But unlike insurance and guns, u will never know if the vax worked and u needed it. Were not like wolverine. Get 1 chicken pox, then it dissapears.

If you get vaccinated, and others around you get infected, you can kind of tell if it worked and that it was needed.

If you don't get vaccinated and contract a preventable disease, you'll know you needed it.

If you get vaccinated, and others around you get infected, you can kind of tell if it worked and that it was needed.

If you don't get vaccinated and contract a preventable disease, you'll know you needed it.

My parents have that mark on their shoulder.  So if someone weaponized small pox, the generation b4 me will be ok, but I'll be screwed.  They should give small pox a meaner sounding name like ebola, AIDS, Anthrax, etc...

My parents have that mark on their shoulder.  So if someone weaponized small pox, the generation b4 me will be ok, but I'll be screwed.  They should give small pox a meaner sounding name like ebola, AIDS, Anthrax, etc...

Smallpox gets its name from the Latin word for “spotted” and refers to the small pus-filled blisters that appear on the face and body of an infected person.

The smallpox vaccination was created by Edward Jenner based on his previous vaccination for cowpox.

The word "vaccine" was also created by Jenner from the latin word vacca meaning "cow".

There are worse disease names than smallpox.   

Interesting. . . Haven't heard a peep about this on the news and/or the "usual suspects" on FB. . .

Interesting. . . Haven't heard a peep about this on the news and/or the "usual suspects" on FB. . .

Islam is the new black.  Reverse racism, let's be extra nice to the black guy.  Reverse Islamophobia.  Go out of their way to accommodate Islam and don't show the bad side. Why you think Tommy Robinson and others were arrested in the UK?  No gays walking into a Muslim bakery to have a cake baked.

One of my earliest memories was going to the local health department for a polio vaccine. It was a syrupy substance applied to a sugar cube.  I got the MMR booster at the same time as well as a TB test. All the things needed to start first grade.

The county health departments were funded back then to ensure free (tax-funded) vaccines were available for all children.

A good way to know if someone is over 40 is the smallpox vaccine scar on their arm.  As of 1972, the smallpox vaccine was no longer offered, because we had eradicated the disease in the US.  The last recorded case of smallpox was in Somalia in 1977, and smallpox was officially declared 100% eradicated worldwide in 1980 After a successful immunization program.  Before the vaccine, 3 out of every 10 infected with smallpox died. That's why anyone with a vial of the smallpox virus could create an effective bio-weapon.  It would take time and massive resources to immunize against it again, not to mention resources to treat the infected.

If anti-vaxers have their way, we'd never eradicate another disease for fear the cure carries an "unacceptable risk".  Never mind the future generations who might have been spared the vaccine's effects AND the disease.

About the Small pox,
I was on world wide mobility and I received a Small pox booster in 1977 at McClellan AFB in CA.
Probably one of the last.
About all this Vax shot talk, anybody that was in the Military, Vietnam era, and went overseas has
had more shots than you can believe.  My shot record, a Yellow book, that I kept with my
military passport,  was so full they gave me a second yellow book.
You can't count a negative, so it is hard to argue with an anti Vaxer till it is too late.
Just like trying to convince an anti-gunner that a people carrying guns stops many crimes
from ever happening.
As to the Moslems,  America had better wake up.
America  won't awaken and the Democrats will suffer the most, as they
are dis-armed physically and morally against something that
believes their Allah has given them permission
to rape, enslave, and obliterate you.

About the Small pox,
I was on world wide mobility and I received a Small pox booster in 1977 at McClellan AFB in CA.
Probably one of the last.
About all this Vax shot talk, anybody that was in the Military, Vietnam era, and went overseas has
had more shots than you can believe.  My shot record, a Yellow book, that I kept with my
military passport,  was so full they gave me a second yellow book.
You can't count a negative, so it is hard to argue with an anti Vaxer till it is too late.
Just like trying to convince an anti-gunner that a people carrying guns stops many crimes
from ever happening.
As to the Moslems,  America had better wake up.
America  won't awaken and the Democrats will suffer the most, as they
are dis-armed physically and morally against something that
believes their Allah has given them permission
to rape, enslave, and obliterate you.

I entered active duty in 1984 and was given the same pocket-size yellow shot record card. Normal immunizations for everyone were
Tetanus-Diphtheria every 10 years,
annual flu shots,
one-time MMR if you can't document receiving them already,
3 polio vaccines/boosters if you can't document receiving them already, (if you had fewer than 3 in the past, they give you the difference)
plus any required for locations you might be deploying to.

For the Middle East and Asia, we received:
Gamma Globulin which has been replaced with Hep A & Hep B shots + boosters, 
Typhoid,
Yellow Fever,
Malaria,
and a TB test.

