I’m seek o this regular weekly ritual o ‘pat the lawn o the dragon for tae sleep in peace’ that we’ve done fur longer than we mind o.

Noo that I’ve been promoted tae heid o oor order ah’m daein awa wi it tae save the siller.

Aw these tales o dragons terrorising the country are jist fables. Wha’s ever seen yin ever. A waste o money this. We’ll build a new wing fur my office an open up bigger windies tae let light flood in. Aw them teeny flame proof slits an stoot thick wa’s are jist superstitious nonsense frae a glaikit past populace.

We’re forret thinkin noo.

Translate:

seek, seik, seeck: sick.

I’m sick of this regular weekly ritual of ‘pat the lawn of the dragon for to sleep in peace’ that we’ve done for longer than we can recollect.

Now that I’ve been promoted to head of our order I’m doing away with it to save the money.

All these tales of dragons terrorising the country are just fables. who’s ever seen one ever. A waste of money this. We’ll build a new wing for my office and open up bigger windows to let light flood in. All these miniscule flame proof slits and stout thick wall’s are just superstitious nonsense from a foolish past populace.

We’re progressive thinkers now.

Sik
The Scottish Word: seek with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.

Vaccination.

What’s the point of vaccination? Nothing happens. You don’t see or get those awful diseases you were warned about. You don’t become dangerously ill.

But the odds are you have caught them and your vaccine primed immune system destroyed them. More than once. And you never noticed.

Diseases that could have disfigured, disabled or even killed you. Diseases once so commonplace and dangerous that your grandparents lived in dread of illness.

Vaccine.

A vaccine is a relatively safe version, or part of, a dangerous and contagious disease that is injected into a person and triggers their immune system into action without giving them the disease.

That process trains the immune system on how to react. So when the real disease turns up it remembers and knows what to do and acts. Disease destroyed.

If as many people as possible in a community get vaccinated then the disease struggles to find unprotected hosts to let it multiply. Denied hosts it will wither and die.

Smallpox.

The global Smallpox vaccination effort made Smallpox extinct – with the world vaccinated it had nowhere to go and died out in 1977. No one needs to be vaccinated against it nowadays.

Other Contagious Diseases.

There are over 10 debilitating and sometimes crippling or fatal diseases that vaccines are used for. These contagious diseases used to be commonplace and caused a lot of grief and heartache for far too many.

If you’re not vaccinated and not been floored by any of these serious diseases like Measles, TB or Polio then you should thank all the vaccinated people in your community for your safety – so far.

Measles an Example.

Measles is tremendously contagious. If someone with measles coughs or sneezes, their germs can stay in the air for hours. That means it’s very easy to get measles if you’re not protected.

A major study published by The Lancet reveals that global immunization efforts have saved the equivalent of 6 lives every minute of every year – over the past 50 years.

Of the vaccines included in the study, the measles vaccination had the most significant impact on reducing infant mortality, accounting for 60% of the lives saved due to immunization. This vaccine will likely remain the top contributor to preventing deaths in the future.

Evidence Set in Stone.

If you want solid evidence of the effect of vaccines and antibiotics go and visit an old graveyard and look at the large amount of children’s names recorded on gravestones. Then figure out when in time these names reduced dramatically, it is quick. The stone remembrances are now predominantly adult names with very few children among them.