chatonlyman2: I got blasted like everyone in the era with a scaring type needle causing scarring in my left arm. Should I research or say oh well.
That needle was one scarey needle but not sure which year they changed it but they started giving the vaccine in a liquid form that was put onto a sugar cube. This was compulsory and all of the children got the vaccine in school.
Yes, I do. Along with several others for polio, tetanus, and TB. In my adult life I was further scarred by shots for Cholera, Yellow Fever, Tetanus boosters, Rabies, Influenza, Haepatitis, Typhoid Fever,.....and I have never had any of the above. I was exposed to numerous diseases as a child (Chicken Pox, Mumps, Measles, etc), caught them all, and now have a lifelong immunity. As a farmkid, I was exposed to all sorts of germs, never drank chlorinated water, drank unpasturized milk, drank well water from the earth, never used hand sanitizer or other anti-bacterial agents, uh,....yup,...my body has been exposed to many microscopic life-forms and has learned (either naturally or through deliberate exposure) to deal with them.
Thanks to vaccination, smallpox is now "extinct" (although it is somewhat presumtuous to title any RNA-based virus as "extinct"). I cannot in my lifetime remember anyone contracting poliomelytis,....but I have met many who were crippled by the disease prior to the vaccine.
I personally am thankful that against the "tough" diseases I was exposed to "dead" pathogens allowing my immune system to recognize the denizen. Granted, the "live" pathogen" would have allowed me the same opportunity,....but there is a difference between seeing a Hells Angel in a picture as he lay in a coffin as opposed to spilling a beer over a live one in a bar!
However, a person's life is a person's life and which aspects of medical advances one chooses to accept is up to them,....unless it affects my basic health,.....ya hear me Typhoid Mary?
JaquiGNew Westminster, British Columbia Canada12 posts
You know, I heard a long time ago that Jean Chretien survived Polio, that it was the cause of his slight limp and partial paralysis of his face. If true, I have to respect him as a person for being strong enough to survive, and to fight to overcome the residual problems.
and yeah, I have that round, broken glass rod scratch scar from the vaccination.
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