再生1,059回 · リアクション193件 | My father has two scars on his arm, which I don’t have. He couldn’t actually choose, as the vaccination against smallpox was mandatory when he was young. He just had to, as my mother, grandmother, grandfather, uncle and basically everyone in my family born before the late 70ies. The massive worldwide vaccination campaign took place from 1958 to 1977. It took almost 20 years to defeat smallpox since the decision to fight it in the contemporary age. After 20 years, smallpox was declared defeated. Thanks to the “sacrifice” of several generations before mine, who will always keep a scar on their arm, the people born in the 80ies didn’t even have to fear this disease anymore. As basically for every vaccination, the pollyvax vaccine had side effects too and unfortunately, some could lead to death. Those are not the only vaccines to be mandatory. Here in Italy we all get vaccinated against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B and many others. I don’t know how aware we all are about how many vaccination we have been taking in our young age. I absolutely don’t remember when I got the shot against tetanus or the one against polio, but it’s in my body and it’s the reason why I can live happily without the fear of dying if I cut myself. What I know for sure is that all those vaccinations gave us freedom. Freedom of moving around, travelling, meeting other people without fear, freedom of doing the things we like. We live in an era in which the advanced medical science allowed us to walk without legs, talk when we have damaged our vocal folds, live with organs transplanted from other people. The successes of the medical world provided us medicines that are daily used and sometimes abused, that we all use. We fight the flu with ease, whilst people used to die out of it…we’ve reached a point in which some can decently survive with AIDS… …but we were free. Until 2020 and this new disease. Believe it or not, even if many were skeptical and against it, the vaccination campaigns gave freedom back to the world in the past. Believe it or not, every single medicine you easily take today has even stronger side effects than the vaccine against Covid. The basic issue here, is that none of the previous diseases were born in the age of the social medias. I’m afraid that probably, if facebook existed in the 60ies, my arm would have a scar like my father’s. Please, think of what I wrote and if you still didn’t, make a very little effort. Probably thanks to you, we all could get our freedom back and maybe the children of your children might live in a world without COVID. | Michele Guaitoli

My father has two scars on his arm, which I don’t have. He couldn’t actually choose, as the vaccination against smallpox was mandatory when he was young. He just had to, as my mother, grandmother,...