“ Like chicken pox. Everyone in my generation got chicken pox. It’s trivial, and then you’re immune to it. Who cares?”
Sadly, though it’s trivial for many, it isn’t trivial for everyone - pneumonia, encephalitis, subsequent bacterial skin infection, etc.
Vaccination against chickenpox (varicella/zoster) also greatly reduces the risk of getting shingles later in life.
Chicken pox is trivial for almost everyone. Of course there are unfortunate immune compromised children for whom any illness can potentially be deadly; but they are a very small fraction of the general population.
As for shingles, it is easily cured by an adequate amount of vitamin C. That was published in 1950 by Dr Mohamed Zureick ( Zureick M. [Therapy of herpes and herpes zoster with intravenous vitamin C.] J Prat Rev Gen Clin Ther. 1950 Nov 30;64(48):586. PMID: 14908970.) Dr Zureick reported curing shingles in 327 patients with vitamin C within 72 hours. The very large problem with vitamin C as a drug is its extreme lack of profit for Big Pharma.