Measles, mumps, and chickenpox were all just childhood diseases that cycled through our grade schools when I was a kid. Only things I was vaccinated for were polio, and small pox. Being a farm boy growing up in Missouri, I kept current on tetnus shots for nail and fish hook purposes amongst other asundery things. We called it growing up. Worst thing about chickenpox is the threat of Shingles in your later years. I’ve had both. The last vaccine I’ll ever get was the Shingles vax. Natural immunity worked for Covid. When you let in people from other countries you get in to what they brought. Smallpox was a scourge to our Native Americans.
Yes, that is the only vaccine I have received lately is the shingles one. My uncle had a horrible case of it so I wanted to prevent it. My sister has had it a few times.
I was born in 1947 and was the baby of the family. Whatever my siblings caught at school, they came home and gave it to me. I was just a baby when I got chickenpox. My mother said I was covered with them.
I studied the Civil War for many years, wrote a paper for college many years ago that dealt with medical practices and advancements during the war. One thing I learned was that young men who had lived in rural territories of the country, never attended school, and had little contact with outsiders, were extremely susceptible once they went to war. They were the ones who ended up dying from measles, mumps and other diseases, because they had never come in contact with those diseases as children, and the conditions of camp life often-time weakened them and their immune systems, thus making them prime candidates for those diseases.