Chickenpox??? My god, the horror...
I’m sure more people die from the vaccine than the disease.
Yes, indeed, one of the horrors of chickenpox is shingles in your elder years, another horror is contracting the disease while you are pregnant and giving birth to an autistic child (real autism) or, another horror, testicular atrophy with the inability to father children. If an adult who is not immune is exposed to a child with chickenpox, the resulting illness can be VERY serious and possibly fatal. So yes, I agree with you, it is horrible not to vaccinate your child against chickenpox. I do agree, however, that the way we routinely vaccinate children now is not ideal, and if I were a young parent, I would insist that my child’s vaccinations be spaced out much more than they are, the way it used to be done.
For some people it IS a horror:
Serious complications from chickenpox include
bacterial infections of the skin and soft tissues in children including Group A streptococcal infections
pneumonia
infection or inflammation of the brain (encephalitis, cerebellar ataxia)
bleeding problems
blood stream infections (sepsis)
dehydration
Some people with serious complications from chickenpox can become so sick that they need to be hospitalized. Chickenpox can also cause death.
Some deaths from chickenpox continue to occur in healthy, unvaccinated children and adults. Many of the healthy adults who died from chickenpox contracted the disease from their unvaccinated children.
Yep - when I was a kid and someone got them, the Moms would hold a party to expose all the kids to it to get it done and over with...