[JonPreston]

So did the vaccinated kids or non-vaccinated kids come down with chickenpox?

[rwoodward]

I got the vaccines and booster shots when i was a kid and still got chickenpocks. And all the other ones too!

[Blue House Sue]

Stupid Parents=Sick Kids

[cuban leaf]

I think that some vaccinations are a really good idea and others less so. It used to be that you had a few vaccinations as a kid. I understand it’s more like 70 today. How did us old people ever survive?

[thoughtomator]

So... is there any evidence whatsoever that there is a connection between vaccination refusal and this outbreak of chicken pox?

Or is the headline just another Fake News lie?

[Doulos1]

Asheville = Berkeley East

[Revel]

How many of these kids died? Zero- I thought so. Now they are naturally immunized for life. Big deal.

[CaptainPhilFan]

1st - It’s freaking Chicken Pox, not the plague, so trying to make people freak over it.

2nd - Hit a real Pay Wall at WaPo - couldn’t read the story. That’s a first.

[who knows what evil?]

Asheville? Religious exemption? Church of Satan? Town used to have a practicing witch as a mayor!

[spintreebob]

In the 50s 5 of 6 kids in my family had chicken pox. Probably 100 of 500 in the Ken WA school. Made the local paper, but not the big city paper. Not TV or radio. We all lived.

2015 I’m in Atlanta hospital for pneumonia. String of CMS $ chasing doctors pops their head in the doorway and diagnoses me for a variety of diseases. One Doc pops his head in the doorway and says “you have shingles. Everybody had chicken pox back in the 50s.”

Of course, I did not and do not have shingles. But the Doc knew the survival rate from chicken pox was very high.

This whole NC thing is overblown. So some people relive pre-vaccination. Big deal.

[Vermont Lt]

Chicken pox is not measles.

Sure it is not fun, and my kids got the vaccines. But it’s not the end of the world.

Now when you get into mumps and measles...that stuff can do some significant damage.

[bert]

Asheville is a queer and dyke sanctuary as well as home to Code Pink

The Tennessee side of the mountain is better

[Jan_Sobieski]

All 9 kids have a religious exemption and have Rock solid immune systems (by God’s grace). Getting ChiPox may be important for building other immunities. Trump was right! Many vaccinations are scams

[editor-surveyor]

.
BFD!

[minnesota_bound]

It is stupid to be against vaccines.
Medicine has made our lives better and extended our lives.