Comment on The mark
Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
This is awakening a sort of core memory in me. It was some vaccination wasn’t it?
Comment on The mark
Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
This is awakening a sort of core memory in me. It was some vaccination wasn’t it?
bstix@feddit.dk 1 week ago
No. People who are older than that have a smallpox vaccination scar on the shoulde from the vaccines in 1958-1977.
The arm thing s is just an urban myth and plays on confirmation bias. Almost everyone have a freckle there for no good reason.
However… Mexicans actually have a tuberculosis vaccination mark on the arm, but most other countries didn’t need to vaccinate against that.
That’s how these myths spread, part truth+loads of bullshit.
r00ty@kbin.life 1 week ago
Nah, I got the BCG back in the 80s, and I'm in the UK. So definitely not just Mexicans. That is one nasty vaccination, by the way. Do not recommend the experience.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
None of us 1971 kids got the smallpox scar. Discontinued in 1972 (US). Whew.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Yeah it’s just because was in the sun a lot in high school because I was a lifeguard back then lol