I'm old enough to remember when parents had Chicken Pox parties. Kids were deliberately exposed to someone with chicken pox, in order to get it over with.
I also remember reading an opinion by a doctor, who stressed that it was only an untested opinion, that allowing oneself to be exposed to some septic conditions and thereby ingesting "g…
I'm old enough to remember when parents had Chicken Pox parties. Kids were deliberately exposed to someone with chicken pox, in order to get it over with.
I also remember reading an opinion by a doctor, who stressed that it was only an untested opinion, that allowing oneself to be exposed to some septic conditions and thereby ingesting "germs" was good practice for your body in learning to fight more serious disease.
Wow! A party! GOOD parents! Where I lived, if someone got chicken pox or measles, parents made sure we all were sent to "visit" them while ragingly contagious. Worked fine. No one died or got the disease later. There is a reason they are called "The Good Ol' Days"!
The only vaccine I recall getting as a child was the polio vaccine. There may have been others. I had chicken pox and regular measles, and survived! This was in the early 1960s.
I'm old enough to remember when parents had Chicken Pox parties. Kids were deliberately exposed to someone with chicken pox, in order to get it over with.
I also remember reading an opinion by a doctor, who stressed that it was only an untested opinion, that allowing oneself to be exposed to some septic conditions and thereby ingesting "germs" was good practice for your body in learning to fight more serious disease.
I'm that old. And the entire neighborhood's children had chicken pox at the same time.
It was a badge of honor when I was a kid.
These days my parents would be in solitary confinement, next to the J6 protesters, for being "domestic terrorist".
What's funny is that when we had that party, I was 9, and thought it made perfect sense.
The best part of the party is my dad made us ramps, for our bikes, to see who could get the longest "jump".
Of course none of us wore helmets so my parents would be both domestic terrorists and Nazis if that happened now.
Wow! A party! GOOD parents! Where I lived, if someone got chicken pox or measles, parents made sure we all were sent to "visit" them while ragingly contagious. Worked fine. No one died or got the disease later. There is a reason they are called "The Good Ol' Days"!
The late, great George Carlin had it right...
Look up his stand-up "germs"...
Way ahead of his time...
I noticed that I wrote "antiseptic", when I meant "septic". Efforts to edit my comment did not succeed.
I'll pass on endorsing AI, until I see all the bugs worked out on plain old software.
Immunity is strengthened by sharing pathogens. Absolutely.
The only vaccine I recall getting as a child was the polio vaccine. There may have been others. I had chicken pox and regular measles, and survived! This was in the early 1960s.