my dad has one that looks like a whale lmfao
that just make some think of chicken pox scars tbh…
I don’t know if I have any physical scars from chickenpox, but the misery of having it is one of my earliest memories.
I recall sitting in the bathroom, everything was itching and painful, the light was off, but what little light there was bored into my head. My mother took a photo of me, with the camera flash on. She was laughing, while also crooning over me.
I didn’t know that there even was a vaccine for chickenpox until I was in my 20s. I was so little, who in their right mind is okay with their child going through that? My mother is an anti-vaxxer and honestly I loathe her for that.
same here, dint realize there was one. and i also found out through my records i had the vaccine but it dint prevent the severity of shingles though, i had it at 20 since i had the chickenpox prior to the vaccine coming out. varicella is pretty mild for children, but its dangerous for adults, the symptoms are considerably more severe and requires treatment asap.
I have one on my nose! The horror!
That’s literally just a normal injection mark… meanwhile mumps complications are way worse. Context matters.
You have missed the joke
meanwhile mumps complications are way worse
You mean like mild cases of death?
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.
Had my vaccine titers drawn for a job and my mmr levels were just a smidge low, so got a booster in my 30’s. Glad I did with all the recent uptick in cases
i had my tdap booster last year, make sure people dont forge its every 10years.
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.
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.
I remember reading that some folks (actresses, models) would get vaccinated in less conspicuous places, like the inner thigh, but now I can’t find any documentation for it.
I was actually talking to my mother about her vaccine scar today. She says she had a friend who got vaccinated the same time she did. But her friends mother was super vain, so told the vaccinator guy to give her daughter the shot on her thigh, so a swim suit would cover it.
But outer thigh is lower than where bathing suits show so you saw the scar anyway, and the mother was pissed. Mother’s friend didn’t care though, since she was a kid.
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
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.
BCG vaccine for TB causes scars like this
Smallpox vaccine was live cowpox virus which causes this scarring. It was one of the most effective vaccines.
Smallpox is a horror.
Yep that is the old vaccine. It is still used in some poorer parts of the world as well.
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?
Look what they did to my boy!
They will live.
Ow my freaking eyes!
The gory reality big needle wants you to ignore!
The almost died. Good thing they got the vaccine.
I clutched my pearls in distress
At least its only a mild case of death
It’s only mostly dead.
From the knees up, mostly.
I feel happy!
You’re not fooling anyone, y’know
They never complained
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.
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 ;)
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.
