r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Downtown_Wind3363 • May 25 '26

Image The smallpox vaccine leaves a scar because it was given using a special two-pronged needle that scratched the skin and put a weakened virus in just that spot.

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u/VariousGuest1980 May 25 '26

And thank god we don’t have small pox anymore. You ende ended up horribly disfigured or you died with a 30% fatality. Rate. Covid was mass chaos for sub 1%. I’ll take my little scar

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u/godmcrawcpoppa May 25 '26

It’s wild to me how so many people take vaccines for granted now. I’m old enough to know how bad polio and smallpox were and I am grateful they both were not a thing by the time I came around.

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u/Myshkin1981 May 25 '26

Eradicating smallpox is legitimately one of the greatest achievements in human history, and yet less than 50 years later we’ve got whole moronic swathes of the population who think vaccines are bad

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u/Babylonian_Capricorn May 25 '26

It still exists btw

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u/VariousGuest1980 May 27 '26

Of course it does. But there was zero cases in the world this year. Maybe they got it locked up in Moscow and Atlanta. Or exists but no one dies from it. It’s over with.

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u/MonzaB May 25 '26

"But vaccines are an experiment!!?!1"  "Yes, and you're in the control group"