Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: quixotic
  • Music: Miranda Lambert, "Little Red Wagon."

Something silly and sort of scary for a Sunday morning.

Tags: making lists, mira grant, pandemic time, silliness
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pbrim

November 9 2014, 16:55:50 UTC 2 years ago

Um, Yay for being old enough to have had a smallpox vaccination? But I wonder it that's one of those that wears off without boosters.

And I've been double vaccinated for Polio. I changed school districts during the school year and had to eat those sickly sweet sugar cubes twice, because no-one believed I had done it before.

I also remember TB tests being given to everyone in the school every couple of years as just routine, as well as lining up all the kids in school for polio or smallpox vaccine, or routine vision tests and scoliosis checks. We don't seem to take epidemics (or public health in general) as seriously as we used to, maybe because we haven't had one is quite a while.

marycatelli

November 10 2014, 02:12:59 UTC 2 years ago

My mother remembered that my older sister was old enough to have been, and my younger not old enough. Me, she waffled about until after the day I noticed something in the bathroom mirror, and showed it to her the next time: "Say, isn't this a smallpox vaccination scar?"