A Reason Most Anti-Vaxxers Today Can Be So Stupid

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[dchill]

1. ... AND got them all the other life-saving...

... vaccinations in their younger days.

[Wednesdays]

2. they're. nt

[3825-87867]

3. ??? their!

as in "their" Grand Parents and Great Grand Parents were concerned!

[HubertHeaver]

4. spelled correctly in the original post

Refers back to grandparents and great grandparents of the anti-mask idiot.


My mother taught grammar to 5th and 6th graders. She was very heavy-handed.

[3825-87867]

5. Thanx

My son is an English Prof at the U of Arizona. I would NEVER hear the end of that if I posted "they're!" LOL!

[BigmanPigman]

10. I taught my 1st graders...

their, there and they're

by, buy and bye

to, too and two

They loved quizzes since they thought they were too smart to get tricked but they always did.

Sometimes my spell check on my tablet writes the INCORRECT spelling, even though I typed the correct spelling. Spell checks suck!

[Wounded Bear]

13. I've never met a spell checker that could out spell me...nt

[BigmanPigman]

15. My tablet is evil.

It needs an exorcism.

[lagomorph777]

29. Maybe yours has spellcaster instead of a spellchecker

[BigmanPigman]

32. I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

[lagomorph777]

28. That's the first thing I disable in a new device.

I call it the spellfucker.

[niyad]

18. I hate spell check. Mine does the most absurd things. In addition, it appears to

have been programmed by a rwnj male supremacist. Someone here on DU told me tht I could delete the damned thing, but I cannot find it.

[BigmanPigman]

20. I'm afraid to do anything with tech

since I am a moron and live alone so no one can assist me. The touchscreen app on my Samsung Galaxy is broken 80% of the time (apparently this is fairly common) and I Googled how to fix it but I am still too afraid that I will lose all the photos and videos I have of my little dog before she died. That would kill me. I have tried to send them to my desktop but the videos won't get sent for some reason and there are too many photos to even "share" anymore. Very frustrating!!!!!!!!!!

Whenever I need help with tech on DU, Earl G is always very helpful and spends a lot of his own time trying to help me out. He knows his stuff!

[vanlassie]

9. My mother also taught english grammar.

It is a lesson not forgotten, that’s for certain!

[niyad]

17. "Their" is the correct word.

Former editor here.

[Shellback Squid]

24. drives me nuts, calling another 'stupid" when misspelling their opinion

[niyad]

26. Just shook my head.

[Thtwudbeme]

6. and the one in the middle doesn't have her nose covered

So, maybe that one did not pass their genes on?

[BidenRocks]

7. You noticed that too? nt

[keithbvadu2]

8. And vaccines

[SouthernDem4ever]

12. so true

and measles, mumps, etc

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. The reality is, that in the 1918 flu pandemic

there was every bit as much opposition to mask wearing as there is now. It was hardly universal, and many cities, part way through that pandemic, decided to hold large rallies celebrating the end of the pandemic. Or churches held huge services, no masks.

Yes, the mask wearing was effective, I'm sure, when it was actually done. But it was not 100%, not at all.

Also, most little kids today don't have a parent with a smallpox vaccination scar. Routine smallpox vaccination ended in 1972. Plus, the scar fades over time. My original one is long since gone.

[LeftInTX]

14. I still have mine and a funny story about it.

My son is 29. A few years ago, hubby and I were discussing smallpox vaccine scars in front of him. Hubby doesn't really have much of a scar, but mine is visible.

My son says, "That's a smallpox vaccine????".....As if I was from some other world...LOL
He then says, "I always thought it was an old zit. I never knew that my mom was vaccinated against smallpox".

He says, "I've never seen a smallpox vaccine scar before"....And I reply, "You've seen one your entire life"....

It was sooo funny.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

16. Into the middle of the 1970s,

proof of a recent smallpox vaccination was required when coming back into this country from various other parts of the world. I travelled a lot, airline employee, essentially free travel, and kept on losing my yellow vaccination card, and kept on having to get a new smallpox vaccination. A minor nuisance, but after a while I stopped having any reaction to the vaccine because I'd had several in relatively short order.

Something else worth knowing. The last smallpox outbreak in this country was in 1948, and from what I've read, apparently a smallpox vaccine even fifty years earlier was still effective.

