(April 19, 2019 at 11:05 pm)Fireball Wrote:(April 19, 2019 at 8:21 pm)Gwaithmir Wrote: My younger brother and I both contracted measles when I was in first grade. There was no vaccinations against it at the time. We were really sick for a couple of weeks. I came through it okay, but my brother suffered loss of hearing which got worse as he got older. He wears hearing aids in both ears now.
Measles swept through our little burg when I was 8, which would have been ~1960. We all got lucky- no deafness or anything out of it. The whole lot of kids (7) got it, except my youngest brother, who was born in '63. He got vaccinated for measles and polio by the time he was in queue, but he caught chicken pox when he was in his 20s and it damned near killed him. I hold the antivax people in high contempt for their stupidity.
Chicken pox can kick your ass if you are older. I caught them from my much younger siblings when I was 16. I was covered with them and my eyes were so sensitive to light that I spent over a week in the TV room in our basement so I could avoid windows. My cousin was 23 when he caught them from his kids...he was really in bad shape. My girls got them (still pre-vac time) just before their little brother was born...as in one still had some spots when I came home from the hospital with him. He got them at about age 4. Glad my grandkids have a vaccine available.
I had mumps at about age seven and that was awful.
The anti-vaxers don't give a damn that they are taking huge unnecessary health risks as well as potentially putting others in danger.
![[Image: MmQV79M.png]](https://i.imgur.com/MmQV79M.png)
