Not sure if anyone here would know but what was the deal with the vaccine gun that they used on us back in the late 60s early 70s? I guess it was for polio but it could have been swine flu, who knows but it left that lifelong circle on your arm. Was that a micro needle application or just a quick way to give the vaccine to the herd as fast as possible? Do you all remember what I'm referring to?
There are some similarities between that scar and covid.
One of my earliest memories involves noticing a weird mark on both my parents’ upper arms. It’s a small circular scar, no bigger than a dime, that also decorates the limbs of some of my aunts and uncles. Why don’t I have one, too, I wondered, and what does it mean? If you were born before the 1970s, dear reader, you probably know the answer: That scar is
a badge of honor conferred by the smallpox vaccine.
Smallpox is frequently cited as the only infectious disease
humans have managed to eradicate, with the World Health Organization certifying the achievement in 1980. That’s thanks to a global vaccination campaign the WHO started in 1967. No matter how it was administered, the smallpox vaccine left a crater-like scar in the skin because it involved delivering a live version of a related pox virus into the body. The skin around the injection site could then get damaged and scab over, leaving a scar.
n the U.S., an especially bad smallpox outbreak from 1899 to 1904 led many establishments to ask to see a person’s scar as a type of early vaccine passport,
History.com reports. Echoing today’s shenanigans with doctored CDC cards, the anti-vaccination holdouts of the early 1900s even went so far as to “forge” their scars using nitric acid,
according to the Los Angeles Times. But with advancements in vaccine technology and intensive eradication efforts, the world saw the last natural case of smallpox in 1975
www.nationalgeographic.com
I believe I received my 'scar' in the 50's sometime while preparing for my first school year.