I’m that guy regarding polio. My Silent Gen mom would go on about how thankful they were for the polio vaccine and how as kids they lived in fear.
“Polio? Wasn’t that some medieval disease?”
I couldn’t begin to relate.
Got much the same talk asking about her smallpox scar. I’m not sure we were inoculated in the early 70s, the disease was extinct. (Mostly stopped in '72, looks like I barely dodged it.)
I have a smallpox scar on the back of my arm and I didn’t even know it was there.
We got the shots in school and I have faint memories of the Jet Injector. Most scars of people my age are on the side of the arm up near the shoulder. I didn’t have one so for years I assumed I didn’t get the vaccine or my memory of it was wrong.
Then one day in the shower my girlfriend pointed it out. It’s around the backside of the arm and hard to see in a mirror - but it’s there.
I feel kind of special having it as it isn’t that common these days.
I’m that guy regarding polio. My Silent Gen mom would go on about how thankful they were for the polio vaccine and how as kids they lived in fear.
“Polio? Wasn’t that some medieval disease?”
I couldn’t begin to relate.
Got much the same talk asking about her smallpox scar. I’m not sure we were inoculated in the early 70s, the disease was extinct. (Mostly stopped in '72, looks like I barely dodged it.)
I have a smallpox scar on the back of my arm and I didn’t even know it was there.
We got the shots in school and I have faint memories of the Jet Injector. Most scars of people my age are on the side of the arm up near the shoulder. I didn’t have one so for years I assumed I didn’t get the vaccine or my memory of it was wrong.
Then one day in the shower my girlfriend pointed it out. It’s around the backside of the arm and hard to see in a mirror - but it’s there.
I feel kind of special having it as it isn’t that common these days.