• bedwyr@piefed.ca
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    3 days ago

    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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          2 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.