[Politically Correct]

Or the alternative way to read this is.....
Just let the children die so us old folks won't die of shingles.

Huh?

[KC_for_Freedom]

Or it could really mean this: we don't know much about shingles, its painful and happens long after one has been exposed to the chicken pox virus. Anything we do to change the current situation may result in other changes we don't know much about. Its fun to have articles published.

[twigs]

No, it doesn't mean that. What it means is that as we force our population to increase their required number of innoculations, we are exposing them to other, unknown risks. I had shingles when I was 17 and it was incredibly painful, so it's not only older people who get it. While chicken pox can be deadly to a very small number of children, for the most part, it is one of those diseases that is fairly benign. Living is full of risks. Innoculating a relatively benign disease when there are unknown factors (as there always are) does not seem like appropriate public policy.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Truthfully, have you EVER heard of a child dying from chicken pox?

From the CDC site, "From 1990 to 1994, before there was a vaccine available, there were about 50 chickenpox deaths in children and 50 chickenpox deaths in adults every year;"

Fifty. Among the MILLIONS of children who got chicken pox. There are more children who drown in bathtubs. Chill out, you are starting to sound like the liberals.

BTW, all my sons have had chicken pox and I plan on exposing my daughter to it in a couple of years.