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.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
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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
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?
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.
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!
Reminder to older millenials and genx: vaccinationa 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.
I clutched my pearls in distress
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.
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.
It’s only mostly dead.
I feel happy!
You're not fooling anyone, y'know
They never complained
"mild cases of death"
God I hate that I laughed at that.
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.
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.
Jezus! Can you tag the nsfw box, please? This is horrifying. Glad I didn't put my kids through that.
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?
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.
that just make some think of chicken pox scars tbh..
I have one on my nose! The horror!
Ow my freaking eyes!
The gory reality big needle wants you to ignore!
Looks awful! Did they amputate that poor kid's arm?
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.
and he started with "you shouldn't combine vaccines, instead buy my relative's single vaccines!"
Fascism is an international movement. Corporations have always favoured fascism because of the potential for insane short term profit and almost complete capture of the state. Now that corporations are in control of all of the average persons communications, they're easy prey for disinformation and propaganda.
We should all listen to Prof Hoakes he knows the real truth about vaccines.
my dad has one that looks like a whale lmfao
The almost died. Good thing they got the vaccine.