Those Vaccines.

...maybe they should've used "bigpox?" 

@chris Wow, just think if they wouldn’t have died they would be over 227 years old!

Just a second here....this "Bigpox" comment is riveting; it does make a person think, because if you go 2025 minus 1798 then..........heeey....do I smell donuts?

@kevins There are days when I feel like I'm 227 years old, maybe the vaccine is working.

@bob-jackman ... you never know.  Do some of those folks in that picture look familiar to 'ya?      😀 😀

@jack-dodds   Sorry Jack, I wasn't paying attention; I was eating 64 slices of individually wrapped American cheese....

@chris I'm thinking the kid is me.

Everyone who DIDN'T receive the first smallpox vaccine in 1798 has died. Makes you think.

I'll bet none of them died in a plane crash. So it would then be true that the small pox vaccine prevents death by air travel.

@chris @jack-dodds   Sorry Jack, I wasn't paying attention; I was eating 64 slices of individually wrapped American cheese....

Chris; do it your way...that's your prerogative.  From a time efficiency, nutritional and environmental perspective however, I invite you to consider my personal research findings.  If you just eat the cheese slices wrapped it saves about 30 seconds per slice unwrapping time, your gastric system breaks it down slower and fuels the body more gradually which minimizes BP spikes and artery blockages and stuff; plus 100% of it eventually disappears into the sewer system vs. fouling the landfill for eternity.  IMHO it's a no-brainer, like most of my research results.

@perrone1 I'll bet none of them died in a plane crash. So it would then be true that the small pox vaccine prevents death by air travel.

Tony; It is such a shame that  renowned air traveler Franz Reichelt wasn't vaccinated.......it may have made the difference.

@jack-dodds Oh yeah, Franz Reichelt, "ol' Splat", we used to call him, didn't believe in vaccines. He said it made his Cheeze-Wiz taste funny.

@perrone1 Yeah....critics at the time called his sensational aeronautic effort cheesy (actually fromagy I guess), but nonetheless Flat Franz's miscalculation was a major loss to the early aviation world; all his fellow enthusiasts were aflutter at his passing.  I suppose his legacy was that of a courageous but well grounded pioneer of flight.  His ground crew reported that his final words before impact were "Oh chute".

@jack-dodds HA!

He left a dent that'll be hard to fill!