CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL

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bellly@sopuli.xyz · 192 pts · 136d (6 replies)

At least its only a mild case of death

artifex@piefed.social · 47 pts · 136d (3 replies)

It’s only mostly dead.

judgyweevil@feddit.it · 16 pts · 136d (1 reply)

I feel happy!

FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 6 pts · 136d

You're not fooling anyone, y'know

GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 136d

From the knees up, mostly.

hitmyspot@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 136d

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.

DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 136d

They never complained

drbluefall@toast.ooo · 102 pts · 136d (4 replies)

"mild cases of death"

God I hate that I laughed at that.

Dojan@pawb.social · 11 pts · 136d (2 replies)

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

jaennaet@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 136d (1 reply)
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echodot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 136d

It's revival is an n^n^ problem

Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 136d

I'm pretty sure it was a satire post.

BillyClark@piefed.social · 90 pts · 136d (4 replies)

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.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 136d

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

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 136d (2 replies)

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

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 136d (1 reply)

Aha!

bryndos@fedia.io · 8 pts · 136d

French hens are pretty because they were immune to chickenpox.

janus2@lemmy.zip · 44 pts · 136d

my mom has the vaccine mark! I remember asking her about it as a young kid and that being the first time I ever learned about vaccines. the idea that we "use germs to train our immune systems to fight them" was so cool to me. no wonder I went into biochem when i grew up (courtesy of having parents who didn't let me die to preventable diseases lol)

TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today · 36 pts · 136d (1 reply)

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.

QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 136d

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.

observes_depths@aussie.zone · 32 pts · 136d (4 replies)

The good news is they only had a mild case of death

seatwiggy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 135d (3 replies)

There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead.

nexguy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 135d

Ohhh look who knows so much!

JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 135d (1 reply)

That feels like a personal attack for some reason

seatwiggy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 135d

Just a quote that seemed vaguely relevant

abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 136d

Jezus! Can you tag the nsfw box, please? This is horrifying. Glad I didn't put my kids through that.

degen@midwest.social · 23 pts · 136d (1 reply)

This is such obvious Fake News. It's clearly a scar from the mandible of a tiny human, or possibly a faerie

Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 135d

Everyone knows that hope, prayers, and fairy bites are all you need to stay healthy.

Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 136d (5 replies)

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

starlinguk@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 136d

I have one on my nose! The horror!

Dojan@pawb.social · 3 pts · 136d (2 replies)

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.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 136d

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.

PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social · 1 pts · 135d

I'm old enough that there actually wasn't a chickenpox vaccine until after I'd already had it. Thankfully, my case wasn't nearly as miserable as what you've described. I just got kinda itchy all over and got to stay in bed watching TV for like a week.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 136d

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.

stoly@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 136d (2 replies)

Mild case of death lol lol lol

BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 136d

The good news is that once you catch it naturally, you can never catch it again! Can a vaccine do that?

jaennaet@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 136d
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digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 136d (2 replies)

The ole TB jab?

starlinguk@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 136d (1 reply)

Isn't that ye olde smallpox jab?

digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 136d

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.

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 136d (11 replies)

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.

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 136d (8 replies)

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.

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 136d (7 replies)

I know someone whose scar looks more like this

Genuinely thought someone branded them with a cig.

bluesheep@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 136d (5 replies)

What the hell is that what it is? My mom has one too and I never realised that it's a vaccine scar

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 136d

Yep that is the old vaccine. It is still used in some poorer parts of the world as well.

bitchkat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 136d (1 reply)

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.

la508@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 135d

Holy fuck. I'd totally forgotten about those. They would stain the plaque on your teeth so you knew where to brush.

piwakawakas@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 136d

BCG vaccine for TB causes scars like this

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 135d

Smallpox vaccine was live cowpox virus which causes this scarring. It was one of the most effective vaccines.

Smallpox is a horror.

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 136d

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?

smh@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 136d (1 reply)

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.

RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 135d

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.

