re: #215 Anymouse 🌹

I had a second case of chicenpox in 1993 (off work from the Navy for three weeks) and a second case of mumps in 2012 (thanks to an antivax parent’s Christmas carolling child) which nearly killed me with a 105°F fever and bits swollen up like oranges.

My mother suffers from post-polio syndrome, and my wife’s mother died from it after spending her life in a wheelchair. One of my great-grandmothers had shingles lifelong until she died in 1993.

I would dearly love to shove a cactus sideways up their anti-science BS ports.

Take a walk through an old enough cemetery and you see what life was like for children before vaccines.

My mother had measles and scarlet fever and chickenpox multiple times, and her father had shingles twice, the second lasting til the end of his life at 92. I remember being horribly sick with measles as a small child, being shut in a dark room for many days, but never had the mumps, thank dog. My husband had mumps in his bits, and it affected our lives for sure. When I got my first teaching job, I ran out and got the mumps vaccine, which was a new thing. Too bad they weren’t doing flu vaccines then, because that first year I caught every wave of it. The immune system is a funny old thing! Go Team Vaccines!