[Black Agnes]

The stickler with vaccines is that they don't last. What's going to happen 15 years from now when kids/adults are told they have to go be revaccinated with a booster or risk getting *adult* chickenpox (far more dangerous...). This mandatory vaccination against non fatal childhood diseases is merely a money making adventure for a few pharma companies, at the expense of the rights of the parents to determind what is right or correct for their child.

[homeschool mama]

Exactly!

Back in the dark ages (for the over 40 set here on FR) all three of my sisters had chickenpox...I never got it...until I was 36. It wasn't a serious outbreak, thankfully. Got tested afterward and found to be now immune to the virus. My daughter caught it from kiddos in her kindergarten class...we stopped counting pox after 500...using meds for the fever and Sarna for the itching..she slept through the night and did quite well.