re: #263 KerFuFFler

When my kids were little there was still not a vaccine for chicken pox. When our younger son contracted it we encouraged our kids to play together so the older kid would catch it too. (This was common at the time because chicken pox tends get more severe and risky in older patients———-better to contract it when you are seven rather than when you are 15 or even older!) Before the vaccine I had even heard of people having pox parties to make sure that kids got it over with when they were young.

But if Bevin could have had his kids vaccinated for chicken pox then it was just cruel and unnecessary to expose them.

Yeah I don’t think it was available when I was a kid, or at least I remember schoolmates getting sick with it. I ended up getting sick with the chickenpox when I was 28 (I worked in a doctor’s office with lots of kids coming through, etc).