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[-] bellly@sopuli.xyz 194 points 2 weeks ago

At least its only a mild case of death

[-] artifex@piefed.social 48 points 2 weeks ago
[-] judgyweevil@feddit.it 17 points 2 weeks ago
[-] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

You're not fooling anyone, y'know

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[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago

We don't have the AutoPay results yet. It might not even be death they dies from. Don't jump to conclusions. We need more research and more time. These vaccines have been rushed with not enough testing on the billions of tret subjects.

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[-] drbluefall@toast.ooo 103 points 2 weeks ago

"mild cases of death"

God I hate that I laughed at that.

[-] Dojan@pawb.social 12 points 2 weeks ago

Well you know… they could get better. Necromancy is a dying art, but it’s not dead yet.

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[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 91 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago

The Latin word for cow is "vacca," which is where the word "vaccine" comes from.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago
[-] bryndos@fedia.io 8 points 2 weeks ago

French hens are pretty because they were immune to chickenpox.

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 44 points 1 week ago

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)

[-] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 38 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] observes_depths@aussie.zone 32 points 2 weeks ago

The good news is they only had a mild case of death

[-] seatwiggy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago

There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead.

[-] nexguy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ohhh look who knows so much!

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[-] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 weeks ago

Jezus! Can you tag the nsfw box, please? This is horrifying. Glad I didn't put my kids through that.

[-] degen@midwest.social 24 points 2 weeks ago

This is such obvious Fake News. It's clearly a scar from the mandible of a tiny human, or possibly a faerie

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[-] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 weeks ago

that just make some think of chicken pox scars tbh..

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[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

I know someone whose scar looks more like this

Genuinely thought someone branded them with a cig.

[-] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago

What the hell is that what it is? My mom has one too and I never realised that it's a vaccine scar

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Yep that is the old vaccine. It is still used in some poorer parts of the world as well.

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[-] stoly@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Mild case of death lol lol lol

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

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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[-] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 week ago
[-] digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 weeks ago
[-] starlinguk@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Isn't that ye olde smallpox jab?

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[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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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[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 2 weeks ago

i think sugar cube was the polio vaccine, i believe they use that for polio virus.

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[-] webkitten@piefed.social 18 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[-] OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 weeks ago

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?

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[-] 01011@monero.town 14 points 2 weeks ago

Serious question - what happened where so many people decided that disease and premature death is superior to vaccination?

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.

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

Vaccines worked too well and stupid idiots that should be dead are alive.

[-] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

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[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this is likely sarcasm and not someone who seriously feels this way.

[-] saimen@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago
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[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 11 points 1 week ago

That is a small pox vaccine scar!

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[-] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago

I hate that the American rights brain death spread so hard across the world.

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

You are not wrong, but I also want to say that the antivax movement started in the UK with Andrew Wakefield. Then US made it way more widespread.

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[-] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago

Ow my freaking eyes!

The gory reality big needle wants you to ignore!

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

Fucking barbaric stuff. That ugly deformed MF won't be getting anyone with a decent dowry.

Good luck trying to go to the beach without making children cry.

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