Chicken Pox parties were pretty common up until the introduction of the vaccine in the mid-90’s as the infection was less severe and easier to manage in younger children.

Chicken Pox is not anthrax, and conflating chicken pox with more virulent forms of virus’ seems as hysterical as the logic behind current chicken pox parties.

Vaccination does not guarantee the absence of a chicken pox infection, though in my own children the instance was much milder then if they had not been vaccinated and further, people who are vaccinated can develop shingles as a result of the virus used in the vaccination.

Hyperbole aside, there is no reason not to vaccinate your children.