Paxilpapa
Serenity, through modern chemistry
ROFLOL, you can't do that with whiskey,,, I tried and got caught,,, TWICE!!!! I wonder how they knew???
Name One Thing Kids Today will Never Understand...
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ROFLOL, you can't do that with whiskey,,, I tried and got caught,,, TWICE!!!! I wonder how they knew???
Paxilpapa
Serenity, through modern chemistry
Smallpox Vaccine Scar
Yup,,, we took one for humanity!!!!
Far West
Pursuit Driver
ShoeDiva
Shoes!!!!
I was born after the required smallpox vaccine, so I did not get one or know why you have a scar from a vaccine? What made it different than the other vaccines we get?
Smallpox Vaccine Scar
Far West
Pursuit Driver
The vaccine actually created a blister. The blister crusts over, the scab falls off, and what’s left is a pockmark.
That was much better than actually having the disease as the whole body would be covered in those blisters. Each blister would leave a pox scar ...if you lived, 30% died from smallpox:
In 1972, smallpox vaccines stopped being a part of routine vaccinations in the United States. Smallpox was wiped out around the world and declared eradicated in 1980
Back when smallpox was one of the most frightening and disfiguring diseases around, most kids in the United States got the vaccine, and ended up with a scar.
A 'jet gun' used to give the smallpox vaccine. The foot pedal when you pressed it down would deliver this burst of high pressure air, and travel through the gun then shoot out through the vaccine canister and penetrate the skin.
The Sound Guy
Pursuit Driver
It has been a while, but I seem to remember getting it in school as part of the public health campaign.
Far West
Pursuit Driver
Yeah, I remember being in line in a school cafeteria and that gun thing... but I don't remember after that, as in a blister, or anything else.
I could not even tell you how old I was. I guess if I found that immunization card I could trace the year. No clue where it is though at this point.
That brings back memories of when I received multiple vaccines via "guns" (plural) in each arm simultaneously before shipping off to Korea. The fun part was waiting until you either were cleared to leave or showed signs of allergic reaction. Several had reactions.The vaccine actually created a blister. The blister crusts over, the scab falls off, and what’s left is a pockmark.
That was much better than actually having the disease as the whole body would be covered in those blisters. Each blister would leave a pox scar ...if you lived, 30% died from smallpox:
In 1972, smallpox vaccines stopped being a part of routine vaccinations in the United States. Smallpox was wiped out around the world and declared eradicated in 1980
Back when smallpox was one of the most frightening and disfiguring diseases around, most kids in the United States got the vaccine, and ended up with a scar.
A 'jet gun' used to give the smallpox vaccine. The foot pedal when you pressed it down would deliver this burst of high pressure air, and travel through the gun then shoot out through the vaccine canister and penetrate the skin.
JawJa
Driving Instructor
Hmmm...
The 'gun' came later...
We were lined up... they had a box of these things that looked like stickpins, with larger plastic handles. The bottom had 4x short needles (probably 1/8" long). They held your arm, stuck the thing in your arm, held it there for a few seconds, then disposed of it (one time use).
The blister formed, then the scar.
And now we have open borders... one wonders what the advocates are thinking... do we really want to go back to medical epidemics where tens of thousands of folks get sick and die... just to feel PC about things???
The 'gun' came later...
We were lined up... they had a box of these things that looked like stickpins, with larger plastic handles. The bottom had 4x short needles (probably 1/8" long). They held your arm, stuck the thing in your arm, held it there for a few seconds, then disposed of it (one time use).
The blister formed, then the scar.
And now we have open borders... one wonders what the advocates are thinking... do we really want to go back to medical epidemics where tens of thousands of folks get sick and die... just to feel PC about things???
ShoeDiva
Shoes!!!!
Oh my........The vaccine actually created a blister. The blister crusts over, the scab falls off, and what’s left is a pockmark.
That was much better than actually having the disease as the whole body would be covered in those blisters. Each blister would leave a pox scar ...if you lived, 30% died from smallpox:
In 1972, smallpox vaccines stopped being a part of routine vaccinations in the United States. Smallpox was wiped out around the world and declared eradicated in 1980
Back when smallpox was one of the most frightening and disfiguring diseases around, most kids in the United States got the vaccine, and ended up with a scar.
A 'jet gun' used to give the smallpox vaccine. The foot pedal when you pressed it down would deliver this burst of high pressure air, and travel through the gun then shoot out through the vaccine canister and penetrate the skin.
Far West
Pursuit Driver
That is why so many diseases we no longer had in the USA are back. The anti-vaxxers don't get it that most of those slipping over the border illegally may not have had any vaccinations and in third world countries these diseases are more common.
These are the ones that children who were never vaccinated could contract, and that there has been a resurgence:
measles, whooping-cough, mumps, tuberculosis, and chicken-pox.
On a positive note, due to a worldwide effort, by next year Polio could be eradicated worldwide. Last year, there were only 22 reported cases in two endemic countries: Pakistan and Afghanistan.
"The countries that have had problems have been the countries where the vaccination levels are extremely low, either because of ongoing infrastructure issues or, more commonly now, because areas of conflict don't have the necessary infrastructure to vaccinate," said Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, a professor of pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of pediatric infectious diseases at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, who has studied poliovirus.
Far West
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Boss 302
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I had the small pox vaccine when I was a kid. I had to get it again in 2004, when getting ready to go to Afghanistan. They said the vaccine's life in your system is only 27 years. When I got it the second time, it was one needle held by the hand poking you in the shoulder 24 times.
Far West
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Far West
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Actually dialing a phone.
The Sound Guy
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Parents in law had one of those at the house when we were dating. (married 33 years ago today!!)
Far West
Pursuit Driver
It seemed like every relative we had owned one. I liked the turquoise one my cousins had the best. We had a yellow one like the picture. By the time it was finally thrown out in the early 90's the seat had a split in it. It had been out in the garage for at least a decade.
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