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“Choosing to carry easily preventable transmittable diseases in public is not a right, nor reasonable, nor responsible. “

Chickenpox is not a health threat no matter how you try to say it is. Chickpox vaccine carries significant risks, especially for certain individuals. You can’t make the case that it should be mandated. Same is true of Hep B for kids that age; they are not even at risk and the vaccine carries significant risk.

“If Hillary agrees with me on that, that’s the one silver lining of 2009-2017.”

Good luck in your task of helping with her campaign. You and she seem to agree on the role of gov’t in people’s lives.

Chickenpox CAN have serious side effects, especially if it gets in your eyes. My daughter had a close shave with that, she had dozens of the pustules on her eyelids and around the eye socket. But even though she was only six she faithfully followed my instructions not to rub her eyes . . . . And chickenpox contracted later in life can be fatal, and certainly VERY painful because shingles will almost certainly result. My great aunt contracted chicken pox in her sixties, it went straight on into shingles. She almost died and was in excruciating pain for weeks.

That's why we all had chickenpox parties before the advent of the vaccine -- the kids have an easier time with the virus, and it's less likely to pop up as shingles for some reason. If you can't get your kid infected at a c.p. party, the vaccine will just have to do.