Then you've lived a very blessed life, health-wise.
Hubby had shingles. Got him to a doc within a few hours of onset of symptoms. Doc gave him a scrip for an antiviral and the outbreak amounted to an annoyance.
Neither of us are planning on getting a shingles vaxx in the near future.
Everyone is so literal. Geez, cool down.
One of my cronies was hospitalized for shingles and ended up scarred and blind in one eye and addicted to opiates. The wife of another had pock mark scarring on the entire left side of her face and has had many plastic surgeries. When I had shingles as a 20 year old, I was out of school for 6 weeks.
Now, it isn’t losing a child, but, you can’t get a vaccine for that and it sure is worse than Covid.