W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 135d

webkitten@piefed.social · 18 pts · 136d (1 reply)
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CatAssTrophy@safest.space · 1 pts · 134d

I got an arm infection near the injection site of one vaccine that was so bad that there was briefly discussion of possibly needing to amputate it if the third round of antibiotics didn't clear it up. When the primary abscess at the injection site ruptured, I collected over a pint of bloodypusieyuck in the first couple of hours. Fortunately, it began resolving shortly thereafter, but it definitely made me more wary of vaccinations.

That being said, I still got vaccinated for COVID and some other things after that. Because I am capable of taking a deep breath, rationalizing the actual proven risk odds and then deal with my very real anxiety and do the thing I know has the highest chance of being the best course of action (at least sometimes).

Though, I do always ask they do it in my non-dominate arm now, just in case.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 18 pts · 136d (3 replies)

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)

MrShankles@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 136d (2 replies)

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

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 136d (1 reply)

i had my tdap booster last year, make sure people dont forge its every 10years.

MrShankles@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 136d

"If you don't remember the last time you got a tdap booster, you're probably due"

RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 136d (9 replies)

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.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 136d (8 replies)

i think sugar cube was the polio vaccine, i believe they use that for polio virus.

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 136d (6 replies)

Used. They don't do oral polio vaccines anymore AFAIK.

echodot@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 136d (5 replies)

Do they even vaccinate against polio anymore I'm pretty sure I've never had a polio vaccine and I am pretty sure it's extinct isn't it?

Johandea@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 136d

Yes, it's recommended for every child. A total of four doses over five years.

pyre@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 135d

I'm no expert but at this point I think it's a pretty safe bet that things come back if you stop vaccinating against it.

toxoplasma0gondii@feddit.org · 1 pts · 136d

In Germany its part of the multi vaccine with like 5 others.

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 135d

Polio has not been eradicated the way Smallpox has. There is no smallpox anywhere. There are Polio patients, relatively rare as they are.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 135d

Polio is not extinct. There is polio in India and Africa. Smallpox may be extinct, because of the vaccine, which causes that scar.

RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 135d

She agrees, it was the polio vaccine in the sugar cube. She was also unable to get a second cube, as the small white girl in the bright red coat was very distinctive and they told her to stop trying to get another cube.

OldSageRick@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 136d (1 reply)

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?

Stupidmanager@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 136d

You have the government tracking version. No 5g for you, just constant surveillance.

Speaking of, sitting on the toilet for so long can cause hemorrhoids. You should probably finish surfing lemmy and move, go for a walk like to the store you love nearby. I’m only guess, of course, not tracking you at all…

buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 135d (2 replies)

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this is likely sarcasm and not someone who seriously feels this way.

saimen@feddit.org · 10 pts · 135d (1 reply)

No, I trust Prof. Hoax

buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 135d

JFC, LoL! I completely missed that! 😂

ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 11 pts · 135d (3 replies)

That is a small pox vaccine scar!

Amberskin@europe.pub · 5 pts · 135d (2 replies)

Yup, I’ve got one! Now guess my age!

justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 135d

Apparently so many digits don't fit in the text field here ;)

ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 1 pts · 132d

I got one, too! You first!

KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 136d (4 replies)

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

Greddan@feddit.org · 13 pts · 136d
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ickplant@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 136d (1 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.

rapchee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 136d

and he started with "you shouldn't combine vaccines, instead buy my relative's single vaccines!"

dmention7@midwest.social · 4 pts · 136d

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. ☹️

dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 136d

Ow my freaking eyes!

The gory reality big needle wants you to ignore!

Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 136d

Thank you for adding the content warning, I almost opened this at work.

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 136d

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.

madjo@piefed.social · 6 pts · 136d

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

TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 135d

Look what they did to my boy!

Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 135d

They will live.

ratel@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 136d

We should all listen to Prof Hoakes he knows the real truth about vaccines.

Generica@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 136d

I clutched my pearls in distress

danc4498@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 136d

The almost died. Good thing they got the vaccine.

big_slap@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 136d

my dad has one that looks like a whale lmfao

Francislewwis@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 135d (2 replies)

That’s literally just a normal injection mark… meanwhile mumps complications are way worse. Context matters.

thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 135d

You have missed the joke

!woooosh@lemmy.world

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 135d

meanwhile mumps complications are way worse

You mean like mild cases of death?