• bedwyr@piefed.ca
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    3 days ago

    Edit: This is true, and fun information, and everyone downvoting here is either a fucking sheep, or grinding an axe. End edit.

    One of the original prventatives for smallpox, the type of variolation that reached Europe from Asia and Africa, was to crush old blisters into a powder, and sniff up a line of it.

    Variolation is giving a small dose to allow the immune system time to get trained on it before it gets critical.

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          7 days ago

          Lol. No, I was not among the 8 people that originally downvoted you, but that will change now. How you go from my appreciative comment to “you don’t know shit” is beyond me. Have a good life, if at all possible with a skin so thin like yours.