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Again, _everyone_ got it when we were kids. You can die of a cold if your body is weak enough.

shepardrtc 8y ago
But there is now a vaccine that can prevent it. One which has no other side effects. There is no reason not to get it.
dhimes 8y ago
I was raised as you were regarding this. However, I did have my kids vaccinated against chicken pox. Probably because my wife was researching the herpes virus at the time (she's a doc) and insisted.
Tepix 8y ago
A few people probably died.
cmurf 8y ago
Repeating yourself doesn't make it sound any less ignorant. You are not a good parent in 2018 if you're intentionally getting your kid sick with chickenpox instead of getting them vaccinated instead. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/index.html It is an ACIP recommended vaccine for at least a decade, which means all state Mediciad recipients can get it for free or for a low cost co-pay. There is no good reason why any child is getting chickenpox today.
- bane 8y ago
  Right, it's only been on the childhood vaccine schedule for 10 years. Most people don't know that nor that there's even a vaccine available for it. Chickenpox is such a mild childhood event that it's widely just assumed that your children just need to get infected with it and a week later they have lifetime immunity. Something like 95% of all adults today had Chickenpox as a child and most people have probably forgotten the event. 10 years for a vaccine against a generally mild week long childhood rash is not really enough time or importance to enter the general public consciousness and it's not really a sin to get your kids infected with it. You're judging billions of people with your own ignorance of their lives.
  - ryanmercer 8y ago
    >Right, it's only been on the childhood vaccine schedule for 10 years. Most people don't know that nor that there's even a vaccine available for it. Indeed, this thread is how I learned there is a vaccine for it.

But there is now a vaccine that can prevent it. One which has no other side effects. There is no reason not to get it.

I was raised as you were regarding this. However, I did have my kids vaccinated against chicken pox. Probably because my wife was researching the herpes virus at the time (she's a doc) and insisted.

Tepix 8y ago

A few people probably died.

cmurf 8y ago

Repeating yourself doesn't make it sound any less ignorant. You are not a good parent in 2018 if you're intentionally getting your kid sick with chickenpox instead of getting them vaccinated instead. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/index.html It is an ACIP recommended vaccine for at least a decade, which means all state Mediciad recipients can get it for free or for a low cost co-pay. There is no good reason why any child is getting chickenpox today.

bane 8y ago
Right, it's only been on the childhood vaccine schedule for 10 years. Most people don't know that nor that there's even a vaccine available for it. Chickenpox is such a mild childhood event that it's widely just assumed that your children just need to get infected with it and a week later they have lifetime immunity. Something like 95% of all adults today had Chickenpox as a child and most people have probably forgotten the event. 10 years for a vaccine against a generally mild week long childhood rash is not really enough time or importance to enter the general public consciousness and it's not really a sin to get your kids infected with it. You're judging billions of people with your own ignorance of their lives.
- ryanmercer 8y ago
  >Right, it's only been on the childhood vaccine schedule for 10 years. Most people don't know that nor that there's even a vaccine available for it. Indeed, this thread is how I learned there is a vaccine for it.