When my kids were small--before there was a chickenpox vaccine--parents would deliberately expose their kids to chickenpox because they felt it was inevitable that all kids would get it. Better to get it over with, especially as chickenpox (as I recall) could have more serious side effects the older one was on contracting it.
This mindset does not apply to Covid. The woman in this article deliberately exposed herself to get the virus; she was not anti-vaccine, she seemed to trust her strong constitution to protect her.
There are many types of stupidity or ignorance rooted in stupidity.
Which reminds me--I need to get the shingles shots.
I got the shingles vaccination the same time as I got the 3rd COVID vaccination. My father-in-law had severe shingles outbreak on one side of his face and it was very painful.
I remember my mother telling me to go play with certain kids as I did not usually play with them. My mother was a nurse and had access to all information available. I remember doing this several times. Once when we were about to leave New Mexico I had the mumps, and no body wanted me around as there were many adults that had not been infected.
Adults never had chickenpox parties, kids did.
Considering in a vid I posted before, a high up Israeli "expert" regrets closing schools, locking them down. Should have kept them open for kids education he said.
Now, is he not condoning the "chicken pox party" theory by suggesting this?
Coronaviruses/ Covid-19 are here to stay, endemic. There is advantages in letting kids gain a natural immunity rather than vaccine induced it seems with covid consider the efficiency of these medicines and their short lived effectiveness. Especially considering no one knows what will be the end number for a course of covid innoculations for children.
By no means a settled debate but a valid one societies should have.
I am inclined to wait until 5 years of data is in before considering kids for inoculation. If they were at great risk, dropping like flies, a different approach. But they are not.
I just got my second shingles shot yesterday, and I am home sick today. First my shoulder that got the shot hurt like hell. It seems to be better now. Then I couldn't sleep last night, I had body aches and fever. I'm feeling somewhat better now, but I did take the day off work. I got a nap today, and shut the kitties out of the bedroom. They were greatly offended. But I slept for a couple of hours. The fever seems to be gone.
And yes, years ago I did deliberately expose my kids to Chicken Pox. On Thanksgiving we had dinner with another family that the kids had chicken pox. The middle child got the pox two weeks later. On Xmas eve day the grandparents were visiting, and we took the kids to the Seattle Children's Museum. It was packed. At dinner afterwards, at Ivar's, the oldest tells me her tummy itched. I checked and she had broken out with the pox. How many kids do you figure we exposed? The next day the baby (almost 2 years old) broke out with the pox, and she was really sick. She also got RSV and a couple other viruses in the next few weeks. We were waiting for her to get better so she could have surgery for ear tubes. She got them in April. In retrospect that was not the best plan for Thanksgiving dinner.
I had shingles in my late 30s. Definitely get the shots.
@Gwendolyn2018 No it is not. Mine was all over my genitals. It was miserable. I have heard of people having it in their eye. I can't even imagine what that must feel like.
@Gwendolyn2018 Good idea.
Some of those kids who were intentionally exposed to chicken pox developed shingles later in life.
@Gwendolyn2018 I got measles at the age of 6 and there was a brand new vaccine available. My mom later told me she was afraid I was going to die, my older brother confirmed that. I am partially deaf from the encephalitis I developed. I have a murmur as well. I'm 64 and I'm still here. Measles is no joke. I wish I'd been vaccinated.