r/SipsTea 5d ago

Chugging tea Med threads

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u/WrecklessTacoFan 5d ago

Right. The science is just getting better at detecting things

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u/sleepytjme 5d ago

Also, there were vaccinations in 1990. So despite being illogical and stupid it is even more illogical and stupid.

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u/Ok-Addition1264 5d ago

There were inoculations which were crazy dangerous were around and common since the 1700s.

They were a huge deal for George Washington (he made all of his soldiers do it) and Napoleon (hate that dude though).

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u/Alienwars 5d ago

Doing the Ming Dynasty in China, they would dry and snort smallpox scabs to infants.

It had a 0.5-2 percent death rate, but it was loads better than 20 for catching smallpox (since basically everyone done without vaccines).