Sora wrote:
LeKiwi wrote:
Vaccines are usually only 50-70% effective as well, so if everyone's getting vaccinated - or even half a population - then how are people meant to get it young and prevent problems from getting it older? Kids won't be getting it, adults will, and then there's going to be big problems and an increase in shingles and the probs that come with having it older.
I do think that currently children are the main cause if chicken pox spreads. I do not believe that adults overall have a huge impact on how chicken pox spreads. I know that those with shingles can spread chicken pox, but I also think these people usually keep away from children. (Naturally, by their age. This does not apply if they're also parents of course.)
And as an adult, chicken pox is actually a problematic disease. That's why we all root for children getting chicken pox right? So that they won't catch it as adults, when it isn't an as unproblematic disease as it was in childhood.
That's how my grandma knew it from her childhood. I'm really suprised that this is perfectly accurate.
Totally, that's exactly right - it's a childhood disease and you should get it in childhood. I've actually never heard of an adult with chicken pox, though I'm sure a few exist. In New Zealand we'll often still take a child to play with infected children so that they do contract it young when it's safer. Everyone gets their natural immunity when they should get it, and there aren't any problems.
I've also never heard of anyone with any complications from it, and I'd never heard of shingles until I came across the US vaccine propaganda! I also don't know anyone who's not had chicken pox. So that should be saying something.
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