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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The history of the smallpox vaccine is fascinating iirc


milk maids, orphans-as-storage+transportation, really crazy stuff.

And after reading about it, one thing that's neat is that it makes sense. You don't need to talk about homeopathic "water memory" or whatever, and you don't even need a solid understanding of biology


the whole thing just kinda...makes sense.

And yet, here we are...

[–] Chaotic_Altruist@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

It was barbaric and in this picture he's performing an untested medical procedure on an unwilling orphan he picked up off the street and injecting the child with live virus that he knows will infect them.

That being said, the story fully proves vaccines work and modern vaccines are so much safer and people consent to getting them.

Also fluoride in drinking water is an obvious good idea, but people don't like doing research to understand the situation, they like taking a position because an influencer reduced the entire situation to a single sentence that appeals to them.

[–] myotheraccount@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

All I'm hearing is that freezers killed the orphan industry

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

Well, the invention of medical ethics complicated things.

[–] darkmogool@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

WaTEr iS ToXic… nOboDy sUrvIVes It

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It wasn't the vaccine, that was just a cursed year. Everybody born in 1798 has died, too.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

This needs to be investigated.

[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

Everyone reading this right now lives. So this right here is the solution to immortality!

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I wish we could make them think 🥲

[–] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

No, it really doesn't