Now they have a Meningococcal vaccine to prevent meningitis. Never had that one.

Of all the shots I had, Yellow Fever was THE worst. They only gave it on Fridays under the guise of needing to use it all the day it was opened, so they scheduled everyone on Fridays. I believe the real reason is so you can recover from the fevers and other symptoms over the weekend without missing a duty day!   

On a grown man, I don't see to much risk with vax.  But on a child who is still developing is where I have an issue.  To me it would make sense when you pump the baby with man made synthetic stuff, it increases the chance of something messing up (autism or other stuff) happening.  Same reasoning why in baby food, it's not pumped with artificial colors or flavoring.  Let's not open the artificial coloring box either.

On a grown man, I don't see to much risk with vax.  But on a child who is still developing is where I have an issue.  To me it would make sense when you pump the baby with man made synthetic stuff, it increases the chance of something messing up (autism or other stuff) happening.  Same reasoning why in baby food, it's not pumped with artificial colors or flavoring.  Let's not open the artificial coloring box either.

Why are you still bringing up autism?  Do you have any evidence proving a causal link between the vaccine and autism? Any vaccine and autism?  Any other cause of any kind and autism?

Numerous studies have found no relationship between MMR vaccine and autism.

Claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism have been extensively investigated and found to be false.
The link was first suggested in the early 1990s and came to public notice largely as a result of the 1998 Lancet
MMR autism fraud, characterised as "perhaps the most damaging medical hoax of the last 100 years".[1]
The fraudulent research paper authored by Andrew Wakefield and published in The Lancet claimed to link the
vaccine to colitis and autism spectrum disorders. The paper was retracted in 2010[2] but is still cited
by anti-vaccinationists.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine_and_autism

Authored by Andrew Wakefield and 12 others, the paper’s scientific limitations were clear when it appeared in 1998.2 3
As the ensuing vaccine scare took off, critics quickly pointed out that the paper was a small case series with no controls,
linked three common conditions, and relied on parental recall and beliefs.4 Over the following decade, epidemiological
studies consistently found no evidence of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.5 6 7 8 By the time the paper was
finally retracted 12 years later,9 after forensic dissection at the General Medical Council’s (GMC) longest ever fitness to
practise hearing,10 few people could deny that it was fatally flawed both scientifically and ethically. But it has taken the
diligent scepticism of one man, standing outside medicine and science, to show that the paper was in fact an elaborate
fraud.

In a series of articles starting this week, and seven years after first looking into the MMR scare, journalist Brian Deer now
shows the extent of Wakefield’s fraud and how it was perpetrated (doi:10.1136/bmj.c5347). Drawing on interviews, documents,
and data made public at the GMC hearings, Deer shows how Wakefield altered numerous facts about the patients’ medical
histories in order to support his claim to have identified a new syndrome; how his institution, the Royal Free Hospital and
Medical School in London, supported him as he sought to exploit the ensuing MMR scare for financial gain; and how key
players failed to investigate thoroughly in the public interest when Deer first raised his concerns.11

https://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c7452.full.print

I entered active duty in 1984 and was given the same pocket-size yellow shot record card. Normal immunizations for everyone were
Tetanus-Diphtheria every 10 years,
annual flu shots,
one-time MMR if you can't document receiving them already,
3 polio vaccines/boosters if you can't document receiving them already, (if you had fewer than 3 in the past, they give you the difference)
plus any required for locations you might be deploying to.

For the Middle East and Asia, we received:
Gamma Globulin which has been replaced with Hep A & Hep B shots + boosters, 
Typhoid,
Yellow Fever,
Malaria,
and a TB test.

Now they have a Meningococcal vaccine to prevent meningitis. Never had that one.

Of all the shots I had, Yellow Fever was THE worst. They only gave it on Fridays under the guise of needing to use it all the day it was opened, so they scheduled everyone on Fridays. I believe the real reason is so you can recover from the fevers and other symptoms over the weekend without missing a duty day!   

Went in service 1973.
I also got Cholera and Plague shots
in addition to your Asian shots.
I wasn't even special ops,
I just fixed airplanes anywhere in the world.
Agreed on the Yellow fever.
The worst was Victoria A&B Flu shots when I rotated back.
14 hrs in the back of a 747 sick as a dog,
listening to Marines boast about sex conquests
and drunken fights.

I usually listen with some interest to Patriot Nurse, but I think she's gone off the deep end with her anti-vaxer hysteria.  oh well, I'll tune back in when she comes back to freedom, liberty, and gun rights.  Reid Heinrich's wife.