• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Thinking this isn’t as much about gloom and doom as he doesn’t want his wife scared to death about her own kids.

    Didn’t they have small pox vaccinations in 1907?

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      1 month ago

      Googling around, it looks like the smallpox vaccine wasn’t administered until the kid was 1.