Apparently you don’t remember your mom taking you to play with some friend you usually didn’t hang out with and the friend had funny red dots on his face and arms. That was your chicken pox party.
Chicken pox is about as trivial as Covid is to a kid, meaning it’s nothing.
Because my mom didn’t do that. Chicken pox inoculation has been around since the thirties
And we didn’t have polio parties either
Chicken pox parties didn’t always work and varicella causes birth defects when contracted during pregnancy.
My parents were shit record keepers and couldn’t remember whether I had had the illnesses or been vaccinated, lost my birth cert too. I got vaccinated or maybe revaccinated as a young adult because it was cheaper and more certain than a antibody titer.