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4. Ask the older anti-vaxxers:"What do you feed the little cows growing on your skin?"

Reply to BComplex (Reply #3)

Sun May 14, 2023, 07:29 AM

May 2023

Older people like me (age 75) will (almost)all have little smallpox vaccination scars on their arms. If they start going on about the COVID vaccinations, I intend to give them an eager smile and ask, "So, what do you feed the little cows growing on your skin because of your Smallpox vaccination? That IS what your 18th century cohorts predicted, you know!"

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On this day, May 14, 1796, Edward Jenner inoculated James Phipps with cowpox. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves May 2023 OP

LOL "And now James Phipps is dead. Coincidence???????" Tanuki May 2023 #1

As is every other person Jenner vaccinated. Wednesdays May 2023 #6

OMG...I hope somebody notified VAERS!!! Tanuki May 2023 #8

Cotton Mather, the Puritan minister famous for ginning up the hysteria Scrivener7 May 2023 #2

"The imbeciles will always be with us. " BComplex May 2023 #3

Ask the older anti-vaxxers:"What do you feed the little cows growing on your skin?" raging moderate May 2023 #4

I always thought that phrase referred to "the poor"? n/t Backseat Driver May 2023 #9

I once worked with a direct descendant of Cotton Mather jpak May 2023 #7

Watch your pronouns - (they) are capable of shape-shifting! Backseat Driver May 2023 #10

Washington and Jefferson were proponents. paleotn May 2023 #5

Had a aunt that had smallpox as a child in Italy in the early Javaman May 2023 #11

Thank you for reminding us of this fascinating information. niyad May 2023 #12