And a small but not insignificant number of kids (considering that exposure was nearly universal) would develop pneumonia, hepatitis, myocarditis or encephalitis. Hence, vaccination as a better path to herd immunity than "pox parties".
www.wdwmagic.com
I guess somebody forgot to carry the 1?
Did you read the post I replied to?
I never had chickenpox either, and therefore got vaccinated against chickenpox years ago as well.
Not to derail too much, but curious - did you have any struggles getting it? My PCP at the time was a heart specialist and didn't have easy access to it at the time. Took a while to convince him too but finally got a script and called around to clinics. Found only one who would vaccinate me as an adult.
This was (is?) a thing—he isn't making it up. When I was growing up in the UK, I remember it being considered normal and good when you caught chicken pox from other children, because it meant you finally had it out of the way. I didn't even know there was a vaccine until well into adulthood.
Still, none of this has any bearing on COVID.
ETA: Note the date of this article, which suggests that chickenpox parties are far from unusual in the UK:
The chickenpox party is over as scientists call for UK vaccine rollout
Deliberately sending children to catch the virus could become a thing of the past if jab is introducedwww.theguardian.com
I am older so I had the pox, it puts me at risk of developing shingles and the vaccine reduces that chance.
Internationally, the U.S. is notorious for being very poor at the type of testing required to routinely identify variants. Your data only reflects the fact that in some locations testing of variants in the labs is OK, whereas in most places, it is bad. So this distribution data you refer to tells you nothing about how "ubiquitous" the variant is. The problem in the U.S. is that the "private sector" is doing the testing and unless they are paid a premium, they have no incentive to generate accurate variant data.
I was born in the 70s and a kid of the 80s as an FYI. i just never had chicken pox. My spouse did though. After a third person I knew my age going to the hospital with chickenpox as an adult, I went and got vaccinated. So I'm very much of the generation that was around for those decades. Just we never had pox parties where I lived. My mom felt like you and never dreamt of doing it. It was something I heard of, but none of my friends ever took part of. I do remember when each of my best friends was sick with it though. Last one 6th grade with a 3 year gap. By even 3rd grade most had had it. I was just the exception. So far now I've been told no to shingles vaccine. Unfortunately being 40s makes me more of an oddball with what to do next.I am older so I had the pox, it puts me at risk of developing shingles and the vaccine reduces that chance.
This is the reason for the vaccine and the pox parties were active in the late 70's early 80's. I remember them being a thing and wondered why would you want your kid to go through the itching and scarring with the risk of shingles later in life?
People get weird notions that can hurt in ways they never imagined
Two-for-One: Chickenpox Vaccine Lowers Shingles Risk in Children
Immunization reduces the likelihood of a painful reemergence of the virus in kidswww.scientificamerican.com
So you’re insisting on a pedantic reading of my post rather than a sincere one. My point was perfectly clear. I don’t have time for silly semantic games.
Since Omicron has been shown to be less fatal thus not the boogy man it was initially planned, we need to return the emphasis to the known boogeyman man, Delta.
COVID is not the flu though.
Good news, literally anything being done to deal with Omicron also deals with Delta too. Win win there. It’s not like anything to fight Omicron would make Delta worse.
This makes very little sense, even for a conspiracy theory.
I think he is talking about the "there's a new variant. we are all going to die!!!" Covid that is constantly playing on the news channels.
Well "there is a new variant and the current admin is responsible" channels so yeah.
