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CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL (thelemmy.club)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 17 points 6 months ago (8 children)

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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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    I know someone whose scar looks more like this

    Genuinely thought someone branded them with a cig.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    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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