We've stayed away from a lot of the ever-growing list of the "standard" vaccinations, and our kids are grown with healthy kids of their own.
It started when they smeared something on one of our kids' eyes right after birth--and it turned out it was some anti-syphilis goo the nurse said was required by the State--since every mother has to be assumed to be a crack whore, I guess, so actual crack whores don't feel singled out.
The eyeball smear and some of the conventional jabs we learned were unnecessary because the diseases were impossibly rare, were only a problem if you hang around sewage and never wash your hands, or weren't a big problem if you contracted them.
Like chicken pox. Everyone in my generation got chicken pox. It's trivial, and then you're immune to it. Who cares?
“ 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 not trivial