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Measles parties is the stupidest thing I heard. It is not chickenpox (although even chickenpox instead of vaccine causes risk of having shingles once you get older), it can cause serious health issues and even death.
It's so stupid I literally think it's an attack on US citizens by hostile foreign governments
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hegseth-orders-halt-on-all-russia-related-cybersecurity-operational-planning/ar-AA1A1itr
Russia definitely tries to exploit this weakness but the underlying cause is the American obsession with eugenics as a cure to disease
The US does love eugenics, this is true
Sorry, was this meant to a different comment? I don't like the move Hegseth did, but I'm confused how this relates to measles.
That anti-vax rhetoric and "measles party" rhetoric are so unbelievably bad, I think it's psyops put forth by foreign governments meant to kill Americans deliberately. And with Hegseth removing large portions of cybersecurity, it's only going to get worse.
The chickenpox vaccine is relatively recent, and chickenpox parties were a good way to inoculate children who get only mild symptoms and very little danger from the disease compared to adults.
Nowadays, vaccines are 100% the best defense.
Measles is so much worse and it has never been a good idea to purposely subject yourself to that.
Yea I distinctly remember getting an Aveeno bath for it, and families were also having their other children around each other with chickenpox.
I know, that's what my parents did and I needed shingles vaccine.
I'm happy the vaccine is available for my kids and they don't have to worry about shingles when they are older.
The shingles vaccine for adults originally using a larger dose of the attenuated virus of the childhood vax. But now they have a new one that doesn't use the virus at all, it's called shingrx. It's not advisable to get shingrx or the original shingles vax if your under 50
Yep, the vaccine is recent enough that if you were born in the 90s or before, the vaccine wasn't available when you were of the right age to get it. I didn't even know we had a vaccine until probably 5 years ago.
Same, I only found out through the shingles sub I regularly visit, because I had shingles before 20
Was still pretty dumb, because now they have shingles for the rest of their lives. Just laying in wait for the right moment to strike lol
Well, the thing is that if you get chickenpox was older person it is much more serious, and there is shingles vaccine too.
I'm actually fine that my parents did it, it seems like there's upper age for the vaccine so I wouldn't be eligible, so it was either that or trying to be lucky and not catching it while being older.
Chpx vaccine only came out in 1995. Anyone before that had the virus already.
There was not a shingles vaccine back when "chicken pox parties" were a thing
Have had shingles twice, in my mid 20s and mid 30s, wouldn't recommend.
At least I got diagnosed soon enough to be medicated...
I had it 19/20 I was totally untreated by the time I saw a doctor, it already ruptured all the blistered and ooze all the liquid. I still have scars to this day, plus some nerve damage. It was a small rash, but it's numb there. My phn was pretty mild
I'm just gonna say, I got lucky with where my shingles hit and it suuucked. It was just my side. I have a friend who got out across their face. I got very lucky.
For anyone not in the know, if you had chicken pox you're at risk for shingles. I've heard it's shear hell and got the shingles vax.
I think you need hit a few times? I've done 2 in the last 2 years, no side effects. Except for, ya know, not getting shingles.
Had shingles at 20, definitely would've been worse if I had shingles later in life. Even with the chickenpox.vaccine it doesn't prove full immunity, people have been getting a wild infection and then shingles anyways, , it's just the initial chickenpox is less severe
I got it earlier than normal, usually it is given at 50+, I think it is because of side effects and in my case it were the worst I ever had.
I had 2 doses, first one was largely non issue, except I went to Costco next day to do shopping and day after I felt like I had a long hike.
The second dose really scared me, but next day I had a vertigo that lasted few days. I couldn't walk in a straight line, if I lied in a bed it felt like I was spinning. I thought I will end up disabled because of it, fortunately after 3 days it started to pass.
Never had any vaccine reaction this scary.
I have some theory about it; perhaps the vaccine amplifies signals from nerves or something i.e. in first dose I got tired more than I should (from just waking in store for one hour), with second dose, next day I actually went to some bounce castle thing with my kids and jumped there a bit and I think that triggered it.
So if you are getting the shingles vaccine best to just stay home and rest for few days.
On the shingles subreddit, someone got it before 50, and it gave them some kind permanent issue. Don't try to aggressively pursue shingles vaccine before 50, because there hasn't been significant studies on it. The subreddit got pretty anal and restricted the sub, because people were being called out for not having shingles, when they keep posting " is this a shingles rash, when it clearly its something else"