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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 8535157" data-attributes="member: 3400">Most people I knew got it young. I didn't get it from any kind of chicken pox party, my older sister brought it home from kindergarten and ended up sharing it with me (how generous of her). I remember having a pretty mild case. But I knew other people who hadn't gotten it until high school and college - and when they got it, it really kicked their asses.This was, of course, quite a while before the vaccine, which didn't get approved for the US until 1995 - so the first kids really fully vaccinated as part of their lifelong immunization program are late Millennials and Gen Z. So when I look back on it, given a choice between getting your kids a mild illness early vs hoping they manage to dodge getting it for the rest of their lives, I don't blame Silent Generation or Boomer parents allowing or helping their kids get exposed to chicken pox. Moreover, since the link between the two diseases was noticed largely by kids breaking out with chicken pox after an adult broke out with shingles, I don't blame the broad, not particularly well-educated in medicine public from not really considering shingles as an older adult as a likely consequence of chicken pox parties. Sometimes, you gotta give people the benefit of the doubt - most of them were parenting the best they could based on what they knew at the time and their own experiences - many from entirely before most immunizations.</blockquote>

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