We've been invited to several pox parties, but my husband is opposed to deliberate exposure, so we've never gone.
So you'd rather happenstance exposure when the kid is 16 in a foreign country like me? Or when your daughter is 33 and pregnant like my uncle's sister?
Post by alleinesein on Jun 19, 2012 23:14:20 GMT -5
And that pic just showed up in my FB feed. Based on the people I know that "like" that business the pic totally doesnt surprise me.
I had the chicken pox when I was 5; doctor said it was the worse case he had ever seen. I ended up giving them to my dad. My poor mom had to deal with both of us at the same time.
I had to be hospitalized for CP when I was six. I was at risk for seizures, stroke, and death because my fever got so high. These people are idiots and I just hope none of her children have the same reaction I did.
"The chicken pox vaccine was created by big pharmaceutical corps to make money. Employers were losing money having parents miss out on wok to take care of their child with chicken pox for a week to 2 weeks at a time. SO money talked and the vaccine was created to save money to employers so that they no longer had to miss wok to take care of their chicken pox kids. Hello big corporate America."
There is a tiny bit of truth in that: the vaccine was originally developed for children with cancer or other immune problems who were at higher risk of complications from chicken pox. The CDC rejected the vaccine as part of the required vaccination schedule back in the early 80s, saying that it wasn't cost-effective to require it for all children because the medical costs of chicken pox didn't justify the cost of the vaccine. It was only later when the cost of parents taking off work to care for sick children was added into the equation that the vaccine was then considered "cost effective" and ended up on the schedule.
We've been invited to several pox parties, but my husband is opposed to deliberate exposure, so we've never gone.
I can see how there would be a cost/benefit analysis. I mean, as stated before, few children die or have complications from chicken pox. When the varicella vaccine first came out, I think that's why so many people my age and older rolled their eyes. We alllll had it as kids. But some people DO die or have complications.
Clearly, there's a reason things like polio and diphtheria were developed into vaccines before chicken pox.
Doesn't the government subsidize vaccine production, though, so that they aren't dependent on cost/benefit analysis?