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Aristus

(66,307 posts) Mon Mar 14, 2022, 06:50 PM Mar 2022

"I don't need no vaccine. I trust my immune system."

These are almost always the same people who come dashing to the clinic begging for antibiotics when all they have is just a mild viral sinus infection.

Kind of like the patients who tell me: "I have a high pain-tolerance" right before asking me for Percocet.

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"I don't need no vaccine. I trust my immune system." (Original Post) Aristus Mar 2022 OP

"Then you should meet my friend Smallpox" DBoon Mar 2022 #1

Are ya sure that smallpox vaccine works long term? keithbvadu2 Mar 2022 #2

OK, that made me LOL!! Coventina Mar 2022 #3

The vaccine keithbvadu2 Mar 2022 #4

Darwin will be happy LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2022 #5

DBoon

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1. "Then you should meet my friend Smallpox"

Reply to Aristus (Original post)

Mon Mar 14, 2022, 07:05 PM

Mar 2022

You haven't seen him around recently since vaccines have eliminated him.

In the old days, before the 1700s, people would trust their immune system to deal with Smallpox.They had no other choice.

By relying on their immune system, 30% of those infected died. The rest were literally scarred for life.