What? Even though I was young (maybe seven when we began the iodine) I recall thinking what a stupid thing is was to be given iodine “just because.” Our parents had no choice. They had to allow it.
To this day, I don’t know the reason given to our parents, but I do know we were called out of class and one by one, were given two iodine tablets and offered a paper cup of water to get them down.
Back then, we were also given no choice in innoculations: we were called out of class, lined up, and given a shot until every kid in the school had been vaccinated. Only, my smallpox vaccination didn’t “take.”
It was only years later, when my son was small, that I had another and it put me in bed. No kidding. When I told the doctor about it, he said, “If there is ever a smallpox epidemic, you better plan on leaving town. If you get it, it will kill you.”
My life in a nutshell...if it doesn’t make you stronger, it kills ya! LOL!
They did finally admit to “venting” from some underground tests.
The reporters were left with the impression that it was like a puff of steam one would get from taking the lid off a pot of beans.
It was more like Old Faithful, only for hours or days on end.
I don’t know if my small pox vaccination “took”. I have no scar, but my mother made such a big hairy deal about how awful it would be if I scratched it and how I would be scarred for life and how horribly disfigured I’d be forever-after.
It itched like fury, but I was too terrified to touch it.
Thanks mom. No scars on the outside, see?