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Jezus! Can you tag the nsfw box, please? This is horrifying. Glad I didn’t put my kids through that.
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.
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?
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
Yep that is the old vaccine. It is still used in some poorer parts of the world as well.
Smallpox vaccine was live cowpox virus which causes this scarring. It was one of the most effective vaccines.
Smallpox is a horror.
I haven’t noticed mine in decades but we all had them growing up.
We also yearly got these pink tablets to chew that colored your teeth - darker meant you weren’t doing a great job brushing your teeth.
Holy fuck. I’d totally forgotten about those. They would stain the plaque on your teeth so you knew where to brush.
Yeah that’s exactly it. I’ve never seen one of those…fresh. I think they stopped using that kind of vaccine before I was born, again I never got vaccinated against smallpox, joys of being born in the 80’s. Was it an open sore? Or did it just…sink in?
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.
The ole TB jab?
Isn’t that ye olde smallpox jab?
Not sure. The two childhood TB jabs I had when I came back from Doha scarred me a bit like this but lower down the forearm. The second one being a bit pussy. (Pus, pusy, pussi) a bit infected
Didn’t need the school ones when it came to testing in high school for obvious reasons.
that just make some think of chicken pox scars tbh…
I have one on my nose! The horror!
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that this is likely sarcasm and not someone who seriously feels this way.
I hate that the American rights brain death spread so hard across the world.
I hate that I didn’t immediately spot this as satire. It wasn’t until I reread it and digested “mild cases of death” that I realized it wasn’t some antivax nonsense. ☹️
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.
and he started with “you shouldn’t combine vaccines, instead buy my relative’s single vaccines!”
Ow my freaking eyes!
The gory reality big needle wants you to ignore!
Thank you for adding the content warning, I almost opened this at work.
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.
They will live.
I clutched my pearls in distress
