The topic, as I understand it (and as it is presented in the topic of this post), is “pox parties” in general and not the specific practice of buying a pseudo-vaccine from a stranger. Pox parties meaning a bunch of susceptible children go over to the house of a child suffering from the highly-contagious disease and almost certainly bringing it home. Overpriced contaminated lollipops aside, social networking does make it easier to do this.

I knew I was getting old but I didn’t think I’d be seeing my childhood referred to as “the middle ages” until, I dunno, at least after the iPhone 5 was out.