I had the 2 week variety when a kid. It sucked. Also, had chicken pox.
Measles, chicken pox, mumps ... had'em all as a kid.
My brother and I had measles,mumps,chicken pox,and whooping cough.
My brother also got scarlet fever——we were quarantined.
That’s the way it was.
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I’m old enough to have had both kinds of measles, chicken pox and mumps as a lad. No vaccines for them back in the day. For most kids, these diseases were a week off from school in a darkened room (measles), lots of itchy bumps (chicken pox) and swollen glands under the jaw (mumps). No big deal, just a part of childhood, unless you were one of the unlucky ones that didn’t survive them.
Oddly, though, kids dealt with these ailments much better than adults. Measles can cause pregnant women to miscarry, chicken pox can kill adults and mumps are no laughing matter for adult men.
Vaccines were developed for all of them and the diseases are beginning to pass from living memory. Our Gang/Little Rascals would have a kid paint dots on himself to get out of school. People under 50 won’t get the joke.