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haele

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13. Here's the dirty secret about "chicken pox parties"

Thu Jul 29, 2021, 10:32 PM

Jul 2021

Parents would send all the kids out for chicken pox parties to try to get all the kids in the family to be sick at the same time as young as possible, so as to reduce the chance of one of them getting the pox if one hadn't gotten it yet, or if they had gotten it, they won't get shingles later on. The older siblings typically suffered worse in large families.
Subsequent kids would not go to these parties, and would often be kept out of school to ensure that "one time" run through the family would be it.

Chicken pox is worse the older you are, it could be fatal for an adult.

I had a mild case that lasted 3 days; my younger brother was down for two weeks.

If delta COVID is as contagious as chicken pox, a "COVID" party could be fatal to 1 in 20 participants.

Haele

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Delta Variant Spreads as Easily as Chickenpox [View all] applegrove Jul 2021 OP

Therefore an R0 of 10-12, roughly five times the original model Strelnikov_ Jul 2021 #1

Everyone used to get chicken pox over time, before the vaccine. Over years, applegrove Jul 2021 #2

Yep. This is a whole new shit sandwich. Strelnikov_ Jul 2021 #4

I just looked it up. Marius25 Jul 2021 #14

Hmmm. I don't remember chickenpox spreading all marybourg Jul 2021 #3

It was rare for someone to make it out of childhood w/out having had chicken applegrove Jul 2021 #5

But parents had to ensure their kids got it, by taking advantage marybourg Jul 2021 #7

I got it first greenjar_01 Jul 2021 #10

I actually made it through childhood w/ out coming down w/ it. smirkymonkey Jul 2021 #9

You obviously had strong immunity as a kid. We did too. Plus mom being a doctor would applegrove Jul 2021 #12

Pretty much my whole elementary school class got chicken pox in '78 Withywindle Jul 2021 #20

Here's the dirty secret about "chicken pox parties" haele Jul 2021 #13

I had chicken pox as a kid. Then i had shingles as a teen. It was a organic applegrove Jul 2021 #21

Anti-vaxx crowds hears this and thinks: oh so, COVID parties? underpants Jul 2021 #6

I think they already came up with that one, back when it first started. smirkymonkey Jul 2021 #11

Next shoe to drop will be CDC backtracking on the need for a booster shot crimycarny Jul 2021 #8

Hope they get their head connected to their ass on this boy howdy quick Strelnikov_ Jul 2021 #16

Israel will begin booster shots this Sunday for those over 60 womanofthehills Jul 2021 #17

I just saw that crimycarny Jul 2021 #18

Thatll be fun in a month when we put 50 million kids back in classrooms... Volaris Jul 2021 #15

+1 uponit7771 Jul 2021 #19

And many won't even have masks requirements. LisaL Jul 2021 #22