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Your parent wasn’t advocating for forced infection. It’s my understanding that pox parties were a fairly common way to manage the spread of chicken pox. If you
by aidos 7y ago
Your parent wasn’t advocating for forced infection. It’s my understanding that pox parties were a fairly common way to manage the spread of chicken pox.
If you take some extreme assumptions; everyone will catch this, and you can infect in a totally controlled way where only the ones you wanted to infect were infected, you could definitely argue that controlled infection was the best course of action.
- dempseye 7y agoPox parties are forced infection. Children do not choose to go or understand what is being done to them. Their parents exert power over them to make it happen. You can argue about the morality of it, but the analogy with adults voluntarily getting infected is false.