must've been crazy to live in a time when almost everyone had pox scars and relatives who died of plague

cancer really wasn't a huge thing except for environmental ones till people started not getting killed by the flu at 50

@Arcana sure is lmao

@MischievousTomato oh you were in the military?

@MischievousTomato oh you're probably still in it

@Arcana you should askaybe you just missed it, i didn't notice it till i asked

@Arcana it's very much a boomer thing, my mom doesn't have one and is 55

@Arcana scratch that she's 54

@Arcana but my step dad who is 58??? 59? has one

@Arcana

>get vaccinated for smallpox
>have eczema
>this nasty shit happens

@MischievousTomato why do you have a pox scar

@Arcana oh very possibly!

another gross image, kid on the right was vaccinated and got a very mild case of smallpox, you can see from the minimal scarring he only got a couple pocks, the scarring isn't really noticeable at first glance. whole generations of people were permanently disfigured by that shit. they airbrush it out of almost all the paintings from the period but lots of royalty were pockmarked too.

indians were the first to inoculate for smallpox, it was called variolation. you would inhale crushed pock scab material and get a mild form of smallpox. it's much safer than actual smallpox though much less safe than vaccination, it had a 1-2 percent mortality. some upper class euros had it done to them but they modified it and used a needle. you get a lot of pocks with variolation but they're concentrated around the injection site. second picture is vaccination vs variolation lesions. you can see why variolation wasn't as widely adopted as vaccination lol

@djsumdog @Arcana polio doesn't scar like that but it's funny, my step dad also thought it was from polio

@orekix @MischievousTomato wait what my tetanus shot didn't do that

@MischievousTomato @orekix i'm due for my booster but i remember the tetanus vaccine sucked ass. so i'm not getting it lol.

@Arcana the worst thing about variolation though is that it does give you smallpox and you're contagious and can start an outbreak.

@orekix @MischievousTomato oh that's funny

@ARCONITE @Arcana oh that's cool