[Svartalfiar]

“By their new definition of vaccine, anyone getting sick on purpose with anything is now “vaccinated” against it.”

That’s basically the idea behind the old practice of “chickenpox parties”. People exposed their kids to chickenpox with the idea that once they got over it they would have immunity.

Yea, but you wouldn't tell your buddies you got the chickenpox vaccine at the chickenpox party now, would you? Just sounds straight stupid, yes?

[Pelham]

It’s a distinction without a difference. The goal of vaccination is immunity. You’d tell your buddies that you got immunized by getting infected at a chickenpox party.

The practice was popular when there was no vaccine and chickenpox was regarded as relatively harmless. We now know that dormant chickenpox virus is what gives you shingles later in life.