If you've never had chicken pox, you can't get shingles. By avoiding childhood chickenpox via vaccination, they'll avoid elderly shingles. Obviously it's much easier for a child to survive chicken pox unscathed than it is for an elderly or medically fragile adult to make out well.
From a statistics view, getting the chicken pox vaccine to avoid a, very real, nasty disease in the future makes sense. The other vax,...not so much.
kek @ chickenpox being nasty.
its two days of throwing up and fever. its a nothing burger. and unless youve got something else going on youre immune for life.
as for 'you have to have had chickenpox first' well plenty of adults that have had shingles without chickenpox would say otherwise.
either way its irrelevant because give it 6 months no one will ever trust medical people again in their entire lives (those that continue to trust them even now are literally the walking dead, theyre being sterilised and killed off and we were told it would happen more than 2000 years ago) and we can go back to being humans with non pharma compromised immune systems again and the only time youll hear about 'Karen' her heroic triple mask wearing and collapsed lungs and scarred heart from experimental gene thearapy again is during her memorial service.
Do you know how to read? I said that singles is nasty, not chicken pox.
You seem to be a slight dissenter in this thread. Which of the childhood vaccines do you believe in and which can be skipped? I never did the research so I'm really just curious on the topic.
I wouldn't say that I believe in a vaccine. I use math and primary literature to determine if the risk outweighs the reward on a case by case basis.
For instance, consider a healthy person who has a 99% chance of surviving covid, any vaccine administered would boost the 99%. In this case an experimental vaccine whose gov has a lot of reason to hide and lie about symptoms. Yeah, not worth it! Now consider that you are a 65 year old obese person with lupus. Your chances of being seriously affected by covid are much higher, let's just say you would have a 35% chance of dying. The vaccine could decrease your risk significantly. If the VAX works it could biologically put you in the same boat as the healthy 99% er. If it works. We need more data, it just doesn't exist yet. Other traditional VAXes do have data. If a Dr reccomends something, ask for more information and come back after you've read about the risks and benefits. Nobody should ever use salesman tactics to receive medical concent.
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