LOL @ Asheville North Carolina

[Iron Woode]

seems they are anti-vax and have a chicken pox outbreak to prove it.

https://nationalpost.com/news/world...-states-worst-chickenpox-outbreak-in-20-years

Cases of chickenpox have been multiplying at the Asheville Waldorf School, which serves children from nursery school to sixth grade in Asheville, North Carolina. About a dozen infections grew to 28 at the beginning of the month. By Friday, there were 36, the Asheville Citizen-Times reported.

The outbreak ranks as the state’s worst since the chickenpox vaccine became available more than 20 years ago. Since then, the two-dose course has succeeded in limiting the highly contagious disease that once affected 90 per cent of Americans.

The school is a symbol of the small but strong movement against the most effective means of preventing the spread of infectious diseases – like an island in the vast ocean of medical consensus. The percentage of children under 2 years old who haven’t received any vaccinations has quadrupled since 2001, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

even worse is that some of those infected will develop shingles later in life. That sucks even worse than chicken pox does.

I am sure people like Jenny McCarthy would be proud.

 

[IronWing]

In my experience, Waldorf parents tend to be anti-science, homeopathy supporters more than anti-vaxxer for the most part but obviously in this case, full-on retarded.

 

[JoeBleed]

I'm not surprised by some of Asheville people being anti-vaxers. I must say i was unaware of a vaccine for chicken pox. Nice to know they have that now. I got it as a baby due to my sister having it. That's my vaccine for it. hope i don't get shingles.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Every village has their idiot. Asheville is big enough to have a whole school full of them.

 

[dainthomas]

Would be nice if antivaxers just endangered their own health and not also people with compromised immune systems.

 

[BoomerD]

I'm not surprised by some of Asheville people being anti-vaxers. I must say i was unaware of a vaccine for chicken pox. Nice to know they have that now. I got it as a baby due to my sister having it. That's my vaccine for it. hope i don't get shingles.

Get the shingles shot.

 

[highland145]

Get the shingles shot.

This but it becomes less effective as we age...

You probably shouldn't bother.

 

[Zorba]

I got singles when I was three, just a few months after I had Chicken Pox. I've always wondered if you are still immune for life if you had it that young.

 

[highland145]

I got singles when I was three, just a few months after I had Chicken Pox. I've always wondered if you are still immune for life if you had it that young.

Doubt it. The virus is still in the nerve endings, I think.

 

[JoeBleed]

I got singles when I was three, just a few months after I had Chicken Pox. I've always wondered if you are still immune for life if you had it that young.

From what i was told when my Graddad got shingles, it can come back on multiple occasions.

 

[Zorba]

From what i was told when my Graddad got shingles, it can come back on multiple occasions.

Man, that sucks, at least there is a shot for it now.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Outbreak? Or are they just throwing a lot of chickenpox parties for the little ones?

Yes... Chickenpox parties are actually a thing.

 

[Zorba]

Outbreak? Or are they just throwing a lot of chickenpox parties for the little ones?

Yes... Chickenpox parties are actually a thing.

Anyone that would take their kid to a chicken pox party, but not get them vaccinated needs kicked in the nuts.

 

[JoeBleed]

Anyone that would take their kid to a chicken pox party, but not get them vaccinated needs kicked in the nuts.

Is it still a thing though? i remember hearing my parents and childhood dr. talking about them; but we didn't have the vaccine then. I must say, i'm glad i don't remember having to deal with it. I knew a few people that didn't get it until around highschool and it sucked for them.

I just looked up when the vaccine was created. it was created in Japan in the 1970s but wasn't approved in the US until 1995. that would be when i was in highschool.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Anyone that would take their kid to a chicken pox party, but not get them vaccinated needs kicked in the nuts.

They go together. They don't vaccinate the kids, then they purposely take them to get sick, so they'll acquire their immunity. It has some merit if you're a moron and not going vaccinate your kids, because the disease is so much worse for adults.

 

[Zorba]

They go together. They don't vaccinate the kids, then they purposely take them to get sick, so they'll acquire their immunity. It has some merit if you're a moron and not going vaccinate your kids, because the disease is so much worse for adults.

Yes, it had merit when there was no safe and effective means of preventing it all together.

 

[Greenman]

I missed most vaccinations. Had chicken pox, measles, mumps. Probably others that I've forgotten.

 

[Carson Dyle]

I missed most vaccinations. Had chicken pox, measles, mumps. Probably others that I've forgotten.

How old are you? Most of those vaccines came along after I'd had those three.

 

[Greenman]

How old are you? Most of those vaccines came along after I'd had those three.

60

 

[Carson Dyle]

60

I'm almost. None of those were available when we were kids. From what I read, the measles vaccine became available about 1963, although I don't know how widely at the time. Mumps, 1970s, chickenpox 1995.

I remember receiving the polio vaccine on a sugar cube at a young age - four or five, maybe - and it was kind of a big deal. Big event outside one of the local churches with kids lined up for blocks.

 

[kn51]

Yeah, sorry you missed the MMR regimen.

 

[MaxDepth]

And the terrible thing is that this is squarely on the dumbass parents. Poor kids saddle with parents like that.

 

[Greenman]

I'm almost. None of those were available when we were kids. From what I read, the measles vaccine became available about 1963, although I don't know how widely at the time. Mumps, 1970s, chickenpox 1995.

I remember receiving the polio vaccine on a sugar cube at a young age - four or five, maybe - and it was kind of a big deal. Big event outside one of the local churches with kids lined up for blocks.

Polio was given out at school where I lived. I remember standing in a huge line of kids waiting for my sugar cube.
What was the one with the four little prongs they stuck in your shoulder? Lots of us old folks still have a scar from that one.

Edit: Just looked it up, it was smallpox. They quit using it in 1972. I was a freshmen in high school.

 

[whm1974]

I'm wondering if will take large numbers of children to die to put an end to this fucking nonsense? Didn't Chickenpox killed young children every year? Or am I thinking of Measles?

 

[lxskllr]

Outbreak? Or are they just throwing a lot of chickenpox parties for the little ones?

Yes... Chickenpox parties are actually a thing.

That's old school. Like 1890s old school. I didn't know it was still a thing amongst the living population. Pretty stupid when you can get a vaccine.