I‘ve lost count of the number of jabs that I had as a child. Dad was a consultant physician and the S.E. head consultant for infectious diseases. Whenever there was an outbreak of a disease, mum and I got inoculated and dad got called to the hospital where the patients were. From memory, it was in Dartford.
Sadly, smallpox was one of those diseases, although thankfully it’s now been irradiated, and over the years I had smallpox inoculations. They weren’t injections though. A drop of the vaccine was put on the upper arm and then the arm was scratched so that the vaccine entered the skin. Dad also worked alongside the W.H.O. and dealt with polio, diphtheria, and smallpox cases, as well as other unusual tropical diseases so injections were part of my childhood.
I just wonder what he’d make of this current pandemic but, if he was still alive, he’d have been “at the coal face“ so to speak.