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ickplant lemmy.world ickplant@lemmy.world
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Bluegrass_Addict lemmy.ca Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca
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that just make some think of chicken pox scars tbh..

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digitalFatteh lemmy.ca digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-05
#3 · Quote Reply

The ole TB jab?

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bellly sopuli.xyz bellly@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-06-20
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At least its only a mild case of death

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abbadon420 sh.itjust.works abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-28
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Jezus! Can you tag the nsfw box, please? This is horrifying. Glad I didn't put my kids through that.

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SystemNeo toast.ooo drbluefall@toast.ooo
Joined: 2023-07-09
#6 · Quote Reply

"mild cases of death"

God I hate that I laughed at that.

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danc4498 lemmy.world danc4498@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-10
#7 · Quote Reply

The almost died. Good thing they got the vaccine.

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artifex piefed.social artifex@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-10
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At least its only a mild case of death

It’s only mostly dead.

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dethedrus lemmy.dbzer0.com dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-03-09
#9 · Quote Reply

Ow my freaking eyes!

The gory reality big needle wants you to ignore!

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KyuubiNoKitsune lemmy.blahaj.zone KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-06-18
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I hate that the American rights brain death spread so hard across the world.

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big_slap lemmy.world big_slap@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
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my dad has one that looks like a whale lmfao

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Old Sage Rick lemmy.zip OldSageRick@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-12
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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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Starya67 lemmy.world starlinguk@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-17
#13 · Quote Reply

The ole TB jab?

Isn't that ye olde smallpox jab?

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Starya67 lemmy.world starlinguk@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-17
#14 · Quote Reply

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

I have one on my nose! The horror!

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ratel mander.xyz ratel@mander.xyz
Joined: 2024-06-09
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We should all listen to Prof Hoakes he knows the real truth about vaccines.

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TheImpressiveX lemmy.today TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-06-03
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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.

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madjo piefed.social madjo@piefed.social
Joined: 2024-11-20
#17 · Quote Reply

Looks awful! Did they amputate that poor kid's arm?

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judgyweevil feddit.it judgyweevil@feddit.it
Joined: 2025-03-09
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It’s only mostly dead.

I feel happy!

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digitalFatteh lemmy.ca digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-05
#19 · (edited) Quote Reply

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.

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DaddleDew lemmy.world DaddleDew@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-08
#20 · Quote Reply

At least its only a mild case of death

They never complained

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dmention7 midwest.social dmention7@midwest.social
Joined: 2025-06-25
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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. ☹️

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hitmyspot aussie.zone hitmyspot@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-07-03
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At least its only a mild case of death

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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QuinnyCoded sh.itjust.works QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-09-14
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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 im...

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.

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ickplant lemmy.world ickplant@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#24 · Quote Reply

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

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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BillyClark piefed.social BillyClark@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-01-21
#25 · (edited) Quote Reply

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.

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LemmyKnowsBest lemmy.world LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-11
#26 · (edited) Quote Reply

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 ...

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

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FrChazzz lemmus.org FrChazzz@lemmus.org
Joined: 2025-06-04
#27 · Quote Reply

I feel happy!

You're not fooling anyone, y'know

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Imgonnatrythis sh.itjust.works Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-23
#28 · Quote Reply

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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NigelFrobisher aussie.zone NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-08-07
#29 · Quote Reply

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

Aha!

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IndustryStandard lemmy.world IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-18
#30 · (edited) Quote Reply

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.

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Taleya aussie.zone Taleya@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-06-21
#31 · (edited) Quote Reply

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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Captain Aggravated sh.itjust.works captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-20
#32 · Quote Reply

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.

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John Doe lemmy.world Generica@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-06
#33 · (edited) Quote Reply

I clutched my pearls in distress

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IndustryStandard lemmy.world IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-18
#34 · Quote Reply

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.

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bluesheep sh.itjust.works bluesheep@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-30
#35 · Quote Reply

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

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Captain Aggravated sh.itjust.works captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-20
#36 · Quote Reply

I know someone whose scar looks more like this Genuinely thought someone branded them with a cig.

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?

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IndustryStandard lemmy.world IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-18
#37 · Quote Reply

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.

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rapchee lemmy.world rapchee@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-10
#38 · Quote Reply

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!"

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stoly lemmy.world stoly@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-04
#39 · Quote Reply

Mild case of death lol lol lol

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bryndos fedia.io bryndos@fedia.io
Joined: 2025-07-28
#40 · Quote Reply

Aha!

French hens are pretty because they were immune to chickenpox.

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Fmstrat lemmy.world Fmstrat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-04-27
#41 · Quote Reply

"mild cases of death" God I hate that I laughed at that.

I'm pretty sure it was a satire post.

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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot lemmy.world WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-10
#42 · Quote Reply

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 ...

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

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Leon pawb.social Dojan@pawb.social
Joined: 2025-03-20
#43 · Quote Reply

"mild cases of death" God I hate that I laughed at that.

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

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Leon pawb.social Dojan@pawb.social
Joined: 2025-03-20
#44 · (edited) Quote Reply

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.

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RebekahWSD lemmy.world RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-19
#45 · Quote Reply

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.

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degen midwest.social degen@midwest.social
Joined: 2023-06-15
#46 · Quote Reply

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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bitchkat lemmy.world bitchkat@lemmy.world
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#47 · Quote Reply

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.

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smh slrpnk.net smh@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-06-13
#48 · Quote Reply

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.

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MrShankles reddthat.com MrShankles@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-07-01
#49 · Quote Reply

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 addi...

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

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Jännät sopuli.xyz jaennaet@sopuli.xyz
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#50 · Quote Reply

Well you know… they could get better. Necromancy is a dying art, but it’s not dead yet.
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Tollana1234567 lemmy.today Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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#51 · (edited) Quote Reply

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

i have shingle scars, but its not atrophied like most people who get shingles, since zoster damages the tissue causing the atrophy, it somewhat hypertrophic. primary varicella scars seems less likely than shingle scars which causes significantly more damage to the skin.

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