, you can never catch it again! Can a vaccine do that?
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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.
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Jezus! Can you tag the nsfw box, please? This is horrifying. Glad I didn't put my kids through that.
Thank you for adding the content warning, I almost opened this at work.
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)
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