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Back in my day we got chickenpox and we liked it.
Back in my day, our parents made us get it, and it suckd pretty bad.
Yup. You got to suffer and itch for a week while bathing in oatmeal and coating yourself in calamine lotion.
Sooo much calamine lotion.
I'll never forget how it felt when they were popping, even over 40 years later.
Makes me feel like a relic that there was no vaccine for it when I was a kid. "Back in my day there was no vaccine for polio!"
Back in my day our parents had parties for chicken pox. The older you get, the worse it is.
There was no vaccine when I was a child.
I got it from my sister as a kid. I felt fine. She is six years older and was pretty bad with it.
My brother caught it first. He developed keloids from it. I was maybe 6 or 7 at the time. I had to wear mittens on my hands till it healed.
I didn't like it. 0/10 would not recommend.
People who had chickenpox as children are at risk of getting shingles in later adulthood, which is supposedly awful and very painful. There's not much to like about that.
As others have already noted, vaccination wasn't an option and parents would get their children chickenpox on purpose when they were young, because it can be much worse when you get older.
Had to look up the date of the vaccine, looks like it became commercially available in 1984, and licensed in America by 1995. If you're 30-40+, you were probably forced to have it as a kid.
I don't think I've ever had the vaccine. I did have chickenpox before 1995.