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While I don't especially like the guy (he's the governor of my very state), the title is clickbait and the news is NOT ACCURATE. Fedriga is 38 years old, just

While I don't especially like the guy (he's the governor of my very state), the title is clickbait and the news is NOT ACCURATE. Fedriga is 38 years old, just like me; and, when he was a child, just like me, chickenpox vaccination WAS NOT MANDATORY IN ITALY, nor it was recommended. I was not vaccinated against chickenpox, either, while I did all recommended shots. It is mandatory TODAY, and he has already stated that his children ARE vaccinated. The only reason because this was news is because he has stated that he's against the Lorenzin law which makes vaccination required in order to go to school. EDIT: In the 80s there was no chickenpox vaccine available at all. EDIT 2: Fedriga's answer to his haters: https://www.facebook.com/massimilianofedriga/posts/10162034241635393 https://www.facebook.com/massimilianofedriga/posts/101620342... (can't seem to make google translate work on fb, you'll need to copypaste the text yourself)

cm2187 8y ago
Wikipedia claims the vaccine only appeared in 1995 [1] or 1984 [2] (and probably later in some countries). Either way a lot of the population could not possibly have been vaccinated as a child. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenpox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenpox [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicella_vaccine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicella_vaccine
- alanfranz 8y ago
  Thanks for the clarification. So, that's the reason why he got chickenpox in the first place. How many grown up adults get voluntary vaccinated?
xxs 8y ago
>chickenpox vaccination WAS NOT MANDATORY IN ITALY When he was a child there was no vaccine developed.
- alanfranz 8y ago
  Thanks for the clarification. So, that's the reason why he got chickenpox in the first place. How many grown up adults get voluntary vaccinated?
simonh 8y ago
I didn’t see what is inaccurate, he is an anti-Vaxer and he has caught chicken pox. Low rates of vaccination, for whatever reason, carry significant risks of increased infection rates. He’s lucky it’s just chicken pox, but the reason this should be news and is important is that people are dying needlessly from measles. Infections and deaths from measles are on the rise in countries with significant anti-vacination movements. This nonsense is killing people.
- alanfranz 8y ago
  Why is he an anti-vaxxer? He's got all his recommended shots, and his kids got those as well. He's against the mandatory vaccination law... but you should remember his party is an opponent of the party who introduced such law. It's more about politics than being an antivaxxer. And many countries in the world don't mandate vaccination - is it full of antivaxxers out there?
- manicdee 8y ago
  He’s not an anti-vaxxer. Also note that the NHS in the UK recommends against chickenpox vaccine except where there are indications that it would be helpful (ie: you spend a lot of time around immune-compromised people). Chickenpox is complicated: it is the NHS view that catching chicken pox as a child is better than getting it as an adult. It’s not like measles where catching it at all is a really bad idea.

cm2187 8y ago

Wikipedia claims the vaccine only appeared in 1995 [1] or 1984 [2] (and probably later in some countries). Either way a lot of the population could not possibly have been vaccinated as a child. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenpox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenpox [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicella_vaccine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varicella_vaccine

alanfranz 8y ago
Thanks for the clarification. So, that's the reason why he got chickenpox in the first place. How many grown up adults get voluntary vaccinated?

xxs 8y ago

>chickenpox vaccination WAS NOT MANDATORY IN ITALY When he was a child there was no vaccine developed.

alanfranz 8y ago
Thanks for the clarification. So, that's the reason why he got chickenpox in the first place. How many grown up adults get voluntary vaccinated?

simonh 8y ago

I didn’t see what is inaccurate, he is an anti-Vaxer and he has caught chicken pox. Low rates of vaccination, for whatever reason, carry significant risks of increased infection rates. He’s lucky it’s just chicken pox, but the reason this should be news and is important is that people are dying needlessly from measles. Infections and deaths from measles are on the rise in countries with significant anti-vacination movements. This nonsense is killing people.

alanfranz 8y ago
Why is he an anti-vaxxer? He's got all his recommended shots, and his kids got those as well. He's against the mandatory vaccination law... but you should remember his party is an opponent of the party who introduced such law. It's more about politics than being an antivaxxer. And many countries in the world don't mandate vaccination - is it full of antivaxxers out there?
manicdee 8y ago
He’s not an anti-vaxxer. Also note that the NHS in the UK recommends against chickenpox vaccine except where there are indications that it would be helpful (ie: you spend a lot of time around immune-compromised people). Chickenpox is complicated: it is the NHS view that catching chicken pox as a child is better than getting it as an adult. It’s not like measles where catching it at all is a really bad idea.