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Originally Posted by puckedoff
Re: Red forever - Not sure how old you are but in the time before chicken pox vaccine, it was very normal for everyone to 'want' their kids to all get chicken pox and sometimes even make sure all your kids got it at the same time so you only had to deal with it once.
Obviously chicken pox is far less serious than the measles, so in that case it did work pretty well.
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Sorry, that does not resonate with me at all!!! That was not a common thing for any disease when I was growing up...so measles, mumps, whatever, I know of no-one in my community who purposely got their children sick. What purpose did it ever serve? That you can't get chicken pox again? duh. It should never be a good idea to purposely expose your children to anything that has physical consquences that come with contagious diseases.
And I am old enough to have watched hockey when it was only the Original 6 in the NHL.