[LeftInTX]

22. I always thought it was "lifetime immunity", until I read about this, last year:

She was born in 1938. Her last smallpox vaccination was in 1966. She died of smallpox in 1978.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_smallpox_outbreak_in_the_United_Kingdom

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

23. Thank you for that link.

It's quite interesting.

I will say that I'm astonished that her 1966 vaccination did not protect her.

Here's something else interesting about smallpox. For a very long time, as in for several thousand years, variola major was the smallpox that was infecting everyone. It killed a significant number of those infected, and those who survived were invariably scarred. Terribly scarred. To the point where someone not scarred was automatically considered handsome or beautiful. I have no facial scars, and am an ordinary looking person, but a couple of hundred years ago would have been beautiful. Interesting.

Anyway, in the late 19th century smallpox evolved in two different places. North America and (I think) Africa. Variola minor. The death rate was trivial. No scarring. Those who came down with variola minor were not as sick as those who got variola major, which meant they could roam around and spread this version of smallpox. Which was a good thing, in that it was simply not as devastating. And they were forever immune to smallpox, whether major or minor. Some years ago I read that smallpox had changed and was on its way to being a childhood disease, like measles, mumps. or chicken pox of my childhood (and I appreciate the vaccines for those that have since come about), but the smallpox vaccine more or less shut that down.

Without the smallpox vaccination, smallpox would still have become a relatively minor disease. While vaccinations are beyond wonderful, the evolution of diseases is still quite interesting.

[lagomorph777]

30. Yes, 2020/2021 is a replay of 1918/1919

So depressing.

[IronLionZion]

19. They should teach this stuff in schools

Asian countries are quick to mask up during pandemics since they have recent experience with this sort of thing. The US has been relatively lucky for 100 years or so. H1N1, Ebola, Zika, etc. didn't require masking like COVID.

[FakeNoose]

21. That ... plus they got polio and measles vaccines in their childhood

They probably got the shots at school, if they went to school during the 1960's.

If not at school, then parents took them to the doctor's office for shots because their school required it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

25. I recall getting my first polio shots in a field near where we lived.

Hundreds of children lined up. My mother, a nurse, was one of those giving the shots.

The testing of the Salk vaccine was done in Catholic schools, apparently because they thought the kids would be easier to keep track of. The Catholic school I attended in Utica, NY (St. Francis de Sales) was one of those schools. My older sister was in a grade where they were testing the vaccine.

Alas, my sister's class was in the group that got the placebo, so she still needed to do the full immunization for polio.

At that same Catholic school, there was a boy in my class who walked with crutches because he'd had polio some time before. I know his first name was Tommy. I wonder what he thought of the polio vaccine. We moved away after my first grade year, not long after the Salk vaccine had been widely distributed. So I have no idea what happened to Tommy, or how he might have felt about the vaccine.

My father-in-law had polio as a child, in the 1916 epidemic, I believe. He ever after walked with a limp.

His surname was Newman, and I'm convinced he was related to the actor Paul Newman. Same blue eyes. My father-in-law was about 20 years older. If I were to show you pictures of my father-in-law and Paul Newman, you'd agree they are related. My father-in-law had a limp, as I've already said. In actor Paul Newman's later life, trust me, he looked and behaved like my father-in-law. In Paul Newman's last picture, I honestly could swear he was limping when he walked. Probably not, but still.

[The Conductor]

27. Personal History

It happens my grandfather was in combat in World War I, and lost a lung to poison gas.

Consider this: much of the 1918 pandemic was centered around the military camps and hospitals, and young people were exceptionally vulnerable, while older people were most often spared by that strain of the flu. So my grandfather had to survive military hospitals and 1918 surgical techniques that were just a step away from bleeding with leeches, and with no antibiotics, but got through a pandemic safely with just one lung.

I figure he hardly took his mask off even to shower.

[3Hotdogs]

31. ---- shows what the people in the photo know.

THEIR ALL DEAD !!! If they hadn't been wearing masks, they might still be alive today.

























Yes, Martha, it's sarcasm. And yes, "their" is intentionally misspelled.

[3825-87867]

33. Maybe...

The guy in the back with his arm around the woman kinda looks like John Oldman (The Man From Earth - 2007).

So...

LOL! (I think)