• moody
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    4 hours ago

    The chickenpox vaccine is relatively recent, and chickenpox parties were a good way to inoculate children who get only mild symptoms and very little danger from the disease compared to adults.

    Nowadays, vaccines are 100% the best defense.

    Measles is so much worse and it has never been a good idea to purposely subject yourself to that.

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      3 hours ago

      Yep, the vaccine is recent enough that if you were born in the 90s or before, the vaccine wasn’t available when you were of the right age to get it. I didn’t even know we had a vaccine until probably 5 years ago.

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      3 hours ago

      Was still pretty dumb, because now they have shingles for the rest of their lives. Just laying in wait for the right moment to strike lol